Tom Gross – Mideast Media Analysis (original) (raw)
A selection of TV interviews
The Media & distorted news
- * After CNN and BBC staffers praise Hitler, Tom Gross debates media bias with ex-AP Mideast editor
- * Is Israel treated differently by the foreign press? The question of group think & ‘Fake News’
- * Why NY Times obsessed with Israel, not with West Papua (half million dead)?
- * Tom Gross: the role of Memri in Mideast coverage
- * A lecture on media coverage of Israel & poor Israeli PR
The Arab world
- * The Kurds deserve their own state
- * If only Yazidis, Baluchis or Rohingya Muslims were so lucky
- * “Near total extinction of an ancient civilisation”
- * The media coverage of the Arab world
- * Did Erdogan deliberately let ISIS loose?
America & the Mideast
- * If only Yazidis, Baluchis or Rohingya Muslims were so lucky
- * Might Trump & Netanyahu help create a Palestinian state?
- * Trump: Israel, Palestine, Syria & “1984”
- * “Someone had to enforce Obama’s red line”
- * Can Trump deliver a two state solution?
- * Should Trump be banned from the UK?
Britain & the Mideast
- * The Queen embraced Assad, now finally Israel gets a royal visit
- * Should UK apologize for the Balfour Declaration?
- * Hidden motives as minister fired?
- * The obsession with Palestine
- * Corbyn’s dangerous foreign policy
Britain under attack
Brexit
- * Tom Gross on Boris Johnson
- * ‘Time to withdraw article 50’
- * The final end of the British Empire
- * Theresa May’s election mandate
- * The dangers of Brexit
- * The Brexit vote (in Arabic)
Israel & BDS
- * Israel & Arab states bypass Palestinians to make peace
- * Tom Gross on Benny Gantz (Israel TV)
- * Tom Gross on Benny Gantz (BBC Arabic)
- * Will Bibi stay in power? (BBC’s Lyse Doucet with TG)
- * Are cultural boycotts of Israel counter-productive?
- * Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s anti-boycott letter
- * The role of MEMRI in Mideast coverage
- * The Mohammed Al Dura video controversy
The future
A selection of articles
Media criticism
The New York Times
The BBC
- * Living in a Bubble: The BBC’s very own foreign policy
- * The BBC discovers ‘terrorism,’ briefly. Suicide bombing seems different when closer to home
- * London at a standstill: Is the BBC really “pro-Israel”?
UK media’s global reach
- * New Prejudices for Old: The European press and Israel
- * Jeningrad: What the British media said
- * The Guardian acknowledges a degree of anti-Semitism
- * Trump: A different reaction when Israel was described as “shitty”
News or Fake news?
- * Reuters: An agency that won’t call a terrorist a terrorist
- * Anti-Semitism at Le Monde and beyond
- * Media Missiles: The media in service of Hizbullah
- * Is the ‘media intifada’ running out of steam?
Terrorism and radicalism
- * The Forgotten Rachels: Eight girls named Rachel
- * The remarkable story of the Kinneret Chaya
- * “A shitty little country”: Prejudice & Abuse in Paris & London
- * Living with terror in London and Israel. A study in contrasts
- * “Barbarians of Europe”: The murder of Ilan Halimi
- * The Mohammed Cartoons: To be or not to be
- * India: Terrorists or doctors?
- * Denmark: Nothing random here
- * Londonistan: “I’d rather take ricin than publish this”
- * The coming Eurabia? The threat Europe might face from within
Palestinian issues
- * The good news about Gaza you will hear on Al Jazeera but not in western media
- * Move the 2022 World Cup from Qatar to Gaza?
- * Moderate students at a Palestinian university?
- * Quietly building Palestine
- * Obama: Too much Middle East peace processing?
- * Gaza’s luxury new malls
- * Gaza’s fine dining and Olympic-size swim pools
- * Mahmoud Abbas: Has anything really changed?
- * Yasser Arafat, “the stuff of legends”
Israeli issues
- * Could Trump Mideast peace plan work?
- * Netanyahu defies his critics again
- * Israel-India: Bibi & Modi frolic in the Med
- * Soccer killing fields: singling out Israel
- * Ariel Sharon, “A colossus of our time”
- * The Mossad
- * Al Jazeera praises IDF
- * The cases of Noam Chomsky & Elton John
- * Crude diatribes and wishful thinking: A Pulitzer Prize winner attacks Israel
- * Elvis in Jerusalem. The blaming of Israel from within
The Arab world, Iran & Turkey
Syria
- * The media has long covered up for Assad
- * The Syrian Uprising
- * Syrian refugees: “May God bless Israel”
The Kurds
Iran
- * Corbyn took money from Iran regime as it shot its people
- * Iranians and Israelis enjoy World Cup love-in
- * On thwarting Iran’s nuclear threat
- * Interview with Tom Gross by Radio Farda (Iran)
Turkey & The Gulf
- * Videos from the “Turkish summer” against the “dictator Erdogan”
- * Why wasn’t Saudi on the Axis of Evil?
