Continued from the introduction to this report, here
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HuffingtonPost.com ("HuffPost") was recently named
"the most powerful blog in the world" by The Guardian (UK).
The publisher of the Washington Post said her paper
"could learn" from HuffPost (which recently surpassed
the Post in user traffic). Time recently called
HuffPost the second-best blog of 2009.
With 9.5 million visitors per month,
top members of Congress and the entertainment industry as "bloggers" (official
article writers), access to presidential press conferences, and advertising
from the world’s largest corporations, HuffPost — which defines itself as "The
Internet Newspaper" — has unquestionably become a factor in American
politics and culture.
At HuffPost’s debut in May 2005, Arianna
Huffington, the site's co-founder and Editor-In-Chief, claimed that her site would operate
according to a higher standard than its competitors:
"If you're looking for the usual flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric... don't bother coming to the Huffington Post."
Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism: A Report Provided to the United States Congress (summary here)
Seeing Anti-Semitism In 3D by Natan Sharansky
Anti-Semitism 101 (and the Zionist canard), by Huff-Watch
Israel should be pushed into the ocean. Fucking deceiving lying PIGS. No wonder they don't eat pork, they ARE pigs.
By: JewsRevilScum on July 17, 2006 at 4:06am
[screencap; user account is active; 29 comments; here]
If America was interested in solving the problem all they would have to do is cut off funding to Israel. Either that or just nuke the fuck out of that little shitty state of beanie wearing bastards who consider themselves arrogantly 'chosen people'. Waste them now and save the whole world a lot of furthur headache.
By: JewsRevilScum on July 17, 2006 at 6:26am
[screencap]
My nephew is in Haifa.
By: Thalia on July 26, 2006 at 12:34pm
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Tell it to someone who gives a shit. Blast Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa off the map.
By: JewsRevilScum on July 26, 2006 at 12:53pm
[screencap]
We will see how far Israel pulls back. If they try and take the Litani River, Hezbollah will attack again and well they should. Only next time send those missiles to Tel Aviv....blast those beanie wearing pigs to hell, where they belong.
By: SatanLefttheUSA on August 16, 2006 at 11:08am
[screencap; user account is active; 819 comments here]
The Zionist controlled sports organizations, are all a plot to rattle the nerves of the spectator. Hot Dogs anyone, at prices higher than the price of a gallon of gasoline and going up by the minute [...] Suck the coins right out of your pockets, steal every cent you have, so you can go 'whoopee we win'. It's all take and no give, just rake in more [...]
By: RandyRanson on August 22, 2006 at 12:37pm
[screencap; user account is active; 3,925 comments here]
Of course jews don't run show business, it is just a coincidence that they manage to get into the show business news every minute.
By: bernarda on August 25, 2006 at 4:16pm
[screencap; user account is active; 386 comments here]
[...] Israel is the racists fascists country intent on stealing Arab land oil and water. [...] THE ISRAEL LOBBY, it runs Washington...
By: spiritquest on August 26, 2006 at 2:52pm
[screencap; user account is active; 6,412 comments here]
The following comments, from 2007, are from users who now have amassed up to
17,000 others* in their archives (*see "forpeace"):
Is there a Nation out there that will STOP the JEWS from killing innocent woman and children once and for all ?
I just cant wait for the next Hollocaust, it will be faster and cleaner now that Seimens built a 500 seater Microwave Oven.
By: BUSHCHENEYOILNAZIS on April 07, 2007 at 04:49am
[screencap user account is active; 1,005 comments here]
When Israel says they "Targeted Militants", it always means they killed some poor Civilians mostly Women and Children.
By: forpeace on April 06, 2007 at 08:17pm
[screencap; user account is active; 16,942 comments here]
On the same day that those scumbag Jewish soldiers shot and killed two men in the back, they shot another in the legs and left him to bleed to death.This happens every single day. Israels will shoot Palestinians and leave them to bleed to death, preventing medical personnel to reach them and forcing their families to watch their loved ones die. [...]
By: tellintruth on April 07, 2007 at 12:46am
[screencap; user account is active; 802 comments here]
It's Good Friday, so of course somebody had to die..Shalom..
