Caroline B. Glick
JNS, Dec. 19, 2021
“Barak Ravid is more of a left-wing activist than a reporter. And to advance his personal war against the right, he has a knack for making marginal bloviations the heart of his stories and reducing major events to idle gossip.”
How are we supposed to understand journalist Barak Ravid’s dramatic exposés regarding former U.S. President Donald Trump’s relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?
Ravid’s initial revelation—which was splashed across Yedioth Ahronoth‘s front page on Dec. 10—had Trump cursing Netanyahu in the coarsest possible language for his belated congratulatory message to Joe Biden after Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential race. Although jarring, Trump’s expletive-laced tirade against Netanyahu was easy enough to explain, because it was textbook “Ravid journalism.” Barak Ravid is more of a left-wing activist than a reporter. And to advance his personal war against the right, he has a knack for making marginal bloviations the heart of his stories and reducing major events to idle gossip.
Caroline Glick is an award-winning columnist and author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.”
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.