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Fairfax Media’s Extremist Line on Lorde Controversy
This article is cross-posted courtesy of Shalom Kiwi. Media interest in Lorde’s recent decision to
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December 28, 2017
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This article is cross-posted courtesy of Shalom Kiwi. Media interest in Lorde’s recent decision to
An opinion piece by Graham Richardson in The Australian falsely claims that Israeli tanks are “shelling targets in the West Bank and Gaza.”
As President Donald Trump declares US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, some media made a muck up of their facts.
ABC News Australia misleadingly states that a bugle blown 100 years ago at the Battle of Beersheba is “heading back to Palestine.”
Despite Australia not recognizing Palestinian statehood, the Daily Mail unilaterally upgrades the Palestinian diplomatic representation to that of an embassy with an ambassador.
The Age states that a former Israeli living in Melbourne owns a chain of “pro-Zionist gyms.” Who works out at one of those?
Australia’s ABC Radio edits a transcript of an introduction to an interview on Gaza’s electricity crisis, deliberately removing a statement that Israel had cut the electricity at the request of the Palestinian Authority.
Intentional car ramming is terrorism all over the world except one place. Guess where?
On Australian Channel 9’s 60 Minutes, Liam Bartlett produces an appallingly one-sided report on settlements using a Palestinian narrative and outright distortions.
Australian ABC Radio’s Counterpoint presents the Six-Day War as “50 years of aggression” while giving a platform for Professor Amin Saikal’s historical distortions.
Australian ABC News advocacy journalist Sophie McNeill paints a picture of Palestinian suffering while failing to adequately acknowledge Israeli security concerns.
Wanganui Chronicle columnist Fred Frederikse concocts an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory linking American-born Jewish political figures to a US-Saudi Arabia arms deal.
A Sharon Murdoch cartoon in the Sunday Star Times draws upon anti-Semitic tropes to suggest that New Zealand’s new foreign minister is being controlled by a bloodthirsty Israel.
The Australian’s headline falsely portrays Israeli police as the aggressors following an attempted stabbing carried out by a Palestinian female assailant.
A second Palestinian stabbing attack in the space of a few days – a second headline fail from The Australian.
A Palestinian is shot by Israeli border police in an attempted stabbing attack in Jerusalem. The Australian’s headline only tells half the story.
ABC Australia’s primer video on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for children is not simplification but distortion and falsification.
Paul McGeogh is so focused on searching for similarities between Israel and North Korea, he neglects the most basic facts and glaring differences that would make any sort of comparison totally void.
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