The seeds of HonestReporting were planted at the very outbreak of the Second Intifada – on September 29, 2000. Why did the “mainstream media” automatically assume that the victim was Palestinian and Israel was the aggressor? From my home in central Israel, I had been looking forward to a relaxing High Holiday season with my family. Day after day, month after month, HonestReporting had been chiseling away – another critique and another email alert – and finally the dam burst. Shraga Simmons was the co-founder of HonestReporting, and is the author of “David & Goliath”, the definitive account of anti-Israel media bias.