"Four hostages freed! And the media treats it as a bad news story" by Brian Henry

Noa Argamani and her father reunited after her rescue from captivity in Gaza 

To have some idea what’s going on in Israel, I read the Times of Israel or the Jerusalem Post. Canadian media often just supplies Hamas’s latest propaganda release and calls it news.

Case in point: Did the CBC have a banner headline about the rescued hostages? Hardly. … read the rest here.

Read more of my essays here (and scroll down).

If you want to run screaming from the room whenever politics come up, I do write about other things.

I have a review of The Prisoner and the Writer, an illustrated book for young people by Heather Camlot here, and an interview with Hart Snider, author of the graphic novel, The Basketball Game (here). Both of these do touch on antisemitism, but they’re not opinion pieces ~ as a writer, antisemitism just happens to be my beat (or one of them).