* Recent dispatch (*): Iranian women’s soccer team accused of fielding a man (& Teaching Israeli poetry in Gaza)
* Recent dispatch (*): Cleaner at house of Israel Defense Minister tried to provide info to Iran’s Black Shadow
* Recent dispatch (*): Wheelchair-using Israeli minister invited to meet Boris Johnson after being refused entry to COP26 climate summit in Glasgow
* Recent dispatch (*): The French Trump: The so-called Jewish “useful idiot” endorsed by Jean-Marie Le Pen appeals to Les Deplorables
* Recent dispatch (1): A Middle East football World Cup to help calm tensions and bring about cooperation
* Recent dispatch (2): UK police examine possible Qatari-Somali link over killing of MP
* Recent dispatch (3): BBC: “The rabbi from Brooklyn saved our lives”; CNN: “And Israelis saved us”
* Recent dispatch (4): Raqqa, the Isis capital where hostages were beheaded, is now Syria's most thriving city
* Recent dispatch (5): Death threats for Iraqis calling for peace with Israel, as US abandons these peacemakers
* Recent dispatch (6): Taliban 2.0: How the return of the “Islamic emirate” of Afghanistan affects everywhere from China to Chechnya
* Recent dispatch (7): The fall of Kabul: “Women will now be subject to laws from the seventh century” (& failure to follow the South Korea way)
* Recent dispatch (8): Yair Lapid: Is antisemitism racism?
* Recent dispatch (9): Iran’s new president: “A gruesome and unapologetic killer” (& Iran TV: “Obama looks colored, but he’s really a Jew”)
* Recent dispatch (10): Naftali Bennett, The Man Behind the Slogans and Stereotypes (&“worst apartheid ever”)
* Recent dispatch (11): The rise and fall of “King Bibi”: Haviv Rettig Gur and Tom Gross discuss the Netanyahu legacy
* Recent dispatch (12): After CNN and BBC staffers praise Hitler, Tom Gross debates media bias with ex-AP Mideast editor
* 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 & distorted news
- * After CNN and BBC staffers praise Hitler, Tom Gross debates media bias with ex-AP Mideast editor
- * Is Israel treated differently by the foreign press? The question of group think & ‘Fake News’
- * Why NY Times obsessed with Israel, not with West Papua (half million dead)?
- * Tom Gross: the role of Memri in Mideast coverage
- * A lecture on media coverage of Israel & poor Israeli PR
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
Meanwhile on campus…
And on a happier note…
Remembering John Gross
The Times: “An exemplary
literary journalist”
* Recent dispatch (*): Iranian women’s soccer team accused of fielding a man (& Teaching Israeli poetry in Gaza)
* Recent dispatch (*): Cleaner at house of Israel Defense Minister tried to provide info to Iran’s Black Shadow
* Recent dispatch (*): Wheelchair-using Israeli minister invited to meet Boris Johnson after being refused entry to COP26 climate summit in Glasgow
* Recent dispatch (*): The French Trump: The so-called Jewish “useful idiot” endorsed by Jean-Marie Le Pen appeals to Les Deplorables
* Recent dispatch (1): A Middle East football World Cup to help calm tensions and bring about cooperation
* Recent dispatch (2): UK police examine possible Qatari-Somali link over killing of MP
* Recent dispatch (3): BBC: “The rabbi from Brooklyn saved our lives”; CNN: “And Israelis saved us”
* Recent dispatch (4): Raqqa, the Isis capital where hostages were beheaded, is now Syria's most thriving city
* Recent dispatch (5): Death threats for Iraqis calling for peace with Israel, as US abandons these peacemakers
* Recent dispatch (6): Taliban 2.0: How the return of the “Islamic emirate” of Afghanistan affects everywhere from China to Chechnya
* Recent dispatch (7): The fall of Kabul: “Women will now be subject to laws from the seventh century” (& failure to follow the South Korea way)
* Recent dispatch (8): Yair Lapid: Is antisemitism racism?
* Recent dispatch (9): Iran’s new president: “A gruesome and unapologetic killer” (& Iran TV: “Obama looks colored, but he’s really a Jew”)
* Recent dispatch (10): Naftali Bennett, The Man Behind the Slogans and Stereotypes (&“worst apartheid ever”)
* Recent dispatch (11): The rise and fall of “King Bibi”: Haviv Rettig Gur and Tom Gross discuss the Netanyahu legacy
* Recent dispatch (12): After CNN and BBC staffers praise Hitler, Tom Gross debates media bias with ex-AP Mideast editor
* 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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