- * Al-Jazeera: Why can’t Arab armies be more humane like Israel’s?
Brexit & The Mideast
U.S. politics
- * Democrat presidential candidates under pressure to turn on Israel
- * Are Trump’s opponents playing into his hands?
- * Puerto Ricans have moved on. Why not Jews? U.S. presidential voting habits remain a puzzle
Human Rights
- * New Zealand’s Down’s syndrome outrage
- * From Syria to N Korea: The most remarkably brave people
- * The speakers were never meant to live to tell their stories
- * The plight of the Rohingya Muslims
- * Slobodan Milosevic: A Biography. From mediocrity to monster
The Holocaust
- * The Children of Bullenhuser Damm
- * Honoring the dead, one stone at a time
- * Reporting Auschwitz, then & now. The lamentable record of The NY Times
- * Golden Rose saved
- * The Lady In Number 6
- * Still so much to learn
- * How one film revolutionized Holocaust commemoration
- * The “Iranian Schindler” (& how FDR deliberately let Jews die)
- * “A shy little bird hidden in my rib cage”
- * Real Horrors, Phony Claims. Duping the Holocaust experts
- * Remembering Otto Dov Kulka
Provocative cartoons
- * Cartoons from the Arab World: deadlier than a 1000 words?
- * Anti-Israel cartoons, crossing the line into anti-Semitism
Photos essays
- * The death of a moderate Muslim, and depicting Mohammed
- * The deadly threats of Hizbullah and Iran
- * Exodus From Gaza, after thousands of years
- * Palestinian education, preparing for terror
- * Political allies of a Nobel peace laureate
Videos: fun and serious
- * Bernie Sanders slams BDS on Al Jazeera (& Are you afraid of flying?) (& Yiddish in Mongolia)
- * “To life” (& Global supermarket intifada)
- * No Woman, No Drive: First stirrings of Saudi democracy?
- * Opera among the shoppers of Tel Aviv
- * Walking again, thanks to Israeli innovation
- * “In search of the man who broke my neck”
- * How The Simpsons were behind the Arab Spring
- * Iran: Zuckerberg created Facebook for the Mossad
- * A Jewish tune with a universal appeal
- * Putin sings “Blueberry Hill” (& “We are family”)
- * Teaching schoolgirls, Egyptian-style
- * The beginnings of Bibi
- * Revolutionary Israeli technology changes the way we drive
“Tom Gross is probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East” -- Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin
“Tom Gross’s dynamic dispatches bring to light stories that matter. He’s a one-man news agency of the most impressive kind” -- Former Arab Affairs editor for the BBC Magdi Abdelhadi, Cairo
“I read dozens of websites about the Middle East but I find new and important information at Tom Gross’s. You can’t skip his dispatches” -- Former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams
“Tom Gross does an important job in bringing to our attention some of the most interesting articles published in various media outlets. His comments and analysis are very informative” -- Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian affairs correspondent, Jerusalem Post
Iranian women post photos free of hijab – but only for a few seconds
Hundreds of Iranian women defied strict rules requiring them to cover their heads in public, by sending photos of themselves without headscarves to a special Facebook page. They face arrest if identified. They quickly put their hijabs back on after taking the photos.
Interviews with human rights heroes
The wife of Saudi Arabia’s best known political prisoner, liberal blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, speaks out.
This is the impassioned plea which the first female Yazidi MP in Iraq’s parliament, Vian Dakhi, made to draw the world’s attention to the plight of Yazidi girls forced into sex slavery.
Egyptian liberal dissident and former political prisoner Maikel Nabil is one of the moderate centrists that Egypt needs.
Meanwhile on campus…
And on a happier note…
News from the Middle East can be depressing. Here is something more upbeat: people across the region record themselves singing along to the Pharrell Williams’ hit “Happy”.
The Iranians who created this “Happy” video were arrested and subjected to harsh detention. Police chief Hossein Sajedinia told the official ISNA news agency that the “vulgar clip” had “harmed public chastity”. Iran’s state TV broadcast a program showing the men and women in the video (which had become a hit on Iranian social media) confessing to their “crime” on camera. In response, Pharrell Williams wrote on his Facebook page that “It is beyond sad that these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness”.
