Will Lauren Wolfe give me a “respectfully, FU” too?

When I read Lauren Wolfe’s latest article, Reconciling Being Jewish with the Siege of Gaza,I was enraged and I knew I was going to critique it. I intend this to be my last post on Lauren Wolfe. Actually, I was surprised to see she did not block me from her site since I already critiqued […]

Lauren Wolfe on Gaza again: Now it’s bothsidesism regarding rape

I wish she would stop giving me things to write about. Lauren Wolfe, who, last December wrote the easily debunked article that Israel deliberately targets Gazan journalists (debunked here), just wrote that it is “likely” Israeli soldiers are raping Gazan women: . . . but [she writes] reporters are unable to report from Gaza, so […]

Lauren Wolfe: Ghettos, Victim Mentality, and Hatred

Wolfe thinks it is brave and taboo-breaking to call Gaza a ghetto and accuses Israel of being perpetrators stuck in our own victimhood. That taboo was broken decades ago and she is either ignorant of, or ignores, the fact that victims have three choices. Oct 7th is a watershed for Israel. Apparently, also for American […]

Lauren Wolfe: Writing about journalism and saying this about the war

Why does an interesting article about contemporary journalism have to start like this? Yesterday, journalist Lauren Wolfe, who writes about writing on her Substack site, published an article entitled: “Why Israel bumped Ukraine off the News.” Here she talks about people’s attention to the news and how the press can/should respond to the changed readership […]