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* Recent dispatch (1): Jews assaulted after lies about Covid & George Floyd; Einstein, Jabotinsky spoke up for African-Americans; Israel saves Syrian baby

* Recent dispatch (2): George Floyd’s murder was appalling and (of course) black lives matter, but the international media still need to get their facts right so as not to inflame the situation

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: Shmuel Bar

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: Evgeny Kissin on music, the Yiddish language, Israel and the Soviet Union

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: The last Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: John O’Sullivan, Margaret Thatcher’s trusted advisor

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: Filmmaker Hossein Amini (grandson of ex-PM of Iran)

* Recent dispatch / 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

* Interview / An interview with Tom Gross about his life

Shmuel Bar, who worked for Israel’s government for 30 years in various analytical and operational capacities, and who is a world-class expert in a variety of fields, discusses the state of America, Europe, the Mideast and the world, and what dangers may lay ahead, including for life after Abbas in the PA.

youtu.be/j_ekSPVLMAg

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Among other conversations in this series:

* Tom Gross speaks about his own life youtu.be/T4Pg-IDYJYE

As part of a series of informal conservations with friends, Paul Lewis asks Tom Gross about Tom’s own life experiences and views: growing up surrounded by cultural and literary luminaries in London and New York; crossing Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin with his grandmother during communism; helping the Roma when almost no one else would; his close relationships with his grandparents and with his godmother Sonia Orwell (the model for the heroine Julia of her husband’s masterpiece ‘1984’); the importance and legacy of the Holocaust; and other matters. ... See MoreSee Less

Conversations with friends: Shmuel Bar (Herzliya)

www.youtube.com

Shmuel Bar, who worked for Israel’s government for 30 years in various analytical and operational capacities, and who is a world-class expert in a variety of...

Video

A selection of TV interviews

The Media & ‘Fake news’

The Arab world

America & the Mideast

Britain & the Mideast

Britain under attack

Brexit

Israel & BDS

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

Palestinian issues

Israeli issues

The Arab world, Iran & Turkey

Syria

The Kurds

Iran

Turkey & The Gulf

Brexit & The Mideast

U.S. politics

Human Rights

The Holocaust

Provocative cartoons

Photos essays

Videos: fun and serious

“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

more ...

Iranian women post photos free of hijab – but only for a few seconds

Hundreds of Iranian women defied strict rules requiring them to cover their heads in public, by sending photos of themselves without headscarves to a special Facebook page. They face arrest if identified. They quickly put their hijabs back on after taking the photos.

Interviews with human rights heroes

The wife of Saudi Arabia’s best known political prisoner, liberal blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, speaks out.
A schoolgirl who escaped Boko Haram in Nigeria describes her ordeal. Michelle Obama is among those campaigning to #BringBackOurGirls. Most remain in captivity.
An interview with a former French Islamic State hostage in Syria, who was held with the U.S. and British hostages who were beheaded, including Jim Foley and Steve Sotloff.
This is the impassioned plea which the first female Yazidi MP in Iraq’s parliament, Vian Dakhi, made to draw the world’s attention to the plight of Yazidi girls forced into sex slavery.
Egyptian liberal dissident and former political prisoner Maikel Nabil is one of the moderate centrists that Egypt needs.
North Korean defector and freedom campaigner Hyeonseo Lee has risked her life by criticizing one of the world’s most oppressive regimes.
At the grave of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. Arafat was no human rights hero, rejecting a Palestinian state, setting back peace efforts, and keeping some unpleasant company.

Meanwhile on campus…

Incitement to kill Jews made by masked Palestinian students at a “moderate” American-partnered university: A series of photos exclusive to this website from Al-Quds campus.

And on a happier note…

News from the Middle East can be depressing. Here is something more upbeat: people across the region record themselves singing along to the Pharrell Williams’ hit “Happy”.
Happy in Tel Aviv
Happy in Jerusalem
Happy in Beirut
Happy in Gaza
Happy in Tehran
The Iranians who created this “Happy” video were arrested and subjected to harsh detention. Police chief Hossein Sajedinia told the official ISNA news agency that the “vulgar clip” had “harmed public chastity”. Iran’s state TV broadcast a program showing the men and women in the video (which had become a hit on Iranian social media) confessing to their “crime” on camera. In response, Pharrell Williams wrote on his Facebook page that “It is beyond sad that these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness”.

Tom Gross on Roma

* A Forgotten People (Wall St Journal)
* Remembering Milena (The Guardian)

Tom Gross on Art

* Communist underwear is latest art hit!
* Leaning tower straightens up
* But is it Art?

