Harriet Sherwood A chance encounter with a wrecked airplane in the West Bank exposes Harriet Sherwood’s airhead journalism. Her curiousity piqued, The Guardian posted a query to readers of her blog...
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.
Yet Another Israeli Spy Scandal?
What does the media do when an Israeli spy story actually involves no Israelis?
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,...
Report: Guardian Editorial Line Opposes Two-State Solution
Media monitoring organization Just Journalism has released a report documenting how The Guardian’s external commentaries reflect the paper’s editorial line that goes beyond simply endorsing...
Guardian Deliberately Fails to Correct Error
Only yesterday, I caught Guardian correspondent Harriet Sherwood in yet another of her misguided and erroneous descriptions of the Western Wall as “the holiest site in Judaism”, while promoting...
Guardian’s Israel Correspondent Still Clueless
Harriet Sherwood The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood just keeps demonstrating her gross ignorance of the region that she is meant to be covering. In May we caught her mistakenly claiming that Israel’s...
Guardian’s Cycle of Poor Reporting
The Guardian’s coverage of Thursday’s terror attack near Eilat, Palestinian rockets on southern Israel and Israeli responses continues the paper’s long history of anti-Israel bias. What...
Guardian Journalist Responds to HR Blog Post
Martin Wainwright A few days ago I blogged the inherent irony of Guardian journalist Martin Wainwright’s comments when interviewed on Israeli radio about the UK riots: Pictures of any sort of disorder...
UK Riots: The Guardian Pot Calls the Kettle Black
Someone alerted me to this little gem he heard on Israel’s Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) on its breakfast show this morning. Discussing the riots in the UK, The Guardian’s Martin Wainwright was...
