Bronner had to write the e-mail is because this is how the reporter, Dylan Byers originally framed the change: Bronner's 22-year-old son was* a member of the Israeli Defense Forces, a conflict of interest first raised by the website Electronic Intifada.

Bronner will become the legal affairs reporter at the National desk.

Once the news came out about Bronner’s son serving in the army like most Jewish boys his age in Israel, he was subjected to withering criticism from the pro-Palestinian left as well as a nasty column from Clark Hoyt, the paper’s public editor at the time.

Bronner's 22-year-old son was* a member of the Israeli Defense Forces, a conflict of interest first raised by the website Electronic Intifada. Shortly thereafter, Public editor Clark Hoyt looked into the matter and found that, despite the 'unerring...

While this article isn't completely wrong, I have to take issue with some of the analysis that's presented here. Firstly, and crucially, this article understands the Shiite-Sunni power competition works at an elite level. There's nothing new here. The...