Known as the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, Tisha B’Av commemorates destruction and loss. Yet the holiday belies another important point: Jews were here first. And with modern Zionism: an ancient, indigenous people have finally returned to their native land.
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As President Donald Trump declares US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, some media made a muck up of their facts.
Who were the “native people” who lived in Judea during the time of the Romans and why is it so hard for the BBC to acknowledge it was the Jews?
The Guardian crudely refers to the “Israeli regime.” HonestReporting gets the correction.
The UK doesn’t recognize a Palestinian state. The Palestinians have a diplomatic mission, not an embassy. So why do media outlets refer to the Palestinian “ambassador?”
The Guardian’s headline falsely implies that UK politician Priti Patel wanted to send British aid money to the Israeli army.
Writing in the Daily Mail, historian Dominic Sandbrook makes sweeping and inaccurate generalizations, historical statements lacking in context, and even falls for the very propaganda he claims to oppose.
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The Independent’s Bethan McKernan relies on false terrorist propaganda to incorrectly claim an air strike on a terror tunnel in Gaza.
The Daily Telegraph removes a reference to the “current government in Tel Aviv” following a complaint from HonestReporting.
If The Independent is going to opine about the alleged evils of the Balfour Declaration, the least it can do is get the facts right. HonestReporting gets a correction.
Media outlets, including the BBC, Washington Post and The Guardian all fail to mention that the IDF’s destruction of a terror tunnel from Gaza took place on the Israeli side of the border.
If you have to misrepresent facts to make your point, chances are you’re just plain wrong.
The Daily Mail’s Mail Online erroneously blames the Israeli police rather than Facebook for a bizarre Arabic mistranslation that led to the wrongful arrest of a Palestinian.
ABC News Australia misleadingly states that a bugle blown 100 years ago at the Battle of Beersheba is “heading back to Palestine.”
The Associated Press claims that Israeli PM Netanyahu loves Trump and hates Obama because he prefers leaders who oppose human rights. Only one problem: when you actually do the research, it turns out that none of it is true.
In a blatant example of imbalanced reporting, the BBC includes a video interview with a prominent pro-BDS activist in a story yet fails to include a counterpoint.
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