Remembering John Gross

The Times: “An exemplary
literary journalist”

The Economist: “Man of
Letters”

The Guardian: “My hero”

Latest Mideast Dispatches: here

* Recent dispatch (1): Jews assaulted after lies about Covid & George Floyd; Einstein, Jabotinsky spoke up for African-Americans; Israel saves Syrian baby

* Recent dispatch (2): George Floyd’s murder was appalling and (of course) black lives matter, but the international media still need to get their facts right so as not to inflame the situation

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: Shmuel Bar

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: Evgeny Kissin on music, the Yiddish language, Israel and the Soviet Union

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: The last Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: John O’Sullivan, Margaret Thatcher’s trusted advisor

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: Filmmaker Hossein Amini (grandson of ex-PM of Iran)

* Recent dispatch / Conversations with friends: Writer David Pryce-Jones

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* 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

* Interview / An interview with Tom Gross about his life

Shmuel Bar, who worked for Israel’s government for 30 years in various analytical and operational capacities, and who is a world-class expert in a variety of fields, discusses the state of America, Europe, the Mideast and the world, and what dangers may lay ahead, including for life after Abbas in the PA.

youtu.be/j_ekSPVLMAg

***

Among other conversations in this series:

* Tom Gross speaks about his own life youtu.be/T4Pg-IDYJYE

As part of a series of informal conservations with friends, Paul Lewis asks Tom Gross about Tom’s own life experiences and views: growing up surrounded by cultural and literary luminaries in London and New York; crossing Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin with his grandmother during communism; helping the Roma when almost no one else would; his close relationships with his grandparents and with his godmother Sonia Orwell (the model for the heroine Julia of her husband’s masterpiece ‘1984’); the importance and legacy of the Holocaust; and other matters. ... See MoreSee Less

Conversations with friends: Shmuel Bar (Herzliya)

www.youtube.com

Shmuel Bar, who worked for Israel’s government for 30 years in various analytical and operational capacities, and who is a world-class expert in a variety of...

Video

A selection of TV interviews

The Media & ‘Fake news’

The Arab world

America & the Mideast

Britain & the Mideast

Britain under attack

Brexit

Israel & BDS

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

Palestinian issues

Israeli issues

The Arab world, Iran & Turkey

Syria

The Kurds

Iran

Turkey & The Gulf

Brexit & the Mideast

U.S. politics

Human Rights

The Holocaust

Provocative cartoons

Photos essays

Videos: fun and serious

“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

more ...

Iranian women post photos free of hijab – but only for a few seconds

Hundreds of Iranian women defied strict rules requiring them to cover their heads in public, by sending photos of themselves without headscarves to a special Facebook page. They face arrest if identified. They quickly put their hijabs back on after taking the photos.

Interviews with human rights heroes

The wife of Saudi Arabia’s best known political prisoner, liberal blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, speaks out.
A schoolgirl who escaped Boko Haram in Nigeria describes her ordeal. Michelle Obama is among those campaigning to #BringBackOurGirls. Most remain in captivity.
An interview with a former French Islamic State hostage in Syria, who was held with the U.S. and British hostages who were beheaded, including Jim Foley and Steve Sotloff.
This is the impassioned plea which the first female Yazidi MP in Iraq’s parliament, Vian Dakhi, made to draw the world’s attention to the plight of Yazidi girls forced into sex slavery.
Egyptian liberal dissident and former political prisoner Maikel Nabil is one of the moderate centrists that Egypt needs.
North Korean defector and freedom campaigner Hyeonseo Lee has risked her life by criticizing one of the world’s most oppressive regimes.
At the grave of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. Arafat was no human rights hero, rejecting a Palestinian state, setting back peace efforts, and keeping some unpleasant company.

Meanwhile on campus…

Incitement to kill Jews made by masked Palestinian students at a “moderate” American-partnered university: A series of photos exclusive to this website from Al-Quds campus.

And on a happier note…

News from the Middle East can be depressing. Here is something more upbeat: people across the region record themselves singing along to the Pharrell Williams’ hit “Happy”.
Happy in Tel Aviv
Happy in Jerusalem
Happy in Beirut
Happy in Gaza
Happy in Tehran
The Iranians who created this “Happy” video were arrested and subjected to harsh detention. Police chief Hossein Sajedinia told the official ISNA news agency that the “vulgar clip” had “harmed public chastity”. Iran’s state TV broadcast a program showing the men and women in the video (which had become a hit on Iranian social media) confessing to their “crime” on camera. In response, Pharrell Williams wrote on his Facebook page that “It is beyond sad that these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness”.

Tom Gross on Roma

* A Forgotten People (Wall St Journal)
* Remembering Milena (The Guardian)

Tom Gross on Art

* Communist underwear is latest art hit!
* Leaning tower straightens up
* But is it Art?

Remembering John Gross

The Times: “An exemplary
literary journalist”

The Economist: “Man of
Letters”

The Guardian: “My hero”

Tom Gross on Art

* Communist underwear is latest art hit!
* Leaning tower straightens up
* But is it Art?

Tom Gross on Roma

* A Forgotten People (Wall St Journal)
* Remembering Milena (The Guardian)
 

Remembering John Gross

The Times: “An exemplary
literary journalist”

The Economist: “Man of
Letters”

The Guardian: “My hero”

Remembering John Gross

The Times: “An exemplary
literary journalist”

The Economist: “Man of
Letters”

The Guardian: “My hero”

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All notes and summaries on this website copyright © Tom Gross. All rights reserved.