Tom Gross is a British journalist and media commentator who runs the influential Mideast media analysis website TomGross.net. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2011 and 2017, focusing on Middle East affairs, Israel, and critiques of mainstream media coverage of the region. He previously served as a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph and the New York Daily News.
With President Donald Trump having ordered pinpoint attacks on President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons infrastructure overnight, finally someone is enforcing President Obama's 2013 red line and possibly reversing the course of decades of Western appeasement of the regime of Bashar Assad—and…
If anyone needs further evidence of why the news agencies often can’t be trusted to report accurately on Israel and the Palestinians, and why major news outlets such as the New York Times and the BBC should stop repeating agency copy without verifying it, here is an important example from this…
On February 12, the Pentagon quietly declassified a top-secret 386-page Department of Defense document from 1987 detailing Israel's nuclear program – the first time Israel’s alleged nuclear program has ever been officially and publically referenced by the U.S. authorities.
Yesterday evening’s Copenhagen synagogue shooting is yet another attack on Jews as Jews -- just as we have witnessed such attacks at the Toulouse Jewish primary school, the Brussels Jewish museum, the Paris kosher supermarket, the firebombing of the synagogue in the German city of Wuppertal, and at…
An attack two weeks ago that destroyed an advanced Russian missile shipment delivered to Syria’s Assad regime should also serve as a warning to Iran – and to those complacent Western diplomats who have (dangerously in my view) reconciled themselves to the idea of allowing Iran to go nuclear and…
I first met Václav Havel in 1988, shortly after he had been released from prison and a year before he led his country out of the Communist abyss. As a young undergraduate in England I had decided to travel round eastern Europe that summer, and was given various books and other materials to smuggle…