[Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News] Nominations open for 2014 Hasby Awards

It is that time of year again, where we will the celebrate the best Hasbara (Israel advocacy) with the 2014 Hasby Awards!

As with last year, we have a number of categories. I am pre-populating some of them.

Here are the rules, such as they are:

• Fell free to nominate in any category as many examples as you want in the comments. Please include URLs!
• Only nominees that are seconded will be in the running. You can second them in the comments as well. The ones listed here must also be seconded. 
• If you have other categories, feel free to suggest them along with at least one nominee. Some others are listed in last year's nominations page.
• Last year's winners are no longer eligible for awards in the same category they won.
  
  It is obvious that I am not good at remembering specific videos/incidents over the past year, so please help me fill those in!
• I decide who wins, but there will also be People's Choice awards based on a poll.
• I'll put out a press release when the winners are announced, because some of the nominees last year asked me to.
• I reserve the right to decide if a nominee is appropriate and will pare down the number of nominees if needed.
• Please, no extraneous comments on this thread, only nominations, seconds and category suggestions. I will delete them. 
• This thread is not for voting. That will come later. If your favorite candidate is already seconded, don't comment further.
• If someone can offer me a decent venue to give the awards as I did last year and in 2010, I'll be happy to give the awards out live! (I'll be in Israel from December 16-24, back on the East Coast before and after.) But if you do offer me a venue, you'll probably also be subjected to a speech. 

And the categories are:

BEST PRO-ISRAEL TWEETER (Last year's winner: Avi Mayer)

David HaIvri
Martin Kramer
Arsen Ostrovsky
Margie in Tel Aviv
CiFWatch

BEST PRO-ISRAEL MEDIA OUTLET/WRITER NOT EXCLUSIVE TO ISRAEL (Last year's winner: The Commentator)

Douglas Murray
Melanie Phillips
Gatestone Institute
Charles Krauthammer

BEST PRO-ISRAEL COMMENTATOR EXCLUSIVE TO MIDDLE EAST/ISRAEL (Last year's winner: Barry Rubin)

Caroline Glick
Martin Kramer
Daniel Gordis
Evelyn Gordon

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PRO-ISRAEL ONLINE MEDIA OUTLET (Last year's winner: Times of Israel)

Algemeiner
Israel HaYom
Jewish Press 
Tablet
JPost
The Tower

BEST MAINSTREAM MEDIA WATCHDOG (Last year's winner: Honest Reporting)

CAMERA
BBC Watch
CiF Watch
Mideast Media Sampler at Legal Insurrection
Huffington Post Monitor

BEST WATCHDOG - ARABIC MEDIA AND NGOs

MEMRI
Palestinian Media Watch
NGO Monitor
UN Watch

BEST PRO-ISRAEL BLOG (PRESENT COMPANY EXCLUDED) (Last year's winners: Daphne Anson and Missing Peace)

Israellycool
Israel Matzav
Augean Stables
Sultan Knish
This Ongoing War

BEST PRO-ISRAEL VIDEO

BEST PRO-ISRAEL SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE (Facebook, Pinterest, Vine, Scribd, Google+, YouTube...)

BEST SPEECH

Ron Prosor at the UN
Bibi Netanyahu at Bar Ilan


BEST "OWN GOAL" (Anti-Zionists acting so stupid they disgust even disinterested parties)

"Shoot the Jew" at Wits University

BEST ARTICLE

BEST INDIVIDUAL EXAMPLE OF HASBARA

Ed Klinger's note on the BDS MacBook
Brighton BDS Counter-protest

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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 11/14/2013 02:30:00 PM