The press that covers Israel and Palestine
This page lists the people and organization that constitute the press that covers Israel and Palestine.
Al Jazeera
A Qatari news media organization headquartered in Wadi Al Sail, Doha. It is funded primarily by the government of Qatar.
Aluf Benn
Aluf Benn is an Israeli journalist, author, and editor-in-chief of the liberal Israeli national daily Haaretz. He is a critic of the Netanyahu Government and Israel's strategic policies.
Benn claims that Netanyahu has worked to derail the Palestinian national movement and the two-state solution.
He argues that Netanyahu rallies the Israeli public around a siege mentality, framing international pressure as pure antisemitism and consolidating his authoritarian rule.
Amy Goodman
an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Since 1996, Goodman has been the main host and executive producer of Democracy Now!
Ana Kasparian
Co-host and executive producer of The Young Turks (TYT), one of the largest online progressive news networks in the United States. She is a harsh critic of Israel's actions related to the genocide in Gaza, the attack on Iran, and AIPAC's control over most U.S. Congressmen.
Anadolu Agency
a state-run news agency headquartered in Ankara, Turkey. It operates in 13 languages in over 100 countries. Given Israel's hostile attitude towards Turkey, news reporting from Turkey is germane.
B'Sheva
a weekly Hebrew language newspaper published in Israel. The first issue of B'sheva, published by Arutz Sheva, appeared on July 19, 2002. It is distributed free on Thursdays in religious population centers. It has been identified with the Israeli settlement movement.
Ben Shapiro
an American conservative political commentator, media host, attorney, and movie producer. Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily political podcast and live radio show. He was editor-at-large of Breitbart News from 2012 until his resignation in 2016.
Email: bshapiro@dailywire.com
Breaking Points
An American political and news video podcast hosted by Krystal Ball, Saagar Enjeti, Ryan Grim, Emily Jashinsky, and Griffin Davis. Founded in June 2021.
Cenk Uygur
He is the co-creator of The Young Turks, a progressive and a left-wing populist sociopolitical news and commentary program. He is a harsh critic of Israel's genocide in Gaza, settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, the attack on Iran, and AIPAC's control over most U.S. Congressmen.
2023 book: Justice is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It
Dana Bash
an American journalist, news anchor, host of Inside Politics and co-anchor of State of the Union on CNN. She has been accused by CNN insiders of pro-Israel bias.
Zeteo: How Can CNN’s Dana Bash Pretend to Be an Objective Journalist Anymore?
Daniel L. Davis
a retired United States Army officer and an analyst of United States foreign policy. He was one of the earliest military officers to publicly criticize the War in Afghanistan. In 2025, Davis was selected by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for appointment as deputy director for mission integration.
Gabbard withdrew her selection after criticism from hawkish Republican lawmakers due to Davis criticism of Israel. As of 2025, he is a Senior Fellow at the Defense Priorities Foundation. He also hosts the Daniel Davis Deep Dive podcast, analyzing war, national security, and politics.
YouTube: Daniel Davis Deep Dive podcast
David Sirota
a journalist, magazine writer, book author and nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist living in the Rocky Mountain West.
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is an hour-long independent American television, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh. The show, which airs live each weekday at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, is broadcast on the Internet and via more than 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.
Drop Site News
a nonprofit investigative news outlet founded by Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill in July 2024. It is based in Washington, D.C.
Eli Clifton
cofounder and senior advisor at the Quincy Institute. An investigative journalist, he focuses on money in politics and U.S. foreign policy. He previously reported for the American Independent News Network, ThinkProgress, and Inter Press Service, and is coauthor of the Center for American Progress report "Fear Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America."
2026 book: Israel's Lobby: America in the grip of a Foreign Power
Emily Jashinsky
An American conservative journalist, commentator, and media critic. She is a co-host on Breaking Points.
Emma Vigeland
main co-host and producer alongside Sam Seder on The Majority Report. She is a progressive who is an anti-Zionist.
Fars News Agency
A news agency in Iran that is close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), one of the three branches of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces. While it describes itself as "Iran's leading independent news agency", it is widely described by Western news media to be a "semi-official" news agency of the Government of Iran.
Foreign Affairs
A magazine of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, founded in 1922. Distributed by email.
Forever Wars
The mission of Forever Wars, owned by Spencer Ackerman, is to chronicle, investigate and interrogate the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror.
Glenn Diesen
a Norwegian political scientist, political commentator and politician currently serving as a professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway. He's covered the wars in Ukraine and Iran.
Global Investigative Journalism Network
an international association of nonprofit organizations that support, promote and produce investigative journalism.
GZERO MEDIA
a digital news and media company dedicated to providing intelligent, non-partisan, and trustworthy geopolitical insights and analysis. Founded in 2017 by renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer, the company operates as a subsidiary of Eurasia Group, the world’s leading global political risk research and advisory firm.
