The IDF’s closing of an investigation into a tragic incident during the 2009 Gaza conflict has been widely reported. Unsurprisingly, some media have referred back to the UN’s Goldstone Report....
A Year of Dishonest Reporting — Why The Guardian Won
Find out why The Guardian won the Dishonest Reporter Award.
HR Comment: Turkey Tantrum Burying Palmer Report
Only weeks after its release, the Palmer Report into the 2010 Gaza flotilla incident, the media have consigned it to the dustbin of history.
Palmer Report: Israel Vindicated, Media Shrugs
What did the media choose to focus on and emphasize with the publication of the Palmer Report? A grudging acknowledgment that Israel did indeed have a valid case? Not exactly.
The Broken Clock Logic of Palmer’s Rejectionists
Just as a broken clock is still correct once a day, it’s safe to say that the UN will vindicate Israel once in a blue moon. But as I read The Guardian’s staff-editorial on the Palmer report,...
Colonel Richard Kemp: A True Friend
Richard Kemp Today, Israel faces a conspiracy of delegitimization, which aims to give validity and justification to attacks on Israel by groups such as Iran’s proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, allowing...
HR Comment: How Moral Equivalence Erodes Accurate Reporting
When the media fails to make a distinction between Hamas’s aggression and Israel’s defense, it leaves out the essential element of the story that allows people to make sense of what’s happening.
Battle Over Goldstone Report Continues
Judge Richard Goldstone’s Washington Post op-ed admitting he was wrong about key elements in his infamous Goldstone Report on the war in Gaza unleashed a torrent of media coverage over the past week. In...
Judging Goldstone
The Court of World Opinion is now in session. Before us stands Judge Richard Goldstone. The defendant is charged with perjury and a verbal assault on the Jewish State. Judge Goldstone, wasn’t your...
Israel Goes Gaga Over Goldstone, Part 2
Yesterday’s stories that Judge Goldstone would help retract his UN report were too good to be true. AP quotes Goldstone straight from the horse’s mouth: Nevertheless, Goldstone said, he did...
