The Honest Take: TRAILER

Welcome to The Honest Take, the new long-form interview podcast from HonestReporting.For 25 years, HonestReporting has been the global watchdog on media bias against Israel — monitoring newsrooms, calling out distortion, and forcing corrections from some of the world's most powerful outlets. The Honest Take is where we go beyond the rapid response and sit down with the people who understand what's really happening: journalists, scholars, lawyers, diplomats, and activists.Hosted by Ben Chertoff, every episode is a sustained conversation about the stories the mainstream keeps getting wrong — antisemitism, the war in Gaza, the UN, campus politics, the future of Jewish life, and the fight for truth in an information war.Subscribe now. New episodes weekly.Featuring voices including Hillel Neuer (UN Watch), Shai Davidai, Yardena Schwartz, Yossi Klein Halevi, and many, many more.

HonestReporting: That double standard, that is the anti-Semitism. October 7th happens in Israel and then October 8th happened in the diaspora. What was really shocking to me as a journalist was to see how 100 years later, how far journalism has fallen. Honest reporting has been defending Israel from media bias since 2000. Monitoring global coverage, calling out distortion, and holding newsrooms accountable. Now, we're opening up the conversation. The Honest Take is our long-form interview series, bringing together the journalists, scholars, lawyers, and activists who see what the headlines miss. No spin, just conversations about the stories that matter. So you kind of buckle up, you suck it up, you go in there, you stand tall, and you speak words of truth. And that's the real danger about this American intellectual antisemitism, that it disguises itself as a moral virtue. I just couldn't help but realize how many other truths of this conflict are hiding in plain sight and how often these inconvenient truths go unreported or unmentioned because of the ways in which they undercut the narrative. You know, the Jewish people, we're one of those ancient peoples that invented the story. And we should be able to do better than we're doing in telling our story. The Honest Take. Subscribe wherever you get your pod. tests.

The Honest Take: TRAILER
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