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The Arab world
America & the Mideast
Britain & the Mideast
Britain under attack
Brexit
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
UK media’s global reach
News or Fake news?
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 Kurds
Iran
Turkey & The Gulf
Brexit & The Mideast
U.S. politics
Human Rights
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
Photos essays
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
Interviews with human rights heroes



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And on a happier note…
Remembering John Gross
The Times: “An exemplary
literary journalist”
* Recent dispatch (1): Syrian sentenced for crimes against humanity; Iran leader: Cartoons must show women in hijab (& Amazon bans “When Harry Became Sally”)
* Recent dispatch (2): Israel buys Russian covid vaccine for Syria in exchange for captured woman (& are normalization talks between Syria, Israel underway?
* Recent dispatch (3): “We’re handing Afghanistan to the Taliban”; middle class Afghans being assassinated in the run-up to US withdrawal
* Recent dispatch (4): Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: remembering Otto Dov Kulka
* Recent dispatch (5): Netanyahu in court; & Top Iranian cleric: People who are get covid vaccine “become gay”
* Recent dispatch (6): Iranian diplomat sentenced to 20 years for bomb plot in France (& democracy activist killed yesterday on Iranian orders)
* Recent dispatch (7): ‘My Aunt Had a Dinner Party, and Then She Took Her Guests to Kill 180 Jews’ (& other items)
* Recent dispatch (8): Palestine goes to the polls: “Now he switches cars between his Mercedes-Benz S350 and a Toyota Land Cruiser”
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Writer Ariana Neumann (Venezuela / Prague / London)
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Novelist Max Gross: When Google meets shtetl
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Alan Dershowitz on his life, career and the state of America
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: New York Times columnist Bret Stephens
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Palestinian journalist Issam Ikirmawi (CNN, Al Jazeera, etc)
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Jamie Fly, From Trump to Biden: US foreign policy and party politics moving forward
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Violinist & Holocaust survivor Bela Dekany
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Times of Israel editor David Horovitz
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Mostafa Elostaz on Palestinian issues
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Lawyer Zoe Johnson
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Shmuel Bar
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Pianist Evgeny Kissin on music, the Yiddish language, Israel and the Soviet Union
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: The last Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: John O’Sullivan, Margaret Thatcher’s trusted advisor
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Filmmaker Hossein Amini (grandson of ex-PM of Iran)
* Recent video / Conversations with friends: Writer David Pryce-Jones
* Recent profile (1) / “A leftist in the fight against left-wing lies”: Profile of Tom Gross in the German daily Die Welt
* Recent profile (2) / Tom Gross profiled in the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat
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A selection of TV interviews
The Media & ‘Fake news’
The Arab world
America & the Mideast
Britain & the Mideast
Britain under attack
Brexit
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
UK media’s global reach
News or Fake news?
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 Kurds
Iran
Turkey & The Gulf
Brexit & the Mideast
U.S. politics
Human Rights
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)
- * Remembering Otto Dov Kulka
- * “A shy little bird hidden in my rib cage”
- * Real Horrors, Phony Claims. Duping the Holocaust experts
Provocative cartoons
Photos essays
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
Interviews with human rights heroes



Meanwhile on campus…

And on a happier note…
Remembering John Gross
The Times: “An exemplary
literary journalist”
Remembering John Gross
Remembering John Gross
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