Why These Iranian Demonstrations Are Different from Those of 2009
Overthrow of the regime is now the goal.
January 2, 2018
There’s a Reason the American Media Don’t Cover the Iranian Protests Properly
The echo chamber strikes back.
Surveying U.S. journalists’ confused coverage of the demonstrations on the streets of Iran—which include such dubious claims as the suggestion that crowds chanting “Death to the dictator” (referring to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei) are more concerned with economics than politics—Lee Smith sees the lasting effects of the Obama administration’s foreign-policy messaging operation. The operation’s mastermind, then-Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, notoriously described it as “an echo chamber” designed to get journalists to accept a narrative of events in the Middle East that bolstered the case for the nuclear deal with Tehran. According to Smith, the sway of this echo chamber is compounded by journalists’ own self-interest:
January 2, 2018
There’s a Reason the American Media Don’t Cover the Iranian Protests Properly
The echo chamber strikes back.
Hamas Is Trying to Spark an Explosion in the West Bank
Hundreds of foiled terror attacks.
Why Universities Have Ignored the New Anti-Semitism
The new hatred and the old.
A Clay Seal from the 7th-Century-BCE Governor of Jerusalem
A rare and important find.