ASSOCIATED MESS: How the AP Botched Its Investigation of Civilian Deaths in the Israel-Hamas War Posed photographs. Intentional miscategorizations. Buried corrections. One-sided sourcing. Cherry-picked quotes. And a just-plain-wrong conclusion about “most” Gaza casualties being civilians. This exposé was first published on March 10, 2015, as a cover story in the New York Observer, and later […]
Homophobic, Racist, Sexist, ‘Take Xanax’ [Part 2] Reactions To My Open Letter To NYU’s President On ASA’s Israel Boycott Click the link to view Part 1. If you can’t rebut the facts, smear. That’s how I’d sum up the reaction of the American Studies Association and the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement to my Open Letter to New […]
Open Letter To NYU’s President [Part 1] Why The American Studies Assn.’s Israel Boycott Makes Me Ashamed To Be An Alumnus Click the link to view Part 2. This article was published on January 14, 2014, at Forbes.com, with editorial assistance from Gary Weiss. Dear NYU President John Sexton, I’m a journalism graduate of […]
There He Goes Again: Egypt’s Morsi Stuns U.S. Senators In Meeting With ‘Jews-Control-Media’ Slur [Part 3] Click the links to view Part 1 and Part 2. This is the third and final piece on the topic. Published on Jan 25, 2013. Versions of these articles originally appeared in Forbes.com on January 11, 15 and 25, 2013. […]
NEWS FLASH: JEWS ARE ‘APES & PIGS‘. So Why Is Egypt’s Morsi The Elephant In America’s Newsrooms? [Part 1] Click the links to view Part 2 and Part 3. Versions of these stories were published in Forbes on Jan 11, 15, and 25, 2013 Last Friday, the sitting president of Egypt—the world’s 15th most […]
PEACE THROUGH PROFITS: Inside The Quiet Tech Ventures That Are Reshaping The Israeli-Palestinian World This article appeared online in Forbes on July 24, 2013, and as the cover story in the magazine’s August 11, 2013 print edition. Published in Mideast Dig in 2016. Even by Middle East standards, the scene in a Dead Sea restaurant, […]