Talk:The Jerusalem Post

message: The Jerusalem Post is a newspaper. It has a website (external link) but it is not a website. There are many organizations that exist in the world with websites, but you would not slap a website category onto their individual articles unless the article was specifically about 'a website.' It is the prerogative of the WP editor to remove faulty information from the project, we are always trying to improve it. And certainly, the onus is not on a correcting error who removes a perceived error to go write a new article to rectify that problem. --Shuki 21:15, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  this article is about the newspaper, not a website 

message: I dont think the Jerusalem Post has any political allegiance. Centrism is a specific view of politics and is different from no allegiance. --Shamir1 20:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I don't think it is accurate to say that the Jerusalem Post has a political allegiance and the citation listed is certainly not proof. The editorials printed in the Jpost have a range of opinions. CarlSerafino (talk) 08:50, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political allegiance 

message: I don't know if the content of this section needs to be in this article. It seems like a minor issue of the advertising department or even perhaps a rogue employee using the mailing lists to push a political candidate. Newspapers promte politicians all the time in their content. And even if it was decision to get a few extra bucks, then it is not a 'controversy'. At most a very minor issue, valid as it may be, not needed to be recorded in an encyclopedia. --Shuki 08:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: Would it be relevant to include something about the debate spurred by JP's scandalous article about antisemitism in Norway? 
It has been yanked from their web-page a few times due to errors, and its content has been strongly refuted by prominent Jews and non-jews in Norway. To add to it all, it turns out that their primary source (a jewish officer called "David Weiss") was a hoax. The debate is very interesting, and it speaks quite clearly about the attitudes (and quality checking) of JP, but the question is whether this big issue in Norway has noteability enough abroad to be added here. What do you think? pertn (talk) 08:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting issue but I don't think it is notable enough for this article. It would be providing undue weight to an issue that is more specific to Norway itself.ShamWow (talk) 03:12, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  JP scandal in/about Norway 

message: I'm not sure "American Newlyweds in Israel, 1948" is a reliable source by Wikipedia standards.  It seems to be the anecdotal recollections of two people and contains things that history books don't.  For example: "The bomb was intended to kill Post editor Gershon Agron" - since the perpetrator of the bomb was not determined, how do they know what the target was?  It seems like just a personal speculation.  As far as I know, it is not even established for sure that the newspaper was the target (there were a Haganah slick (arms cache) and a Jewish police station in the building too). Zerotalk 02:36, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Material published by the Jewish Historical Society is a perfectly reliable source. If "you know" different, then bring a reference for it.--Gilabrand (talk) 14:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Historical societies often publish anecdotal material.  It is fine that they do that, but it doesn't mean that the material is factually reliable.  By its nature it includes personal assumptions, rumors, and mis-recollections.  If they published the same claim in an article written by a historian, I'd be happy to cite it. Zerotalk 22:04, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This smacks of a double standard. Virtually every article on Palestinian villages uses anecdotal material to claim massacres and expulsion. This material comes from Chapter 95 of a published book, and is an RS unless proven otherwise - and not by your own OR.--Gilabrand (talk) 04:43, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  If an anecdotal account that appears in an article on a Palestinian village contains claims about the motive of a second party that the observer was in no position to observe, let me know and I'll delete it (or you can delete it).  Since the writer in this case was present at the time of the explosion, it would be ok to source a description of the effect and aftermath of the explosion to him. But the claim that the editor was personally the target is a claim clearly outside the ability to observe directly.  I spent quite a while looking at every account I could find and none of them except this one even hinted the bomb was directed personally against the editor.  So at best it is a fringe claim. Zerotalk 06:46, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't look at the sources myself, or look at Zero0000's changes in detail, but the reasoning sounds convincing. I agree that as a general rule we can't use a witness report for verification of something outside the witness' personal experience, even when the witness report is published in a reliable source. The publishing indicates that an editor deemed the factual statements concerning the event to be essentially reliable, not the witness' speculations. Hans Adler 07:06, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  problem with source 

message: This site: [JP] has an article published on this Israeli newspaper , claiming for the return of death penalty to Israel.Agre22 (talk) 13:14, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Jerusalem Post wants death penalty back in Israel

message: For mining: .  We are missing the precursor Palestine Bulletin.  Zerotalk 07:07, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  early history 

message: The introduction contained the rather dubious claim that JP "has a much broader reach than these other newspapers in that its readership comprises Israeli politicians, foreign journalists, and tourists, and it is also distributed worldwide". To begin with, the source said nothing about how broad JP's reach is, and it doesn't compare it to other newspapers. Whatismore, the source was from 1990, and only mentioned this in passing. To use one half of a sentence written more than 20 years ago to claim that JP has a broader reach than other Israeli newspapers is very dubious.Jeppiz (talk) 15:01, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated claim 

message: Is there a source for this paragraph (no source cited within article): "In 2011, the paper fired its outspoken columnist Larry Derfner for a controversial post in his personal blog in which he wrote that Palestinians have a right to kill Israelis to oppose the occupation. The dismissal was criticized by many, most notably former editor-in-chief Jeff Barak." Laval (talk) 16:57, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Source

message: The introduction says it's broadsheet, but the infobox says it's a tabloid. Which is it? Philmac 23:47, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type of newspaper 

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message: I suggest 'the Palestinians' here be changed to 'Palestinian people', since I think 'the Palestinians' sounds demeaning and biased - like when bigots say 'the Jews' or 'the transes' - regardless of the editor's intentions which I'm sure were good faith Stephanie921 (talk) 10:21, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "supportive of the separation of religion and state in Israel and against unilateral concessions to the Palestinians." 

message: Is there a personals page of the JP where we can ask our Israeli friend to let us know how he and his family are doing and if they are safe. 2600:1700:9E10:BAB0:5085:AB94:6FC:2706 (talk) 01:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Searching for Israeli friend