By: TJTelecaster on April 06, 2007 at 10:17pm
[screencap; user account is active; 2,084 comments here]
The following is a condensed version of a comprehensive report on this matter, here.
For years, and to the present day, HuffPost’s Comment
Policy has claimed that the site "post-moderates" comments on its
news threads — in summary, only removing objectionable content only after
it had been posted. As described below, this has not been true for a very
long time.

In early and mid-2007, several instances of outrageous user comments on HuffPost
were exposed in the national media — including their regrets
that the Taliban’s recent attempt to murder Vice President Cheney was unsuccessful.
In October 2007, HuffPost placed an indicator (right) atop each news thread,
identifying how many comments were "pending," meaning it was reviewing
them — and deciding whether to publish or reject them. In January 2008, on a
story concerning Israel, while 16 comments were published, 175
were stuck in "pending." Soon thereafter, more instances of outrageous
user comments were exposed in the national media — particularly regarding users’
death
wishes against Nancy Reagan while she was hospitalized.
"From the beginning, I would have established a policy of pre-moderating all comments on the site... [O]ur comments on the news site were originally post-moderated (i.e., objectionable comments were removed only after our moderators were alerted). We eventually decided that it was worth the substantial effort and expense to have human pre-moderation on both blogs and news."
"We are increasingly seen... as an Internet newspaper, not positioned ideologically in terms of how we cover the news."
- Arianna Huffington, May 22, 2009
"[T]he news is not right-wing news or left-wing news, it's the news. And that will be the sensibility, that will basically permeate our news coverage."
- Arianna Huffington, May 3, 2005
The Huffington Post approach [is] "covering the news in a 21st-century kind of way" [in addition to] new ideas about balance and fairness...
- Conden Naste Portfolio interview with Betsy Morgan (CEO), November 14, 2007
"A lot of the discontent with traditional journalism is because too many reporters have forgotten that the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned."
- Arianna Huffington, July 29, 2008
"[Huffington] is offended and bewildered by the suggestion that other news outlets think she's getting a free ride. She sees herself as the future of journalism, not the end of it."
- Time interview with Arianna Huffington, May 19, 2009
Numerous critics from across the political spectrum, however, have opined
on how, despite its statements to the contrary, HuffPost consistently presents
news through a left-wing prism at best — and at worst, has employed smear campaigns
and egregiously substandard "journalistic" practices. This archive
documents numerous specific examples of HuffPost’s false/misleading headlines
in recent years, with conservative individuals and organizations as its primary
targets.
Nowhere, however, has HuffPost’s pathological bias been more evident than
as it applies to Israel and Jews.
The following sections document elements of one sustained incident on HuffPost
in which it unfairly denigrated Israel — its 2008 incursion into Gaza — and
excerpts from the resulting torrent of incendiary, anti-Semitic user comments
that it reviewed, approved and decided to publish.
From 2006 to the present day, HuffPost has consistently applied a two-faceted bias to its coverage of news concerning Israel:
As Natan Sharansky noted, these acts and omissions
are a subtle yet very real form of anti-Semitism. This archive contains
a detailed accounting of some of the many instances of HuffPost’s anti-Israel
bias — and the hate-filled user comments that it reviewed, approved and decided
to publish, in response.
HuffPost's biased "reporting" reached a sustained zenith during Israel's December 2008 incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead. Israel initiated this defensive measure after Hamas refused a final demand that it stop attacking and terrorizing Israeli citizens.
This three-week conflict was the top story on HuffPost nearly every day. Rather
than reporting on Israel’s actions in a fair, accurate and contextual manner,
HuffPost:
The following are four examples of how HuffPost applied its anti-Israel bias
at points throughout Cast Lead. And as noted in the next section, many HuffPost
users responded to this incitement by unleashing a sustained barrage of venomous
anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hatred, libels, propaganda and conspiracy theories.
Some even voiced threats and urgings for violence against Jews and Israelis.
Photo caption: "The father of Palestinian Dena Balosha, 4, left, one
of five members of the same family including three children and two teenagers
who were killed in an Israeli missile strike [...]."
