Donna Rosenthal gives some examples of the astonishing ignorance of many media figures about Israel. (The Forward)
The French Court of Appeals overturned the libel conviction of Philippe Karsenty, who had asserted that France 2 and its Middle East correspondent Charles Enderlin’s anti-Israel reporting on the death of the Palestinian child Mohammed al-Dura in the Gaza Strip in 2000 was “a fake news report, … a staged hoax.� The ruling doesn’t say that Karsenty’s charges were correct. (Jerusalem Post)
An analysis of how the British press reported on Israel’s 60th anniversary. (Religious Intelligence)
Israel’s Knesset struggles with a bill designed to allow the government to filter websites, quite possibly blocking US news sites. (Haaretz)
Knesset
Pronounced: k’NESS-et, Origin: Hebrew, Israel’s parliament, comprising 120 seats.
