Media professional standards differ by country

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Unceasing accusations of media bias surround reporting on controversial events. The last American oresidential election and the latest confrontation between Israel and Gaza are recent illustrations of the phenomenon. This kind of public response seems to demand a better definition of professional journalistic standards,says Dr. Sandrine Boudana of Tel Aviv […]

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Travel and Food

Why Israelis disbelieve international guarantees

By Evelyn Gordon        In an interview with The Jerusalem Post last month, Czech Ambassador to Israel Tomas Pojar was asked to comment on recent remarks by Israel’s then-foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who compared European countries’ oft-proclaimed commitment to Israel’s security to their commitments to Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. Pojar replied, correctly, that the parallel

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Middle East

Israeli company designing historic San Diego desalination plant

CARLSBAD, California (JNS.org) An Israeli company is undertaking what will be the western hemisphere’s largest desalination project, the Jerusalem Post reported.   The $922 million Carlsbad Desalination Project—a partnership between the American subsidiary of Israel’s IDE Technologies Ltd., Poseidon Resources and the San Diego County Water Authority—will consist of a 204,412-cubic-meter seawater desalination plant in

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Travel and Food

JNS news briefs: January 9, 2013

Poll: 50 percent of Israelis say U.S. pressure should not sway Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Half of the Israeli Jewish public concurs that Israel should follow current government policy even at the price of a confrontation with the U.S. administration, a new poll published Tuesday revealed.   Additionally, according to the Israel Democracy Institute

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International

JNS news briefs: January 8, 2013

Knesset speaker says Israel ‘worried’ about Hagel nomination (JNS.org) Following the swift reaction of U.S.-based Jewish groups to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense, Israel began to weigh in on the move Tuesday—and the general sentiment was concern. “Because of his statements in the past, and his stance toward Israel,

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International

Hagel on Israel—in letters

By JNS.org  On the day when President Barack Obama nominated former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel for defense secretary, the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) said that despite expressing concerns about Hagel in the past, it believes Hagel will “follow the President’s lead of providing unrivaled support for Israel—on strategic cooperation, missile defense programs, and leading

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USA

Hagel’s apparent Israel animus only one reason for opposition

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– We’re hearing different things about Chuck Hagel, and the reasons for his appointment as Obama’s Secretary of Defense.. Clips of his comments about the power of the Jewish lobby, the Palestinians being chained down, and the damage to the standing of the US due to excessive support of Israel Comments expressing

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Ira Sharkansky, USA