Netanyahu Tells European Leaders Concern for Palestinian Rights Is "Crazy"
Israel's prime minister urged four European leaders to help him undermine a provision of a trade agreement that obliges Israel to respect human rights.
Robert Mackey
Robert Mackey wrote about national and international news through the prism of social media for The Intercept. Before joining as a Senior Writer, he was a reporter and columnist for the New York Times, where he anchored the newspaper’s breaking news blog, The Lede, for five years, and wrote a news analysis column, Open Source, from 2014 to 2016. His work is focused on making sense of events through the close reading of firsthand accounts, photographs, and video posted on social networks by witnesses and participants.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
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Election Insecurity
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Trump either “pressed” Putin to admit that Russia helped him get elected, or told the Russian that he accepted his claim that he had nothing to do with it.
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A Louisiana representative was criticized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial for recording a political message during a recent visit to the death camp.
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Donald Trump interrupted a phone call to Ireland's new leader to ask a "beautiful" Irish reporter where she was from, and praise her "nice smile."
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