Skip to content
  • Editorial
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • Interviews
    • Photo Essays
  • Books
  • Photos
  • Sounds
  • Podcasts
  • About
  • thebattleground
    DONATE
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • Interviews
    • Photo Essays
    SHARE
    FacebookEmailShare
    Politics

    When the Press Fails


    Aperture Priorities Contact Sheet #10

    Joel Schalit / 12 Feb 2024

    I’m not a defence correspondent. But for six years, I edited military reporting for Israeli media.

    Erasing the graffiti. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels.

    The work came naturally. Like many journalists from Israeli families, I had enough personal experience to start the job.

    The rest was learned through work. Not that there was much to figure out except the editorial requirements.

    The final two years, reviewing articles on rising clashes in the West Bank, it was clear something bigger was on the way.

    Not one of the IDF’s periodic campaigns in Gaza but a proper war along the lines of the first Lebanon conflict in 1982.

    Continue reading in this week’s newsletter.

    Photograph courtesy of Joel Schalit. All rights reserved.

    140
    MOST READ
    • 11/09
      Politics
      40 Ways to Fight Fascists
      Spencer Sunshine

    • 03/06
      Culture
      Aryan Aztlan
      Alex Gendler

    • 28/11
      Politics
      Just Say Genocide
      Avgi Saketopoulou

    RELATED SEE ALL

    Human rights crisis. Marolles, Brussels.
    Politics by Joel Schalit / 19 Aug 2026

    Good News From The Battleground

    Letter From the Editor

    It wasn’t supposed to go this well. As July drew to a close, The Battleground recorded its highest monthly readership ever.(…)

    Politics by John Foster / 14 Aug 2026

    How Migration Became Meloni’s Undoing

    Racism, Populism and the Politics of Blame

    Giorgia Meloni’s attempt to score political points at Pedro Sánchez’s expense has backfired spectacularly.(…)

    Arrested protestor. Washington DC, 2005.
    Politics by Ari Paul / 10 Aug 2026

    In Search of the American Antiwar Movement

    Ruthless Cosmopolitan

    Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again war against Iran is unpopular with the American public, according to various polls.(…)

    Europe and Beyond

    • Editorial Inquiries
    • Privacy policy
    • Cookie policy
    Battleground logo

    Copyright 2026, TheBattleground.eu - All rights reserved