The 2014 Dishonest Reporting Awards (Honest Reporting)

Austria

Vienna Saudi school ordered closed over anti-Semitism charges (Times of Israel)

Bahrain

Britain to Build Permanent Middle East Military Base in Bahrain - Chris Johnston (Guardian-UK)

Egypt

Erdogan Declares Birth Control Treason (al-Monitor)

Iran

Observations: Iran Accelerates Arming of Hizbullah and Hamas- Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall (ICA-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Iranian Support Seen Crucial for Yemen's Houthis - Yara Bayoumy and Mohammed Ghobari (Reuters)

Iranian Regime Escalates Threats to Annihilate Israel (MEMRI)

Iraq

Report: ISIS Executes 150 Women for Refusing to Marry Militants (Anadolu-Turkey)

Iran's "Boots on the Ground" in Iraq - Lawrence A. Franklin (Gatestone Institute)

ISIS Diverts River in Iraq, Threatening Water Supply for 150,000 (Al Arabiya)

Iraq crisis: The last Christians of Dora- Richard Spencer (The Telegraph)

Partners for Peace?

Come All Ye Haters: NGO Exploitation of Religious Themes to Demonize Israel - NGO Monitor

Why Do Palestinians Reject Israeli Offers of a Palestinian State in Return for Peace? - Jeff Robbins (Boston Globe)

At Birthday Parade, Hamas Vows to Destroy Israel (RT-Russia)

Gaza Reconstruction Materials Diverted to Hamas for Tunnel Repairs (Jerusalem Post)

Abbas' advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: All of "Palestine" will "return" to Palestinians through "resistance" - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

Hamas: We Will Not Be Satisfied with a Palestinian State within 1967 Lines; We Thank Iran for Weapons, Rockets(MEMRI)

Saudi Arabia

MERRY CHRISTMAS, AMERICA: Saudi Arabia isn’t flooding the oil market to cripple America’s shale revolution, it’s doing it to win favor with Washington by weakening Russia and Iran (Foreign Policy)

Sweden

Sweden's Christmas Present: New Laws Curbing Free Speech – Timon Dias (Gatestone Institute)

Syria

Iran as an Occupying Force in Syria - Fouad Hamdan and Shiar Youssef (Middle East Institute)

Arabs on Social Media: CIA Torture Pales in Comparison to Practices in Arab World (Ynet News) According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, up to 12,000 people have died in more than 100 Syrian detention centers since the beginning of its civil war. 

Islamists Rout Syrian Government Troops - Mousab Alhamadee (McClatchy)

Report: ISIS Executed 100 Foreign "Deserters" - Erika Solomon (Financial Times-UK)

United States of America

Op-Ed: Light a Candle for Jonathan Too – Barouch Levy (Arutz Sheva) The recent words of former CIA director, James Woolsey, indicate that Pollard is imprisoned "for no good reason". Jonathan Pollard did not harm American security. Hopefully, he'll be pardoned in 2015.

Video: Why Can't We Have a "Conversation" about Militant Islam?(Lawfare Project) When Major Nidal Hasan went on a murdering spree at Fort Hood, the U.S. government classified his act of terrorism as workplace violence, with no mention of him screaming, "Allah is great," as he gunned down 13 fellow soldiers. References to Islam and Jihad have been removed from the FBI's training manuals.

U.S. to Accept 10,000 Syrian Refugees - Barbara Slavin (Al-Monitor)