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About Ari Paul

Ari Paul has reported for the Nation, the Guardian, the Forward, the Brooklyn Rail, Vice News, In These Times, Jacobin and many other outlets.
  • NYT

    NYT undermines fight against antisemitism by using it as shield for Zionism

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 17, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Pro-Israel zealots commonly attempt to discredit criticism of the Israeli government by equating such criticism with antisemitism, because Israel is the world’s only state with a Jewish majority.

  • Feds Threaten Wikipedia

    Feds threaten Wikipedia after Right-Wing media uproar

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 29, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.

  • The New York Post (3/10/25)

    In return to ‘war on terror’ propaganda, Murdoch cheers suppression of protest

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 19, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The arrest and possible deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card holder with a student visa, for his organizing role at Gaza solidarity protests last year has sent shockwaves throughout American society.

  • Illustration of “cultural Marxism” from a neo-Nazi website.

    ‘Cultural Marxism’: The mainstreaming of a Nazi trope

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 4, 2019 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    When Norwegian right-winger Anders Breivik invoked “cultural Marxism” as the reason for his 77-person killing spree in 2011, many observers placed the notion in the same category as the killer—the fringe.

  • Owned (Hachette, 2025)

    Did Left journalists buy into Right-wing ideology–or were they bought?

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 13, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    What is truly more urgent is the fact that a dangerous media class is taking advantage of this media vacuum, at the expense of regular people.

  • Alyssia Finley (Wall Street Journal, 1/12/25)

    Right-Wing sleuths find the LA fires culprit

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 15, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Game-changing fires destroyed Paradise, California, in 2023, and Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2024—clear warnings, if any were still needed, that the climate catastrophe had arrived.

  • Peter Coy (New York Times, 12/13/24)suggested that UnitedHealth’s vertical monopolization of healthcare is “something like a private version of a single-payer national healthcare system.”

    NYT panics over outrage at insurance companies

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 17, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Americans see the systems working in the rest of the world and know that the United States could have a better healthcare regime, but that corporate and government leaders simply choose not to.

  • Brian Thompson

    Murdoch outlets and Bezos’ WaPo demand more sympathy for health insurance execs

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 11, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The early morning murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was met on social media with a “torrent of hate” for health insurance executives.

  • Donald Trump

    How Trump will seek revenge on the Press

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 14, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.

  • TikTok

    Judges in TikTok case seem ready to discount First Amendment

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 27, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Earlier this year, despite widespread protest, President Joe Biden signed legislation forcing TikTok’s owner “to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States”.

  • Fox News depiction (4/30/24) of the Columbia University encampment it complained it had been shut out of.

    Media scorn Gaza protesters for recognizing corporate reporters aren’t their friends

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 8, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    An emerging complaint the corporate media have against the nationwide—and now international—peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them.

  • The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All

    The McCarthyist attack on Gaza protests threatens free thought for all

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 19, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    With the encouragement of the state, universities from coast to coast are taking draconian steps to silence debate about U.S.-backed violence in the Middle East.

  • TikTok

    House votes against TikTok—and for more Cold War

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 14, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    A bipartisan effort to effectively ban the social media network TikTok in the United States has taken a great leap forward.

  • Charles Littlejohn

    Source who revealed how taxes steal for the rich rewarded with five years in prison

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 2, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Because of Charles Littlejohn, we know that former President Donald Trump and a whole bunch of other rich people pay next to nothing in taxes, while the rest of us frantically file tax returns and see our wages sucked away to fund the military, aid for Israel and corporate subsidies.

  • The Real Border Crisis: Texas vs. the Constitution

    The real border crisis: Texas vs. the Constitution

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 29, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The United States is on the verge of a constitutional crisis, one that enlivens the nationalist fervor of Trump America and that centers on a violent, racist closed-border policy.

  • NYT Amplifies Outrage Over Imaginary Calls for Genocide

    NYT amplifies outrage over imaginary calls for genocide

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 12, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    University presidents are under fire from politicians and the media over what is being framed as their waffling over allowing antisemitic speech on their campuses.

  • Screenshots of Israel/Palestine content on TikTok.

    ‘Free Speech’ fans call for censoring TikTok as Chinese plot to make Israel look bad

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 13, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Axios (10/31/23) reported that in a two-week period, TikTok saw “nearly four times the number of views to TikTok posts using the hashtag #StandwithPalestine globally compared to posts using the hashtag #StandwithIsrael.” As a result, the conservative outrage machine kicked into high gear.

  • New York Times photo (10/27/23) of a Jewish Voice for Peace protest at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal (photo: Bing Guan).

    Conflating Jewish and pro-Israel is wrong and misleading

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 6, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    As protests erupt worldwide against Israel’s ferocious bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza, which has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 Palestinians, U.S. media ponder how all of this impacts Jewish people.

  • An Israeli security officer threatens an Al-Araby reporter (Arab News, 10/15/23): “If you don’t report the truth, woe is you.”

    Israeli attacks on journalists stifle reporting on Gaza horrors

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 19, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    While the primary focus of this conflict is Gaza, journalists have wondered if a second northern front would open between Israel and the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, creating a multifaceted regional war.

  • The Character Assassination of San Francisco

    The character assassination of San Francisco

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 24, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CNN has joined the media chorus decrying the death of San Francisco with a one-hour special.

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