Analysis: This was the single most egregiously misleading and inflammatory
headline and image that HuffPost employed throughout Cast Lead. HuffPost’s implication
was that this little girl was "a symbol of Hamas Power," and that Israel
mercilessly and maliciously struck her with deadly force. For unknown reasons
(perhaps because this was such a grievous, anti-Semitic libel), at some point
after February 1, 2008, HuffPost changed the headline
image of this thread. It could not, however, change the URL, which
contains the original headline wording; see top and bottom here.
Photo
caption: "Palestinians crowd to receive food aid at a United Nations food
distribution center in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City."Notes:
(1) Usman
Time to Ki** your Isr**li friends! Third Intifada!
Posted 10:09 PM on 12/27/2008
[screencap;
user was banned,
but got up to at least 265 comments here,
here]
(2) JeffRenseRadio
A great time is capturing a jpiggie, taking his beanie and wiping my a$$
with it, then cramming that and his z i on aiz star of david flag down his
jpiggie throat...
Posted 06:39 AM on 12/29/2008
[screencap;
user was banned]
(3) ArabsRSemitesPointOut
as long as there are Js on this planet there will never be peace.....
Posted 05:00 AM on 12/30/2008
[screencap;
user was banned,
but got up to at least 13 comments — 9 after this one, here,
here]
(4) markoze
They all need to be rounded up and g assed
Posted 05:03 AM on 12/30/2008
[screencap;
user account is active,
but HuffPost removed all comments, here]
(5) ArabsRSemitesPointOut
[...] They should lock and load and destroy js where they sleep. The rest
of the world is...
Posted 04:43 AM on 12/30/2008
[screencap;
user was banned,
but got up to at least 13 comments — 11 after the above, here,
here]
(6) murkor
Those J ews really are e vil...
Posted 12:55 AM on 01/02/2009
[screencap;
user account is active,
but HuffPost removed all comments, here]
(7) rich_misty
[...] many pro-war supporters here since the conflict started are izzy
agents and paid posters for the izzies.
Posted 07:43 AM on 01/02/2009
[screencap;
user account is active;
41,308 comments here.
Note: "Rich_misty" is one of the most notorious, long-term violators of HuffPost’s
comment policies, and is an ardent anti-U.S. military, anti-Israel propagandist;
see special report on how HuffPost has actively enabled and protected him, here.]
(8) Mogamboguru
And even many "Is-ra-el-ha-te-rs" are in fact, Is-rae-li pro-paga-ndists.
Why? Because thus, the Is-ra-el-apo-loge-tics can point fingers at them and
can always claim, how important and how justified Is-ra-el's measures to "def-end"
herself aga-inst the pale-stin-ian "vio-lence" in fasct are.[...]
Posted 07:50 AM on 01/02/2009
[screencap;
user account is active;
16,864 comments, here]
(9) peacekitten
i don't think that it's any coincidence at all that now that izr@el know that
h@mas has the possibility of hitting a nvclear reactor, they *might* consider
softening their position. funny how they had NO problem with wiping the
pals off the face of the earth until they discovered they might actually
be able to strike back in a meaningful way. proof that bullies like this
are nothing but c0wards.
Posted 08:11 AM on 01/02/2009
[screencap 1
and 2;
user account is active;
19,168 comments here]
(10) SkepticHume
[...] Just imagine: the tiny defenseless group standing up, all alone, against
a major military power bent on oppressing and destroying a people..[...]
Imagine escalating outrage against Is-ra-el around the world as pictures are
seen of women holding limp little b0dies of children in their hands, crying,
as an Is-ra-eli soldier aims an AK.-47 at her head. [...] With each civilian
casualty [...] Is-ra-el gets closer to the regime in Germany that provided
the impetus for the creation of Is-ra-el...
Posted 02:49 PM on 01/03/2009
[screencap;
user account is active;
1,715 comments; here.
Note: This is the alternate screen name of "HumeSkeptic," one of the most egregious, long-term violators of HuffPost’s comment policies,
and as indicated above, an anti-Israel propagandist. HuffPost has enabled
and protected him to post nearly 75,000 comments, under the same screen
name, as documented here.]
(11) Amennyc
There's a reason they have been the most problematic group for thousands
of years...
Posted 09:03 AM on 01/04/2009
[screencap;
user account is active;
2,594 comments here]
(12) RoyLewis
There is a new name for America. Its called the Jewnited States of America...
