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May 5, 2021

How to Tell Accounts of Israel’s Reality from Fables about Jews

Eight simple rules.

The journalist and former Israel correspondent for the Associated Press Matti Friedman notes that very often what passes for reporting about the Jewish state—even when factually accurate in the strict sense—has little to do with what is happening there, or the lives of Israelis and Palestinians. As a result, many Westerners have a deeply distorted “narrative” about the country, and its persistent conflict with its neighbors. Friedman attempts to explain why:

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