A selection of TV interviews
The Media & distorted news
- * After CNN and BBC staffers praise Hitler, Tom Gross debates media bias with ex-AP Mideast editor
- * Is Israel treated differently by the foreign press? The question of group think & ‘Fake News’
- * Why NY Times obsessed with Israel, not with West Papua (half million dead)?
- * Tom Gross: the role of Memri in Mideast coverage
- * A lecture on media coverage of Israel & poor Israeli PR
The Arab world
- * The Kurds deserve their own state
- * If only Yazidis, Baluchis or Rohingya Muslims were so lucky
- * “Near total extinction of an ancient civilisation”
- * The media coverage of the Arab world
- * Did Erdogan deliberately let ISIS loose?
America & the Mideast
- * If only Yazidis, Baluchis or Rohingya Muslims were so lucky
- * Might Trump & Netanyahu help create a Palestinian state?
- * Trump: Israel, Palestine, Syria & “1984”
- * “Someone had to enforce Obama’s red line”
- * Can Trump deliver a two state solution?
- * Should Trump be banned from the UK?
Britain & the Mideast
- * The Queen embraced Assad, now finally Israel gets a royal visit
- * Should UK apologize for the Balfour Declaration?
- * Hidden motives as minister fired?
- * The obsession with Palestine
- * Corbyn’s dangerous foreign policy
Britain under attack
Brexit
- * Tom Gross on Boris Johnson
- * ‘Time to withdraw article 50’
- * The final end of the British Empire
- * Theresa May’s election mandate
- * The dangers of Brexit
- * The Brexit vote (in Arabic)
Israel & BDS
- * Israel & Arab states bypass Palestinians to make peace
- * Tom Gross on Benny Gantz (Israel TV)
- * Tom Gross on Benny Gantz (BBC Arabic)
- * Will Bibi stay in power? (BBC’s Lyse Doucet with TG)
- * Are cultural boycotts of Israel counter-productive?
- * Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s anti-boycott letter
- * The role of MEMRI in Mideast coverage
- * The Mohammed Al Dura video controversy
The future
A selection of articles
Media criticism
The New York Times
The BBC
- * Living in a Bubble: The BBC’s very own foreign policy
- * The BBC discovers ‘terrorism,’ briefly. Suicide bombing seems different when closer to home
- * London at a standstill: Is the BBC really “pro-Israel”?
UK media’s global reach
- * New Prejudices for Old: The European press and Israel
- * Jeningrad: What the British media said
- * The Guardian acknowledges a degree of anti-Semitism
- * Trump: A different reaction when Israel was described as “shitty”
News or Fake news?
- * Reuters: An agency that won’t call a terrorist a terrorist
- * Anti-Semitism at Le Monde and beyond
- * Media Missiles: The media in service of Hizbullah
- * Is the ‘media intifada’ running out of steam?
Terrorism and radicalism
- * The Forgotten Rachels: Eight girls named Rachel
- * The remarkable story of the Kinneret Chaya
- * “A shitty little country”: Prejudice & Abuse in Paris & London
- * Living with terror in London and Israel. A study in contrasts
- * “Barbarians of Europe”: The murder of Ilan Halimi
- * The Mohammed Cartoons: To be or not to be
- * India: Terrorists or doctors?
- * Denmark: Nothing random here
- * Londonistan: “I’d rather take ricin than publish this”
- * The coming Eurabia? The threat Europe might face from within
Palestinian issues
- * The good news about Gaza you will hear on Al Jazeera but not in western media
- * Move the 2022 World Cup from Qatar to Gaza?
- * Moderate students at a Palestinian university?
- * Quietly building Palestine
- * Obama: Too much Middle East peace processing?
- * Gaza’s luxury new malls
- * Gaza’s fine dining and Olympic-size swim pools
- * Mahmoud Abbas: Has anything really changed?
- * Yasser Arafat, “the stuff of legends”
Israeli issues
- * Could Trump Mideast peace plan work?
- * Netanyahu defies his critics again
- * Israel-India: Bibi & Modi frolic in the Med
- * Soccer killing fields: singling out Israel
- * Ariel Sharon, “A colossus of our time”
- * The Mossad
- * Al Jazeera praises IDF
- * The cases of Noam Chomsky & Elton John
- * Crude diatribes and wishful thinking: A Pulitzer Prize winner attacks Israel
- * Elvis in Jerusalem. The blaming of Israel from within
The Arab world, Iran & Turkey
Syria
- * The media has long covered up for Assad
- * The Syrian Uprising
- * Syrian refugees: “May God bless Israel”
The Kurds
Iran
- * Corbyn took money from Iran regime as it shot its people
- * Iranians and Israelis enjoy World Cup love-in
- * On thwarting Iran’s nuclear threat
- * Interview with Tom Gross by Radio Farda (Iran)
Turkey & The Gulf
- * Videos from the “Turkish summer” against the “dictator Erdogan”
- * Why wasn’t Saudi on the Axis of Evil?
