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Screenshots from the websites of Jusoor News and the Center for Peace Communications. Background image shows the ruins of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

The viral Arabic media outlet hiding its ties to Israel

Jusoor News says it reflects the pulse of the Arab street. But leaked files suggest links to Israeli intelligence and a pro-Israel agenda with deep roots.

By Yossi Bartal and Amin Al Magrebi July 13, 2026

IDF Spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, December 12, 2025. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit Facebook page; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Inside the Israeli army’s propaganda wing

Psy-op campaigns, selective leaks, exclusive reporter access: Soldiers and journalists reveal how the IDF Spokesperson's Unit controls public discourse and promotes Israel's narrative abroad.

By Illy Pe’ery April 8, 2026

Foreign and Israeli journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in the city of Sderot, southern Israel, October 19, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

The legal fight to open Gaza to foreign press has failed. It’s time to change course

As Israel’s Supreme Court continues enabling the government’s foreign media ban, Palestinian journalists are paying the price. Further legal efforts are futile.

By Amos Brison February 6, 2026

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Oracle's Larry Ellison and executive producer David Ellison arrive at the LA premiere of "Star Trek Into Darkness" at The Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, May 14, 2013 (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images)

The billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor

Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN, the Ellisons are constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach.

By Will Alden December 4, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about the need for Israeli troops to remain in the Philadelphi Corridor during a Hebrew press conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?

Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.

By Ben Reiff September 11, 2024

Jews march within a large rally for a ceasefire in Gaza in central London, November 11, 2023. (Alisdare Hickson/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED)

A ‘no-go zone’ for Jews? The making of a moral panic in London

While antisemitism in the U.K. has certainly risen, politicians and the media are deliberately inflaming sensationalist narratives for a repressive agenda.

By Ben Reiff March 13, 2024

Foreign and Israeli journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in the city of Sderot, southern Israel, October 19, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

How the news cycle misses the predominant violence in Israel-Palestine

The uneventful nature of structural violence renders it unfit for media coverage compared to kinetic violence. But the two are inextricably linked.

By Alexei Sisulu Abrahams February 2, 2024

Workers at the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem, June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Will Israel shut down Al Jazeera?

The government is advancing regulations to close the network's Israel branch, a move journalists and free press defenders decry as baseless and dangerous.

By Oren Persico and The Seventh Eye November 1, 2023

Palestinian men read Al Quds Arabic newspaper in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 28, 2006. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)

The Arabic media on Israel’s crisis: Don’t interfere with its implosion

Across the Arab world, journalists are debating the implications of Israel's anti-government protests on the state's stability and regional relations.

By Baker Zoubi August 3, 2023

View of the New York Times building in Manhattan, New York City, USA, June 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Why the New York Times is behind the times on Israel-Palestine

A recent editorial criticizing Israel's new government reflects the same blind spots that have dogged America's 'newspaper of record' for decades.

By Maha Nassar December 21, 2022

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin addressees Jewish leaders at the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations at the Shoreham American Hotel, April 17, 1980. (Moshe Milner/GPO).

The war that canonized America’s hasbara playbook

The defensive line taken by the American-Jewish establishment during the 1982 Lebanon invasion solidified many of the methods that are deployed when Israeli violence makes headlines today.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth October 28, 2022

Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during an interview for CBS, November 11, 1973. Milner Moshe/GPO)

US media talks a lot about Palestinians — just without Palestinians

Although major U.S. newspapers hosted thousands of opinion pieces on Israel-Palestine over 50 years, hardly any were actually written by Palestinians.

By Maha Nassar October 2, 2020

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When an American in the IDF meets a Palestinian American in Hebron

An American serving in the Israeli army in Hebron says that in her job granting and denying Palestinians permission to work and travel, it’s a ‘conversation starter’ to meet Palestinians who back home would have full rights like her. The video below was published Sunday by COGAT, the unit of the Israeli Defense Ministry charged…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man August 25, 2019