
The Honest Take is HonestReporting's long-form interview series bringing together leading experts, journalists, and researchers to examine how Israel and the Middle East are covered — and what goes into creating and feeding the narratives that target Israel.
Each episode features leading experts, analysts, researchers, and journalists who work on media bias, terrorism, NGO accountability, foreign... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 6 | Founded | 16 days ago |
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British-Israeli barrister Natasha Hausdorff has spent years inside the world's most powerful international courtrooms — the ICJ, ICC, and UN — watching the legal case against Israel get built in real time. She joins Ben Chertoff to take the genocide ... more
On May 11, Nicholas Kristof published a column in the New York Times titled "The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians" - a 1,500-word piece alleging systematic sexual violence by Israeli security forces, grounded in anonymous testimonies and s... more
Yossi Klein Halevi grew up the son of Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn. As a teenager, he joined Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League. Then he moved to Israel, broke with extremism, and wrote a book called Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor - released ... more
Welcome to The Honest Take, the new long-form interview podcast from HonestReporting.
For 25 years, HonestReporting has been the global watchdog on media bias against Israel — monitoring newsrooms, calling out distortion, and forcing corrections fro... more
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The long-form interview series concentrates on media coverage of Israel and the Middle East, examining how narratives are shaped, amplified, and sometimes distorted in Western newsrooms. Episodes frequently feature journalists, researchers, and analysts who dissect reporting practices, editorial processes, and the role of NGOs, international bodies, and foreign influence in shaping public perception. Notable threads across episodes include rigorous sourcing and fact-checking, debates over casualty reporting and narratives like Nakba or antisemitism on campus, and calls for accountability and transparency in journalism. The format often centers around critical examinations of media bias, with guests offering historical context, evidence-base... more
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Recent guests on The Honest Take include:
1. Rachel O'Donoghue
2. Yossi Klein Halevi
3. Jonathan Harounoff
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5. Hillel Neuer
6. David Christopher Kaufman
7. Ashley Rindsberg
8. Yardena Schwartz
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