The Guardian and Tzipi Livni

Since working at the Jewish Chronicle, I have discovered that many in the Jewish community will have nothing to do with The Guardian. This is based on the pre-conception that the newspaper of choice of the chattering classes is a pro-Palestinian rag which condones terrorism on the one side while never missing an opportunity to bash the Israeli state.

This is not entirely fair. The Guardian is not a monolith and there is a range of views on the Israel-Palestine conflict at the organisation (and sometimes this even finds its way into the pages of the newspaper). But I was amazed by the coverage yesterday of the Tzipi Livni affair. The reporting was reasonably balanced, although the outrage only seemed to be coming from those who disapproved of David Miliband’s attempts to reassure Israeli politicians that they should be allowed to travel freely to Britain. There is plenty of outrage on the other side too.