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Simon Plosker

Simon Plosker

Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020. Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias. Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.
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Simon Plosker

HR Prompts More “Holiest Site” Corrections

HonestReporting prompts corrections from The Times of London, The Independent and Daily Mail following inaccurate references to the Western Wall as “Judaism’s holiest site.”

Down Under
Simon Plosker

Jewish Conspiracy Behind US-Saudi Arms Deal?

Wanganui Chronicle columnist Fred Frederikse concocts an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory linking American-born Jewish political figures to a US-Saudi Arabia arms deal.

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Corrected: “Occupation Wall” Comes Down

HonestReporting prompts a correction from The Independent after Israel’s security barrier by Bethlehem is described as an “occupation wall.”

News Critiques
Simon Plosker

HR Prompts Newsweek to Correct Tel Aviv Error

Following contact from HonestReporting, Newsweek issues a correction to an article that three times implied Tel Aviv was Israel’s capital city or center of political power.

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Macleans: Failure to Disclose

Macleans publishes an article by Madeline Thien but fails to disclose that the book that it is from is a joint project of the radical Breaking the Silence organization.

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Picking the Wrong Signpost

Is The Guardian’s photo choice a deliberate attempt to falsely imply that Arabic is absent from Israeli signs?

Red Alert
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