THEBLACKBOOK AUDIT

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Our investigations stand on Jewish Telegraphic Agency's reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.

The reporting we cite

7 stories, each opening at its source.

Where their work appears on this site

How we graded the claims built on their work

5 FACT · 2 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

  1. A man attacked worshippers at Central Synagogue on Shabbat and is charged, federally, with hate crimes.

    FACT
    The Wrong Villain →
  2. Eisenhower's 1957 Sinai ultimatum — the last time US leverage worked

    FACT
    Israeli Influence on the United States →
  3. Israel's official position, then and now, is that the attack was an accident, and it has apologized and paid compensation on that basis

    FACT
    USS Liberty: the day Israel attacked a US Navy intelligence ship, and Washington helped bury it →
  4. It was not only elected officials: the spiritual heads of governing-coalition parties said it too.

    FACT
    “Not Like Everyone Else”: Israel’s Ideology of Exemption →
  5. Lavon personally and knowingly authorized the operation

    SOME SMOKE
    The Lavon Affair: Operation Susannah and the Israeli false-flag campaign in Egypt →
  6. Rafi Eitan later stated on the record that Prime Minister Peres and Defense Minister Rabin knew of and authorized the operation.

    FACT
    Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
  7. Tantura: Israeli veterans' own testimony increasingly says surrendered prisoners were killed — but the scale, and the alleged mass grave, remain unverified.

    SOME SMOKE
    Partition & the Nakba →