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HR Gets Politicized Photo Replaced by Business Insider

UPDATE Credit to Business Insider for promptly acknowledging the problem following correspondence with HonestReporting and replacing the inappropriate image with an Israeli woman working in one of the country’s vineyards. * * * Israel…

Simon Plosker
February 18, 2016
12:00 am

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UPDATE

Credit to Business Insider for promptly acknowledging the problem following correspondence with HonestReporting and replacing the inappropriate image with an Israeli woman working in one of the country’s vineyards.

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Israel can be rightly proud that it is the 13th best country in the world for women to work in according to The Economist’s glass-ceiling index.

Business Insider features the top 22 countries complete with illustrative photos. Almost all of the photos feature scenes of people representing those countries with recognizable public figures, locations or national colors.

All except Israel:

The photo appears to show a Jewish settlement in the background and what appears to be a Palestinian structure in the foreground as evidenced by the flag on the roof.

Hardly an appropriate illustration of the status of Israeli women, particularly when compared with the other 21 photos.

Why did Business Insider choose an unrepresentative, politicized and inappropriate photo?

A request to replace the image with something more appropriate has been sent. Watch this space.

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Tags: Business Insider, distortion of facts, Israeli women, photo bias, success, working women

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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