Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

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The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is a magazine published 9 times per year in Washington, D.C. that "focuses on news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region."[1] Critics have described it as anti-Israel.

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[edit] Political position

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs states that it does not take partisan domestic political positions, and that as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it endorses U.N. Security Council Resolution 242´s land-for-peace formula, supported by seven successive U.S. presidents. According to its web-site, the Washington Report "supports Middle East solutions which it judges to be consistent with the charter of the United Nations and traditional American support for human rights, self-determination, and fair play."[1]

[edit] Publisher

It is published by the American Educational Trust (AET), founded in 1982, which is a 501(c)4 non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, D.C. and was established by retired U.S. foreign service officers.[1] AET's Foreign Policy Committee has included former U.S. ambassadors, government officials, and members of Congress, including the late Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, and Republican Senator Charles Percy, both former chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. According to AET, members of its Board of Directors and advisory committees receive no fees for their services. Investigative journalist Lee Kaplan, writing in FrontPageMag.com, has claimed that "Washington Report on Middle East Affairs magazine and Web site – indeed, the entire organization behind it – are funded by Saudi Arabia."[2]

[edit] Criticism

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs has been characterized by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America as "virulently anti-Israel,"[3] as "bitterly anti-Zionist" and "the most conspiratorially-minded of the anti-Israel forces" by the Middle East Quarterly,[4] as "a journal known for its strong anti-Israel bias" by Honest Reporting,[5] and as "an anti-Israel publication that frequently serves as an apologist for Muslim American groups advocating anti-Semitism and support for terrorism" by the Anti-Defamation League.[6] Canada's National Post has also described the magazine as "anti-Israel,"[7] the Jewish Virtual Library has stated that the "WRMEA publishes many articles that are considered to be anti-Israel and anti-Zionist",[8] the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles notes that critics view it as "guilty of frequent factual distortions" and "an unrelenting polemic against Israel",[9] and Jonathan Tobin, executive editor of The Jewish Exponent has described the publication as "the guidebook to the Arabist lobby in the United States" that "specializes in defaming Israel."[10]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b "About Washington Report on Middle East Affairs," accessed February 20, 2007.
  2. ^ Lee Kaplan, "Scholars for Terror," FrontPageMag.com December 7, 2004, accessed December 1, 2006.
  3. ^ "Media Analyses" of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, accessed December 1, 2006.
  4. ^ Michael Lewis, "Israel's American Detractors - Back Again," Middle East Quarterly 4.4 (December 1997), accessed February 20, 2007.
  5. ^ "Blaming Israel for Abu Ghraib?" Honest Reporting May 10, 2004, accessed December 1, 2006.
  6. ^ "Wheels of Justice: A Biased View of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict," Anti-Defamation League November 6, 2006, accessed December 1, 2006.
  7. ^ "National Post's CBC Watch I," National Post May 8, 2004.
  8. ^ "Legislative Record of Senator John Kerry,", Jewish Virtual Library, accessed December 1, 2006.
  9. ^ Marc Ballon, "Libraries: The New Mideast Battlefront," Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles January 20, 2006.
  10. ^ Jonathan Tobin, "The Friends of our Foes," Jewish World Review September 15, 2000, accessed December 1, 2006.

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