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Our Top Ten posts of 2015

It’s that time of year again! Happy new year! We’ve been here nearly ten years, long enough to establish our own traditions, and this post is one of them. It’s a statistical way to reflect on the year’s events, and to thank the amazing community that has grown up about the site, for whom we owe the numbers we report below.

During this past year we had over 12.3 million visits to the site. This was down from last year’s visits, which were fueled by the Israeli atrocity in Gaza, but up 50% from 2013.

In the last year we published 1,800 stories; here are our ten most-viewed posts of the last year:

  1. Angela Merkel makes a 14-year old Palestinian girl cry by telling her she is not welcome in Germany, by Allison Deger — 322,809 views
  2. Palestinian Harry Potter fan challenges J. K. Rowling on BDS using lessons from Hogwarts, by Mia Oudeh — 107,767 views
  3. Israel turns off power to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the dead of winter, by Annie Robbins — 97,533 views
  4. Executed: Dania Ersheid, 17, from Hebron, by Annie Robbins — 82,435 views
  5. Senator who spearheaded letter to Iran got $1 million from Kristol’s ‘Emergency C’tee for Israel’, by Philip Weiss — 81,432 views
  6. Night of horror at Ben Gurion airport for two French music students, by Philomene Constant and Bastien Anthoine — 77,137 views
  7. ‘This is our Israel, this is for the Jews. No Palestinian should come to Israel’: A Palestinian-American’s story of being detained at Ben Gurion airport, by George Khoury — 63,926 views
  8. Obama tells Americans it is ‘abrogation of my constitutional duty’ to defer to Israel on Iran Deal, by Philip Weiss
  9. Why I am not Charlie, by Scott Long — 56,619 views
  10. US only country to oppose UN holding Israel accountable for war crimes, yet again, by Ben Norton — 51,596 views

We also published over 74,000 comments. We are still waiting on the list of prolific commenters; we’ll get to those stats when we have them.

Our readers were around the world, though concentrated in the U.S.

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Firstly , thanks to all the staff at MW and the contributors for making this mine of valuable information available to us here in Ireland.You save us so much effort by not having to scan numerous sources on a daily basis, to get the facts about Israel.I really do appreciate the monumental contribution you all make.I want to especially thank Kate , (apologies for singling one person out) who so tirelessly keeps us informed of the daily abuses committed against the Palestinian People by Israel.This is an extremely valuable source when trying to win over those who are sitting on the fence.Unsurprisingly , so many are shocked by the level of brutality visited by Israel on Palestinians and winning their support is made all the more easy.Kate does this in spite of the apparent low level of comments but Annie once told me the number of readers is high and that clearly is the most important factor.

On the issue of best posts and highest number of comments , would it be possible , given the inability of zionists to be original , to create a category named , “most original post by a zionist contributor”.

Finally , best wishes to MW for 2016 and may this be the year when the MSM gets it,s act together and ushers in an era of “honest ” and balanced journalism such as we see at MW.

PS , proud to note little ole Ireland racked up 124,793 reads.

What were the articles most commented on and for the future is there a way to check how many page views an essay gets?

I admire Angela Merkel. She has the guts to say to the electorate what she thinks should be done (“wir schaffen dass”) instead of being a slave to opinion polls about hostility to taking in refugees. Growing up as a daughter of a minister in East Germany must have been hard, and it seems to have built her character.