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Postcard from Israel – Bet She’an
Although only about a tenth of the archaeological site of Bet She’an has been excavated, it has to be one of the most fascinating places to visit in Israel. First settled in the Chalcolithic period in...
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Happy Christmas!
Wishing all CiF Watch readers celebrating Christmas a very happy holiday and a wonderful New Year.
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Postcard from Israel -Tel Lachish
As is the case with many of the other Tels in Israel, Tel Lachish shows evidence of habitation spanning many different historic periods over thousands of years. It is perhaps most well-known, however,...
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Postcard from Israel – Old Gesher
Here’s a story for any train-spotters among our readers. When Pinchas Rotenberg was constructing the Naharaiym power plant on the Jordan River in the years 1927 – 1932, his company purchased ten army...
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Postcard from Israel – Stormy Weather
As readers may have heard, Israel (along with other countries in the Middle East) has been experiencing unusually stormy weather this last week with high winds and heavy rains. The more unpleasant...
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Postcard from Israel – Gamla
“From a lofty mountain there descends a rugged spur rising in the middle to a hump, the declivity from the summit of which is of the same length before as behind, so that in form the ridge resembles a...
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Postcard from Israel – Almond blossom
The wild almond trees are already in bloom in Israel – just in time for the holiday of Tu B’Shvat which begins this evening. Wishing all those readers celebrating a happy and tasty holiday! Wild...
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Guardian’s BDS promotion fails to tell readers what it really is
The Guardian’s coverage of Stephen Hawking’s decision to withdraw from a conference in Israel has so far included no fewer than eight items in three days. The initial report by Harriet Sherwood and...
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Pictorial representations of Israel promoted by the Guardian
Over at the BBC Watch site we have a link to an interesting 2005 report by Trevor Asserson and Michael Paluch on the subject of the BBC’s use of images to depict the Palestinian – Israeli conflict and...
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Harriet Sherwood’s Jerusalem gossip column
An article by Harriet Sherwood entitled ”Netanyahu flies into turbulence over $127,000 bed on plane“, which appeared in the Guardian on May 12th, once again gives the impression that some of that...
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Guardian’s Milne diligently promotes Assad propaganda
It is the publication of thinly veiled ideologically inspired polemics such as the one by Seumas Milne on the subject of Syria which appeared in the ‘Comment is Free’ section of the Guardian on May 7th...
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Guardian’s Sherwood self-conscripts to PR campaign for Israeli law breaker
At first glance, Harriet Sherwood’s sympathetic show-casing of an Israeli law-breaker (“Israel jails conscientious objector Natan Blanc for tenth time“, May 13th, 2013) might look like just another one...
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Guardian continues promotion of fringe BDS movement
On May 11th – three days after its initial publication of Stephen Hawking’s decision to pull out of a conference in Israel – we noted that the Guardian had already published eight items on the subject....
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Guardian promotes book by ‘one-stater’
Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that Harriet Sherwood’s romanticised piece entitled “Gaza gastronomy” – which appeared under the ‘Food & Drink’ heading of the Guardian’s ‘Life & Style’...
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Adam Levick and Richard Millett blog the UEFA Under-21 Championship in...
Update 13: Adam: Israel wins! Game over. Update 12: Update 11: Update 10: Update 9: Adam: Israel scores! Stadium erupts. Update 8: Adam: Attendance just announced – over 22,000. Update 7: Update...
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A response to Harriet Sherwood’s parting shot
Harry’s Place brings us the news that the Israeli Embassy in London has responded by letter to the long feature by Harriet Sherwood published in the Guardian’s weekend edition on February 8th which was...
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Read Adam Levick’s article at The Jewish Chronicle on UK media’s anti-Israel...
Here are the lead paragraphs of Adam Levick’s recent column at The JC: The first port of call for an examination of bias in media coverage of the teens’ murders is naturally the Guardian, one of the...
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Read Adam Levick’s latest article in The Jewish Chronicle
Here are the first few paragraphs of Adam Levick’s latest article in the Jewish Chronicle: “You have to keep an eye on who you are following on Twitter and where the picture you’re tweeting came from,”...
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Read Adam Levick’s latest article at The Jewish Chronicle
Here are the first few paragraphs of Adam Levick’s latest article at The Jewish Chronicle: On Monday night, Israel formally accepted the Egyptian proposed ceasefire calling for an end to “all...
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