Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Tom Gross is a British-born journalist, international affairs commentator, and human rights campaigner specializing in the Middle East. In 2014, former Pentagon official Michael Rubin wrote that “Tom Gross is probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East.” He has advocated for the rights of the Roma, Domari, Kurdish and Yazidi minorities, among others.Gross was formerly the Jerusalem correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and for the New York Daily News. He is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, National Review and Huffington Post in the United States, to The National Post in Canada, to The Australian in Australia, and to The India Times in India.In Britain, he has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Spectator and Evening Standard, among other publications; in Israel, for Ha’aretz, Ma’ariv and The Jerusalem Post; and in Iran, for a number of opposition websites.He has also conducted various on stage interviews, including with a French hostage kidnapped by Islamic State in Syria and a Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria.Much of his work has concerned the way the international media covers the Middle East. He has been cited on the subject in papers such as The New York Times and interviewed in Haaretz and on television about this. His article “The Forgotten Rachels” criticizing the “cult of Rachel Corrie” caused a stir. He has been sharply critical of the BBC, arguing that their Middle East coverage is slanted against Israel, (although he has written on his website that it has become less biased in recent years) and has subjected the coverage of Reuters, The Guardian and CNN to scrutiny.He has also been critical of The New York Times, both for their general foreign coverage, and historically for what he terms their “lamentable record of not covering the Holocaust.” “The New York Times,” wrote Gross, “possibly because they feared people might -- wrongly -- think of it as a ‘Jewish’ paper, made sure reports were brief and buried inside the paper. During World War II, no article about the Jews’ plight under the Nazis ever qualified as the Times’ leading story of the day.”Gross has consistently supported the creation of an independent Palestinian Arab state alongside Israel and praised the reforms of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. But he has said that “to be viable and successful it is not only a question of what Israel will give the Palestinians, but of the Palestinians themselves engaging in good governance” and warned that “there is no point in creating a new Palestinian state if it will primarily be used as a launching ground for armed attacks on Israel, which would be likely to in turn only lead to a much bloodier war between Israelis and Palestinians than anything we have witnessed in the past.”He has also written extensively about human rights and advocated that the UN do more to promote human rights worldwide."@en }
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- Tom_Gross abstract "Tom Gross is a British-born journalist, international affairs commentator, and human rights campaigner specializing in the Middle East. In 2014, former Pentagon official Michael Rubin wrote that “Tom Gross is probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East.” He has advocated for the rights of the Roma, Domari, Kurdish and Yazidi minorities, among others.Gross was formerly the Jerusalem correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and for the New York Daily News. He is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, National Review and Huffington Post in the United States, to The National Post in Canada, to The Australian in Australia, and to The India Times in India.In Britain, he has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Spectator and Evening Standard, among other publications; in Israel, for Ha’aretz, Ma’ariv and The Jerusalem Post; and in Iran, for a number of opposition websites.He has also conducted various on stage interviews, including with a French hostage kidnapped by Islamic State in Syria and a Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria.Much of his work has concerned the way the international media covers the Middle East. He has been cited on the subject in papers such as The New York Times and interviewed in Haaretz and on television about this. His article “The Forgotten Rachels” criticizing the “cult of Rachel Corrie” caused a stir. He has been sharply critical of the BBC, arguing that their Middle East coverage is slanted against Israel, (although he has written on his website that it has become less biased in recent years) and has subjected the coverage of Reuters, The Guardian and CNN to scrutiny.He has also been critical of The New York Times, both for their general foreign coverage, and historically for what he terms their “lamentable record of not covering the Holocaust.” “The New York Times,” wrote Gross, “possibly because they feared people might -- wrongly -- think of it as a ‘Jewish’ paper, made sure reports were brief and buried inside the paper. During World War II, no article about the Jews’ plight under the Nazis ever qualified as the Times’ leading story of the day.”Gross has consistently supported the creation of an independent Palestinian Arab state alongside Israel and praised the reforms of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. But he has said that “to be viable and successful it is not only a question of what Israel will give the Palestinians, but of the Palestinians themselves engaging in good governance” and warned that “there is no point in creating a new Palestinian state if it will primarily be used as a launching ground for armed attacks on Israel, which would be likely to in turn only lead to a much bloodier war between Israelis and Palestinians than anything we have witnessed in the past.”He has also written extensively about human rights and advocated that the UN do more to promote human rights worldwide.".