They control the media, the FED, most of the banks, always have a few
in presidential admins including the upcoming one and control the entertainment
industry... There is starting a huge backlash in America against them because
people are finally waking up. Same as the germans did in the 30's...
Posted 02:05 PM on 01/04/2009
[screencap;
user was banned]
(13) areyoucrazy
[...] Personally I hope Russia, China, Iran just unloads about 200,000 missiles
on that little ra s cist country all at once. As for me, I am targetting
all jooooooooos in my area, but when they get it they will never know what
hit them...
Posted 03:08 PM on 01/10/2009
[screencap
; user was banned;
but got up to at least 27 comments, here]
(14) Ant
Why is our government supporting women and children being k.illed off by
I.srael? [...]
Posted 05:43 PM on 01/10/2009
[screencap;
user account is active,
6,060 comments here]
(15) LoRiseAntlers
This is nothing but an extermination campaign [...]the IDF and the government
of Israel are edge of genocide...
Posted 06:15 PM on 01/10/2009
[screencap 1,
2;
user account is active;
1,374 comments here]
(16) cordillera
[Israel is] starving children [...] You've got one ally left - and if
the Democrats wake up - that one is going to be shaky - no matter who AIPAC
tries to buy
Posted 06:43 PM on 01/10/2009
[screencap 1,
2;
user account is active;
347 comments here]
(17) goldcoastsailor
Why are Israelis always dancing after a massacre?
Posted 09:29 AM on 01/19/2009
[screencap;
user account is active;
475 comments here]
(reply)
(18) TimeisalmostUp
Because they are PIGS,.............that is why they don't eat pork...it
would be considered cannibalism of their own...
Posted 09:44 AM on 01/19/2009
[screencap;
user was banned,
but got up to at least 114 comments, here,
here,
an estimated 100 of which were after the above]
The following five articles, excerpted from this extensive archive, demonstrate HuffPost’s continuing pattern throughout 2009 of (a) framing stories regarding Israeli affairs in a biased fashion, (b) failing to cover vital follow-ups and related stories, (c) using "news" sources with clear anti-Semitic/pro-Islamist biases over reputable alternatives, and/or (d) reviewing, approving and deciding to publish the explicit and implicit anti-Semitic user comments that its actions incited.
3/11/09: Fomenting anti-Israel hatred by telling only one side of the Charles Freeman withdrawal story
HuffPost routinely provides timely updates to its stories, both the vital and inconsequential ones. Yet when Freeman withdrew his nomination to a top national security post in the Obama administration, and blamed it all on the Jews, HuffPost did not post a single update to document the broad, bipartisan opposition to him in Congress, and the reasons behind it. Predictably, HuffPost then reviewed, approved and decided to publish the outpouring of anti-Semitic hate comments that this biased coverage resulted in.
4/2/09: Ax murder of an Israeli child: Who said it - A terrorist spokesman, or HuffPost users (with approval)?
One of the most grievous, shameful examples of the different approaches that HuffPost takes to covering a murder story — and its (supposed) comment moderation standards — depending on the religion and nationality of the victim, and the perpetrator.
5/29/09: Using a biased Arabic "news" source to present a distorted account of a terror suspect killed by the IDF
HuffPost used a demonstrably biased Arabic "news" source over credible sources to insinuate that the Israeli military murdered an individual described as an "activist." The real story, which was widely available 24 hours earlier, provided the facts. Predictably, the comments that HuffPost approved on this thread contain anti-Israel, anti-Semitic hate, libels and conspiracy theories.
8/4/09: Misleading headline sourced from... Al Jazeera (ill-informed, hateful comments ensue; HuffPost: Approved!!!")
What happens when HuffPost chooses to source a story concerning Palestinian evictions only from the notorious, terrorist-celebrating Al Jazeera — then allows anti-Semites to comment on it? This.
8/19/09: HuffPost publishes anti-Semitic blood libel without any proof; users unleash anti-Semitic hate (HuffPost: "Approved!!!")