- * Al-Jazeera: Why can’t Arab armies be more humane like Israel’s?
Brexit & The Mideast
U.S. politics
- * Democrat presidential candidates under pressure to turn on Israel
- * Are Trump’s opponents playing into his hands?
- * Puerto Ricans have moved on. Why not Jews? U.S. presidential voting habits remain a puzzle
Human Rights
- * New Zealand’s Down’s syndrome outrage
- * From Syria to N Korea: The most remarkably brave people
- * The speakers were never meant to live to tell their stories
- * The plight of the Rohingya Muslims
- * Slobodan Milosevic: A Biography. From mediocrity to monster
The Holocaust
- * The Children of Bullenhuser Damm
- * Honoring the dead, one stone at a time
- * Reporting Auschwitz, then & now. The lamentable record of The NY Times
- * Golden Rose saved
- * The Lady In Number 6
- * Still so much to learn
- * How one film revolutionized Holocaust commemoration
- * The “Iranian Schindler” (& how FDR deliberately let Jews die)
- * “A shy little bird hidden in my rib cage”
- * Real Horrors, Phony Claims. Duping the Holocaust experts
- * Remembering Otto Dov Kulka
Provocative cartoons
- * Cartoons from the Arab World: deadlier than a 1000 words?
- * Anti-Israel cartoons, crossing the line into anti-Semitism
Photos essays
- * The death of a moderate Muslim, and depicting Mohammed
- * The deadly threats of Hizbullah and Iran
- * Exodus From Gaza, after thousands of years
- * Palestinian education, preparing for terror
- * Political allies of a Nobel peace laureate
Videos: fun and serious
- * Bernie Sanders slams BDS on Al Jazeera (& Are you afraid of flying?) (& Yiddish in Mongolia)
- * “To life” (& Global supermarket intifada)
- * No Woman, No Drive: First stirrings of Saudi democracy?
- * Opera among the shoppers of Tel Aviv
- * Walking again, thanks to Israeli innovation
- * “In search of the man who broke my neck”
- * How The Simpsons were behind the Arab Spring
- * Iran: Zuckerberg created Facebook for the Mossad
- * A Jewish tune with a universal appeal
- * Putin sings “Blueberry Hill” (& “We are family”)
- * Teaching schoolgirls, Egyptian-style
- * The beginnings of Bibi
- * Revolutionary Israeli technology changes the way we drive
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“Tom Gross is probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East” -- Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin
“Tom Gross’s dynamic dispatches bring to light stories that matter. He’s a one-man news agency of the most impressive kind” -- Former Arab Affairs editor for the BBC Magdi Abdelhadi, Cairo
“I read dozens of websites about the Middle East but I find new and important information at Tom Gross’s. You can’t skip his dispatches” -- Former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams
“Tom Gross does an important job in bringing to our attention some of the most interesting articles published in various media outlets. His comments and analysis are very informative” -- Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian affairs correspondent, Jerusalem Post
Iranian women post photos free of hijab – but only for a few seconds
Hundreds of Iranian women defied strict rules requiring them to cover their heads in public, by sending photos of themselves without headscarves to a special Facebook page. They face arrest if identified. They quickly put their hijabs back on after taking the photos.
Interviews with human rights heroes
The wife of Saudi Arabia’s best known political prisoner, liberal blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, speaks out.
This is the impassioned plea which the first female Yazidi MP in Iraq’s parliament, Vian Dakhi, made to draw the world’s attention to the plight of Yazidi girls forced into sex slavery.
Egyptian liberal dissident and former political prisoner Maikel Nabil is one of the moderate centrists that Egypt needs.
Meanwhile on campus…
And on a happier note…
News from the Middle East can be depressing. Here is something more upbeat: people across the region record themselves singing along to the Pharrell Williams’ hit “Happy”.
The Iranians who created this “Happy” video were arrested and subjected to harsh detention. Police chief Hossein Sajedinia told the official ISNA news agency that the “vulgar clip” had “harmed public chastity”. Iran’s state TV broadcast a program showing the men and women in the video (which had become a hit on Iranian social media) confessing to their “crime” on camera. In response, Pharrell Williams wrote on his Facebook page that “It is beyond sad that these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness”.
Remembering John Gross
The Times: “An exemplary literary journalist”
