Terrific young Israeli journalists are indispensable By James North October 17, 2011 15 Some of the young Israeli journalists who started the vital web-based magazine 972mag.com are in…
Two strikes for Ethan Bronner; does he get a third? By James North September 25, 2011 16 Once again, the New York Times’s public editor has taken the paper’s Jerusalem bureau chief,…
‘Liberal Orientalism’ is also misleading By James North September 9, 2011 29 Liberal Orientalism can be just as misguided as the more conservative variety. One recent example,…
Shamai Leibowitz, a moral giant By James North September 6, 2011 42 Daily newspapers are supposed to put the most important news right at the top. But…
Bad interventions, and a few good ones– which was Libya? By James North August 28, 2011 42 The Qaddafi family is apparently about to fall in Libya, and I am still not…
‘NYT’ ‘analysis’ buries connection between protests and settlement project By James North August 6, 2011 17 Did you see Ethan Bronner’s analysis of the tent protests in the New York Times…
Richard Achi should not exist (but he does, in Cote d’Ivoire) By James North May 12, 2011 1 When you see a picture of an African man in the news, he is often…
Central Africa’s horrors, without the Orientalism By James North May 6, 2011 6 One of the most powerful scenes in Jason K. Stearns’s outstanding new book about the…
A question for our pro-Israel visitors . . . By James North April 25, 2011 664 . . . Do you really think, if a 2-state solution is agreed on, that…
Orientalism in sub-Saharan Africa By James North April 9, 2011 23 One of our regular targets here at the site is Orientalism — the misguided and…