HuffPost chose to publish, on its front page and as teasers atop its main story pages, the Swedish newspaper blood libel that Israeli soldiers are murdering Palestinians to harvest their organs (with a possible link to U.S. Jews). The story itself revealed that the reporter had "no idea, no clue" if the allegations are true. Turns out the Palestinian family denied making the allegations — and it's medically impossible, anyway. Another instance of HuffPost's shoddy "journalism," and of it inciting — then approving — vicious anti-Semitic libels and conspiracy theories in its user comments.
Casual news consumers might expect that the only places on the Internet where
one would encounter egregious anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bias, and tolerance
of users’ hatred, propaganda and conspiracy theories would be websites run by
fringe groups, such as neo-Nazis and radical Islamists.
As documented herein, however, incidents of this phenomenon are consistently
occurring on HuffPost, which has become "legitimized" [6] — at least in part
because of its claims that it is a nonpartisan news source:
Given this "legtimitization," HuffPost is clearly helping to shape opinions
and perceptions on important cultural and national security matters on an instantaneous,
sustained and global basis.
The following are some additional reasons for deep concern about what is transpiring
at HuffPost, in regards to Israeli and Jewish affairs:
Fact: According to Alexa (a Web traffic monitor), of the 9+ million unique visitors who visit HuffPost each month, an estimated 135,000 live in two of the nations most responsible for fomenting, supporting and exporting Islamist terror: Iran and Pakistan [10].
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Question: What could be attracting these particular users to HuffPost? The following may help to answer this question.
Fact: The Internet has become the primary medium through which radical Islamists and jihadists spread and reinforce their propaganda — a centerpiece of which is their incendiary anti-Israel, anti-Semitic libels and conspiracy theories [11]. Al Qaeda even has its own Web propaganda division [12]. One of these groups’ stated missions is to infiltrate Western websites to spread their messages of hate [13].
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Questions: Are some of the users cited in this report affiliated with or sympathetic to these groups, posting comments from behind "American"-sounding screen names? Are they spewing their anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred, and posting links to propaganda sites (omitted from this report) on HuffPost because they have become aware of its biases? Do they forward links to HuffPost articles regarding Israel to others, as a means of "legitimizing" their propaganda?
Fact: In June 2009, HuffPost signed a deal with an advertising services firm that will help it sell ad inventory for territories outside of the U.S... (where) millions of consumers..." use the site as "one of the top online destinations for news."
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Question: How many more global "news consumers" will be spurred to take an unjustifiably negative view of Israeli and Jewish affairs — if not develop or reinforce outright anti-Semitic hatred — based on HuffPost’s biased reporting and comment moderation procedures?
Taken in totality, HuffPost’s acts and omissions (a) help further stoke the
anti-Semitism that is now resurgent around the world [14], (b) further spread
and legitimize the worst possible perceptions of Israel, and (c) have
a corrosive, if not subversive effect on both domestic and global discourse
regarding Israeli affairs.
Given the contents of this report, HuffPost clearly has a choice to make:
To continue fashioning stories regarding Israeli affairs in such a biased fashion, and tolerating such vicious anti-Semitic hatred in its user comments — or —
To recommit itself to its stated, nonpartisan journalistic principles — and to stop making exceptions to its comment policy for those who wish to express anti-Semitic, anti-Israel hatred, libels, propaganda and conspiracy theories
If HuffPost chooses the second course, it should give the Israeli government
and/or its military a platform from which to address the persistent vilification
and libels that it has incited and tolerated against them over the past several
years. For as Ms. Huffington said in a 2008 video interview,
HuffPost is happy to provides a means for public figures to respond to accusations
of serious wrongdoing against them: "If someone wants to smear you about
something, come to us."
To send comments to HuffingtonPost.com, email Mario Ruiz, Vice President — Media Relations, at mario@huffingtonpost.com.
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Original content is (c) Copyright 2009-2010 Huff-Watch.blogspot.com.
All rights reserved.
[1] For a more detailed discussion of this phenomenon, see Section 5 in Anti-Semitism
101 (and the Zionist canard), by Huff-Watch.
[2] See "Libel 1" and "Libel 2" in Answering
the Libels, by Huff-Watch.
[3] Is
The Media Fair In Its Portrayal Of The Israeli-Hamas Conflict?, Steven
Emerson, The Investigative Project On Terrorism, January 7, 2009.
