[Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News] Hasby Awards 2014 being announced this week

It is awards season, and they aren't all being held in Hollywood.

This year, to keep the suspense going, I will be announcing the Hasby Award winners throughout the week,  with 2 or 3 awards given out every day. 

Here is the official list of nominees, based on EoZ reader input:

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

Arsen Ostrovsky 
Margie in Tel Aviv 
CiFWatch 
No Camels
William Daroff 

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

Douglas Murray 
Melanie Phillips 
Gatestone Institute(
Charles Krauthammer
Walter Russell Mead 
Brett Stephens (WSJ) 

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

Caroline Glick 
Martin Kramer 
Daniel Gordis 
Evelyn Gordon 
Sarah Honig 
Khaled Abu Toameh 

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

Algemeiner  
Israel HaYom
Jewish Press 
Tablet 
JPost 
The Tower 
Israel21c 

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
This Ongoing War 
Jews Down Under 
Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers 
5 Minutes for Israel 
IsraelSeen 

BEST PRO-ISRAEL VIDEO

Pat Condell - Patronizing the Palestinians 
"I'm an Israeli Soldier" (Latma) 
Naftali Bennett on CNN 
Boycott Israel by Ari Lesser 


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

IDF (idfnadesk) on YouTube 
StandWithUs (FB, YouTube) 
Sussex Friends of Israel Facebook 
Einat Wilf's Facebook 


BEST SPEECH
Bibi Netanyahu at Bar Ilan 
Bibi Netanyahu at the UN 


BEST "OWN GOAL" (Anti-Zionists acting so stupid they disgust even disinterested parties)
"Shoot the Jew" at Wits University
Iran's Fake Stealth Fighter

ISM Oakland attacking a girl writing a pro-Israel message in chalk 

BEST ARTICLE
Will we ever be forgiven the Holocaust? (Howard Jacobson) 
There is nothing remotely progressive in today's left wing loathing of Israel (Brendan O'Neill) 

BEST INDIVIDUAL EXAMPLE OF HASBARA

Ed Klinger's note on the BDS MacBook 
Brighton BDS Counter-protest
David G's NYT Op-Ed Index 2012 
IDF Girls Gone Wild (parts 1, 2, 3) 
UN interpreter hot mic  

In addition, I will present a special award or two. And, like last year, I will put out a press release with all the awardees.

Good luck to the nominees! 

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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 1/26/2014 12:23:00 AM