* Recent dispatch (2): Video: Some European leaders thank Israel for pushing them to act against coronavirus (while World Health Organization maintains its disdain for Israel)
* Recent dispatch (3): “All it takes is one careless moment”: Two personal warnings about coronavirus
* Recent dispatch (4): The world after coronavirus (& among the sweetest of men)
* Recent dispatch (5): Is coronavirus as deadly as they say? (& Economic crash could cost more lives than virus)
* Recent dispatch (6): Humor in the time of a pandemic
* Recent dispatch (7): Gun drawn in fight for frozen food amid coronavirus panic in Toronto grocery store (& Quarantined Italian tenor sings ‘Nessun Dorma’)
* Recent dispatch (9): “The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria” (& virus could break Iranian regime) (The origins of ‘quarantine’)
* Recent dispatch (10): US to deport Nazi to Germany, Italy to ban kissing, Netanyahu: Use Indian ‘namaste’ greeting instead of handshakes
* Recent dispatch / Israeli and Saudi leaders ‘may soon meet in public for first time’
* 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
- * 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
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”
* Recent dispatch (2): Video: Some European leaders thank Israel for pushing them to act against coronavirus (while World Health Organization maintains its disdain for Israel)
* Recent dispatch (3): “All it takes is one careless moment”: Two personal warnings about coronavirus
* Recent dispatch (4): The world after coronavirus (& among the sweetest of men)
* Recent dispatch (5): Is coronavirus as deadly as they say? (& Economic crash could cost more lives than virus)
* Recent dispatch (6): Humor in the time of a pandemic
* Recent dispatch (7): Gun drawn in fight for frozen food amid coronavirus panic in Toronto grocery store (& Quarantined Italian tenor sings ‘Nessun Dorma’)
* Recent dispatch (9): “The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria” (& virus could break Iranian regime) (The origins of ‘quarantine’)
* Recent dispatch (10): US to deport Nazi to Germany, Italy to ban kissing, Netanyahu: Use Indian ‘namaste’ greeting instead of handshakes
* Recent dispatch / Israeli and Saudi leaders ‘may soon meet in public for first time’
* 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
- * 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
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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All notes and summaries on this website copyright © Tom Gross. All rights reserved.