Israel's
Awful Terrorist Pacts, Steven Emerson, The Investigative Project On
Terrorism, July 16, 2008.
[4] See "PallyWood"
— An introduction, and Answering
the Libels, by Huff-Watch.
[5] See "Libel 1" and "Libel 2" at Answering
the Libels by Huff-Watch; also, The Jewish Virtual Library,
Myths Vs.
Facts, specifically The Gaza
War, and here.
[6] See "The
Political Evolution And "Legitimization" Of HuffPost," by
Huff-Watch.
[7] See Section 4 in Fast
facts about HuffPost, by Huff-Watch.
[8] See Section 7 in Fast
facts about HuffPost, by Huff-Watch.
[9] See Section 8 in Fast
facts about HuffPost, by Huff-Watch.
[10] See Section 4 — 4.3 in Fast
facts about HuffPost, by Huff-Watch.
[11] Terrorists
Turn To The Web as Base Of Operations, by Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser,
The Washington Post, August 7, 2005.
Jihadists Use
Internet As Recruiting, Networking Tool, Intel Official Says, By John
J. Kruzel, American Forces Press Service, March 5, 2007.
Jihadists Making Increasing
Use Of Internet To Gain Recruits, by Robert Spencer, JihadWatch, March
6, 2009.
"E-Qaeda":
Jihadist Use Of The Internet, by Tim Pippard, Jane’s Strategic Advisory
Services, April 16, 2009.
Islamist
Websites As An Integral Part Of Jihad: A General Overview, by Y. Yehoshua,
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), February 21, 2007.
Glossy Internet Magazine
Targets Americans For Jihad Training, by Eric Shawn, Fox News, May 1,
2009.
Islam
in America Series: Internet Jihad, by Kathy Shaidle, RightSideNews,
March 22, 2009.
Foxman Briefs Knesset On Internet Hate, The Anti-Defamation League,
February 19, 2008.
E-terrorism: The Powerful Weapons Of Islamic Jihad, by Gianpietro Mazzoleni,
The University of Milan, September 2005.
Anti-Israel
Facebook Groups Infiltrated, By Paul Lungen, The Canadian Jewish
News, September 25, 2008.
Osama
bin Laden Fan Clubs Build Online Communities, by Kasie Hunt, USA
Today, March 8, 2006.
Jihadis
And The Internet, The National Coordinator For Counterterrorism (Netherlands),
February 24, 2007.
The Use Of The Internet By Islamic Extremists, testimony before the
U.S. House of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, by
Bruce Hoffman, RAND Corporation, May 2006.
[12] Al
Qaeda: 'Kicking Butt’ Online, by Leela Jacinto, France24, February 29,
2008.
[13] Global Islamic
Media Front Instructs Islamists to Infiltrate Popular Non-Islamic Forums to
Spread Pro-Islamic State Propaganda, Middle East Media Research Institute
(MEMRI), June 14, 2007.
Symposium: Cyber Jihad, by Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine, Thursday,
February 28, 2008.
Protest Launched Against Facebook for Being Pro-Jihad, Anti-Israel,
by David Horowitz and Robert Spencer, JihadWatch, March 7, 2009.
Jihadist Forum Calls For 'YouTube Invasion, The Telegraph (UK),
December 4, 2008.
What to Do About
Pixels of Hate, by Michael Moss, The New York Times, October
21, 2007.
Al Qaeda in Europe Recruiting Cyberjihadis, Whine About CIA Plot to Take Down
Islamist Websites, by Rusty Shackleford, MyPetJawa, August 31, 2007.
[14] "Anti-Semitism in
the 21st Century: The Resurgence," Two Cats Productions, for Oregon
Public Broadcasting, 2007..See 56:00 video here.
"The
Oldest Hatred," by David Horowitz, The Jerusalem Post, February
19, 2009.
The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism, Bernard Harrison, Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, Inc, 2006. Review by Commentary here.
"UK Anti-Semitism 'Surge' Since Gaza Attack," by Tim Moynihan,
The Independent (UK), January 6, 2009.
"Anti-Semitic Crime 'Reaches High'," BBC (UK), February 11, 2005.
"Surge in Anti-Semitic Crime Worries French Jews," Suzanne Daley, The
New York Times, February 26, 2002.