Editing Haaretz (section)

==Editorial policy and viewpoints==
''Haaretz'' describes itself as having "a broadly liberal outlook both on domestic issues and on international affairs",<ref>{{cite news |work=Haaretz |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/about-haaretz-1.63277 |title=About Haaretz |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=14 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114083552/http://www.haaretz.com/news/about-haaretz-1.63277 |url-status=live }}</ref> and has been summarized as being "liberal on security, civil rights and economy, supportive of the Supreme Court, very critical of Netanyahu's government".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dridi|first=Tarak|date=9 July 2020|title=Reporting Strategies of Israeli Print Media: Jerusalem Post and Haaretz as a Case Study|journal=SAGE Open|volume=10|issue=3|doi=10.1177/2158244020936986|s2cid=222080595 |doi-access=free | issn=2158-2440 }}</ref> Others describe it alternatively as [[Liberalism|liberal]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Kaspî |first=Dān |title=Media Decentralization: The Case of Israel's Local Newspapers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JTgj0YnxRkIC&pg=PA16 |date=January 1986 |publisher=[[Transaction Publishers]] |isbn=978-1-4128-2833-8|pages=16–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Ira |last=Sharkansky |author-link=Ira Sharkansky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOfJoCpiMf4C&q=haaretz+liberal+newspaper&pg=PA101 |title=The Politics of Religion and the Religion of Politics: Looking at Israel |publisher=[[Lexington Books]] |year=2000 |isbn=9780739101094 |access-date=11 November 2020 |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131944/https://books.google.com/books?id=yOfJoCpiMf4C&q=haaretz+liberal+newspaper&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q=haaretz%20liberal%20newspaper&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/2583675.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |title=Israeli media vents fury at Likud |date=17 December 2002 |access-date=4 May 2010 |archive-date=3 May 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040503221323/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/2583675.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[centre-left]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Mya Guarnieri |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/201126123643463123.html |publisher=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] |edition=English |title=The death of Israeli democracy |date=6 February 2011 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=5 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005070755/http://english.aljazeera.net//indepth/features/2011/02/201126123643463123.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[left-wing]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3451497.stm |title=Sharon orders Gaza pullout plan |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2 February 2004 |access-date=5 March 2010 |archive-date=3 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203123323/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3451497.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/24/idUSL24528048 |title=Israeli authors urge ceasefire talks with Hamas |work=[[Reuters]] |date=24 September 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006141436/http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/24/idUSL24528048 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21612240-both-sides-consume-fantasy-news-propaganda-war |title=Propaganda war |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=16 August 2014 |access-date=5 March 2010 |archive-date=14 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814210157/http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21612240-both-sides-consume-fantasy-news-propaganda-war |url-status=live }}</ref> and the country's only major left-leaning newspaper.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=I. Mateo|date=Spring 2022|title=The Right-Wing 'One-State Solution': Narrative, Proposals, and the Future of the Conflict|journal=Israel Studies|publisher=Indiana University Press|volume=27|issue=1|pages=132–155|doi=10.2979/israelstudies.27.1.06 |jstor=10.2979/israelstudies.27.1.06|s2cid=247621415 }}</ref> The paper opposes retaining Israeli control over the [[Palestinian territories]] and consistently supports peace initiatives.<ref>''Israel — Hebrew- and English-Language Media Guide'', p. 14</ref> The ''Haaretz'' editorial line is supportive of weaker elements in Israeli society, such as sex workers, foreign laborers, [[Arab citizens of Israel|Israeli Arabs]], [[Ethiopian Jews|Ethiopian immigrants]], and [[1990s Post-Soviet aliyah|Russian immigrants]].<ref name=fas/>

In 2006, the [[BBC]] said that ''Haaretz'' takes a moderate stance on foreign policy and security.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4969714.stm |title=The press in Israel |work=[[BBC News]] |date=8 May 2006 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-date=2 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402011145/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4969714.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[David Remnick]] in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' described ''Haaretz'' as "easily the most liberal newspaper in Israel", its ideology as left-wing and its temper as "insistently oppositional".<ref name=remnick>{{cite news |last=Remnick |first=David |title=The Dissenters |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/28/110228fa_fact_remnick |access-date=12 October 2012 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=28 February 2011 |author-link=David Remnick |archive-date=17 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017003344/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/28/110228fa_fact_remnick |url-status=live }}</ref> According to [[Ira Sharkansky]], ''Haaretz''{{'}}s [[op-ed]] pages are open to a variety of opinions.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sharkansky |first=Ira |author-link=Ira Sharkansky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlhmWNcqlrAC&pg=PA43 |title=Governing Israel: Chosen People, Promised Land, & Prophetic Tradition |publisher=[[Transaction Publishers]] |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |year=2005 |page=43 |isbn=978-0-7658-0277-4 |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131843/https://books.google.com/books?id=dlhmWNcqlrAC&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> [[J. J. Goldberg]], the editor of the American ''[[The Jewish Daily Forward]]'', describes ''Haaretz'' as "Israel's most vehemently anti-[[Israeli settlement|settlement]] daily paper".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://forward.com/articles/104263/are-religious-soldiers-to-blame-for-alleged-abuse/? |title=Are Religious Soldiers To Blame for Alleged Abuse? |first=J. J. |last=Goldberg |author-link=J.J. Goldberg |newspaper=[[The Forward]] |date=3 April 2009 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084833/http://forward.com/articles/104263/are-religious-soldiers-to-blame-for-alleged-abuse/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Stephen Glain of ''[[The Nation]]'' described ''Haaretz'' as "Israel's liberal beacon", citing its editorials voicing opposition to the occupation, the discriminatory treatment of Arab citizens, and the mindset that led to the [[Second Lebanon War]].<ref name=glazin/> A 2003 study in ''[[The International Journal of Press/Politics]]'' concluded that ''Haaretz''{{'}}s reporting of the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]] was more favorable to Israelis than to Palestinians but less so than that of ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="viser">{{cite journal |title=Attempted Objectivity: An Analysis of the New York Times and Ha'aretz and their Portrayals of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict |journal=The International Journal of Press/Politics |date=September 2003 |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=114–120 |doi=10.1177/1081180X03256999 |author=Matt Viser|s2cid=145209853 }}</ref> In 2016, [[Jeffrey Goldberg]], the editor-in-chief of ''[[The Atlantic]]'', wrote: "I like a lot of the people at ''Haaretz'', and many of its positions, but the cartoonish [[anti-Israelism]] and [[anti-Semitism]] can be grating."<ref>[https://www.jta.org/2016/08/02/news-opinion/united-states/journalist-jeffrey-goldberg-under-fire-after-tweeting-he-will-stop-reading-haaretz Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg stirs storm after tweeting he might stop reading Haaretz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311201446/https://www.jta.org/2016/08/02/news-opinion/united-states/journalist-jeffrey-goldberg-under-fire-after-tweeting-he-will-stop-reading-haaretz |date=11 March 2018 }}, JTA, 2 August 2016</ref><ref name="FT201610">[https://www.ft.com/content/252f849c-75a5-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a Amos Schocken, third-generation proprietor of Ha'aretz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311142142/https://www.ft.com/content/252f849c-75a5-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a |date=11 March 2018 }}, Financial Times, John Reed, 3 October 2016</ref>