GZERO has regularly covered the Gaza genocide.
Haaretz
An Israeli daily newspaper ublished in Hebrew and English. They claim it was founded in 1918.
Hamshahri
A major Iranian national Persian-language newspaper in Tehran, owned by the municipal government.
Havas Media
Since 2024, Havas Media Group has subcontracted seven firms in the United States to conduct influence operations on behalf of Israel. As of 2026, Havas Media Group has received more than $100 million from the government of Israel to support its public relations (hasbara) efforts by subcontracting projects to US companies that target evangelical Christians, conservatives, young people, and artificial intelligence chatbots.
Ian Bremmer
an American political scientist, author, and entrepreneur focused on global political risk. He is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm. He is also founder of GZERO Media, a digital media firm.
Murtaza Hussain
a reporter at The Intercept who focuses on national security and foreign policy.
Noga Tarnopolsky
a Middle East reporter who has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, and The Daily Beast and New York Magazine, and others. She regularly appears on France 24 TV and has also appeared on MSNBC, the BBC and TelevisaUnivision, NPR, and the BBC World Service.
Palestine Monitor
an organization that advocates for the Palestinian people, and publicizes conditions in the Gaza and West Bank. Topics featured by the Palestine Monitor include poverty, torture, the Israeli West Bank barrier, checkpoints, refugees, and East Jerusalem.
Part of the Problem
Dave Smith brings you the sharpest libertarian analysis of current events, foreign policy, and the growing tyranny of the state. No punches pulled, no truth left untold, just pure, consistent libertarianism
Peter Beinart
an American liberal columnist, journalist, and political commentator. A former editor of The New Republic, he has also written for Time, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books, among other periodicals. He has written four books.
2006 book: The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again.
2010 book: The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
2012 book: The Crisis of Zionism
2025 book: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Plus 972 Magazine
aka: +972 Magazine
+972 Magazine is an Israeli left-wing news and opinion online magazine, established in August 2010 by a collective of four writers in Tel Aviv. Noam Sheizaf, a co-founder and the +972 chief executive officer, said they wanted to express a new and "mostly young voice which would take part in the international debate regarding Israel and Palestine".
Rami George Khouri
A Jordanian-American journalist, author, lecturer, and editor with Palestinian background.
Richard Wolff
an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs at The New School. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City College of New York, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and The Brecht Forum in New York City.
He views Israel as a settler colonial state.
Rula Jebreal
A Palestinian foreign policy analyst, journalist, novelist, and screenwriter with dual Israeli and Italian citizenship. She was a commentator for MSNBC.
YouTube: WORLD WAR IRAN? How Trump & Israel Could Trigger Global Chaos with RULA JEBREAL
Ryan Grim
an American author and journalist. In July 2024, Grim and The Intercept's co-founder Jeremy Scahill left The Intercept to co-found Drop Site News. He and conservative journalist Emily Jashinsky were the regular Friday hosts of Rising before they resigned in September 2022 and joined Breaking Points.
Saagar Enjeti
an American journalist and political podcast host currently co-hosting the American political news and opinion series Breaking Points alongside Krystal Ball.
SEPHA News
The official news platform of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Sepha is Persian for soldiers or corps.
Sludge
A website that focuses on how monied interests are shaping politics. Run by Donald Shaw and David Moore.
Steve Bannon
an American media executive, Republican political strategist, pundit and former investment banker. He served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of President Donald Trump's first administration before Trump fired him. He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News. Since 2019, Bannon has hosted the War Room podcast.
He has referred to himself as a "proud Christian Zionist" in reference to his support of Israel. Bannon reportedly spoke often with Trump donor Sheldon Adelson, and was alarmed at a push for a renewed Middle East peace process. He has described Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas as a "terrorist". He has advocated giving the land in the West Bank to Jordan and in Gaza to Egypt. In 2025, Bannon suggested a Three-state solution, which would include a Christian state.
In May 2025, Bannon voiced opposition to a bipartisan proposal that would expand anti-BDS laws punishing the boycott of Israel.
The Electronic Intifada
an online publication covering the Israeli–Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective. It is published by the nonprofit organization the Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society, which is based in Chicago.
The Intercept
An American left-wing and progressive nonprofit news organization that publishes articles and podcasts online. It tends to be critical of Israel and the Gaza genocide.
The Jerusalem Post
The Lever
An American reader-supported investigative news outlet founded by David Sirota, a former speechwriter and senior adviser for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign.
The Palestine Chronicle
The Palestine Chronicle, also known as People Media Project, is an American nonprofit news website that covers local and international news related to Palestine, reporting from a Palestinian perspective. The organization was founded in September 1999 by Palestinian-American journalist Ramzy Baroud.
The Times of Israel
an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012 and has since become the largest English-language Jewish and Israeli news source by audience size. It was co-founded by Israeli journalist David Horovitz, who is also the founding editor, and American billionaire investor Seth Klarman.
