The Daily Mail’s Mail Online publishes a story accusing Israeli forces of demolishing graves in a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. Except it never happened.
While the death of wheelchair-bound Palestinian protester Ibrahim Abu Thraya creates headlines, the media fail to question the multiple versions, all blaming Israel for how he lost his legs.
How can the New York Times commission Nada Homsi, the granddaughter of Palestinian refugees, to write a story on Palestinian refugees without a full disclosure?
Since when was Israeli control over the Western Wall up for negotiation? Not according to the New York Times.
Following a complaint from HonestReporting, the Associated Press issues a correction after erroneously referring to the Western Wall rather than the Temple Mount as Judaism’s holiest site.
Foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini never said the EU recognizes Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital. Nor does the rest of the international community. HR gets The Independent to correct the error.
Some media accuse Israel of wounding hundreds of Palestinian protesters using “live fire” even though the IDF employed rubber bullets and tear gas to control rioting.
The Irish Times and its journalist Lara Marlowe deliberately employ the word “colonization” in order to deny Jews indigenous status in the region.
An opinion piece by Graham Richardson in The Australian falsely claims that Israeli tanks are “shelling targets in the West Bank and Gaza.”
The New York Times primer on the Jerusalem issue falsely implies that Israel simply “seized” Jerusalem in both 1948 and 1967.
The Daily Mail and Daily Express both use misleading terminology in a conflict where use of language matters.
MSNBC / NBC News host Ayman Mohyeldin tweets his support for a one-state solution, effectively promoting the end of Israel as a Jewish state.
As President Donald Trump declares US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, some media made a muck up of their facts.
HonestReporting achieved 20 significant corrections in November 2017, including from Google, the Oxford English Dictionary, CNN and the BBC.
Watchdog of the Week Michael Mendelsohn alerted HonestReporting to a CNN map error resulting in a correction.
A mixture of ignorance and poor editing creates an historical mess of errors in a Daily Mail story.
The US doesn’t recognize a Palestinian state. HonestReporting gets the correction after The Independent erroneously refers to the PLO’s representative to the US as “Ambassador.”
CNN’s feature on global sexual harassment includes a map of the Middle East that marks Israel as an Arab state.
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