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News Literacy: How to Judge Anonymous Sources
This article is part of a series on news literacy, to educate readers to better judge
Pesach Benson
July 12, 2017
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This article is part of a series on news literacy, to educate readers to better judge
Reducing the conflict to “Israel = bad; Palestinians = good” is not only false and unhelpful but is counterproductive to efforts for tolerance, dialogue, education, and improved relations between Israelis and Palestinians. All it does is make the activists feel better about themselves. Thom Yorke understands this. We can only hope that other artists follow his lead.
UPDATE The Independent notified HonestReporting by email that the slide show has been taken down
The LA Times accuses Israel of demonizing and excluding BDS activists, who it misrepresents as merely opposing the occupation – but why is the LA Times less concerned about the hateful, vitriolic BDS movement that demonizes and excludes Israel and Jews, while perpetuating hatred and violence towards them?
In a significant success for HonestReporting, Newsweek retracts two biased stories by Tom O’Connor and apologizes for the errors.
Prominent Arab American commentator James Zogby claims that “hardline supporters of Israel” are responsible for hate campaigns against US Arabs and Muslims.
As Indian Prime Minister Navendra Modi visits Israel, the Daily Mail’s Mail Online India implies that Tel Aviv is the Israeli capital. HR gets the correction.
Following HonestReporting’s complaints, has The Guardian finally acknowledged that the Temple Mount and not the Western Wall, is Judaism’s holiest site?
UPDATE Newsweek has retracted the story and publicly apologized. See more here. Tom
Writing in the International Business Times, anti-Israel columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown creates a perversion of reality.
An Irish Times photo caption erroneously places a woman praying in the men’s section of the Western Wall.
In the Huffington Post’s article entitled “Trump is Undermining The Fight Against Terrorism” contributor Hossein Askari says:
On Australian Channel 9’s 60 Minutes, Liam Bartlett produces an appallingly one-sided report on settlements using a Palestinian narrative and outright distortions.
The Independent’s reports on Al Quds Day downplay Iran’s genocidal opposition to Israel while labeling its president a “moderate.”
Newsweek’s Tom O’Connor (Twitter: @ShaolinTom) twists Israeli statements and Jewish history to draw the convoluted conclusion that all of Israel is…not Israel.
Foreign journalist Hunter Stuart is exposed to the realities of reporting from Israel and finds that his pro-Palestinian views are dramatically changed as a result.
Australian ABC Radio’s Counterpoint presents the Six-Day War as “50 years of aggression” while giving a platform for Professor Amin Saikal’s historical distortions.
On Friday terrorists shot and stabbed Israelis in Jerusalem, and managed to kill 23 year
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