A few weeks back, during the Olympic games in Beijing, I wrote about China bashing in some of the Israeli media and my concern over the uprising trend of biased if not ignorant reporting about China. I was attempting to promote more cultural understanding and sensitivity in media reporting and highlight some of the [...]

A few weeks back, during the Beijing Olympics, I wrote an article for an Israeli finance newspaper Calcalist about the upcoming Taiwanese Kaohsiung World Games 2009. It was published on the 13th of August in both paper (attached here) and the website. The editors titled it “The Taiwan ‘Olympics’”.
Following is the Hebrew article, followed by [...]

Lots of Israeli/Jewish blogophere coverage of  the Beijing Olympics. JTA has a whole page dedicated to the subject with various interesting posts like “A ’shalom’ from Chinese schoolchildren” and “A bar mitzvah amid the medals” and terrific photos :

But the highlight of it all is definitely their video of asking Chinese folks about [...]

Following is a letter written by a Chinese as a reaction to how the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony was covered by the Israeli channel 1 and a remark by Oren Nehari. It continues the series of posts regarding Sino-phobia in Israeli media and the use of extremely negative language against the Chinese people and government.
Dear [...]