Bias by the Numbers – April-May 2017
HonestReporting crunches the numbers to compare the Israel-related media cultures in Britain and the United States.
HonestReporting crunches the numbers to compare the Israel-related media cultures in Britain and the United States.
Col. (Res.) Grisha Yakubovich, former Head of the Civilian Department in the IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit, explains the Gaza electricity crisis and its implications for Israel.
On the i24 News program The Spin Room with Ami Kaufman: Deputy Minister of Defense,
Despite his impressive academic qualifications, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou makes up Israeli “invasions” of Gaza in Swiss media outlet Le Temps.
Ever since 1979, the last Friday of Ramadan is Al Quds Day: described as a
Conn Mac Gabhann visited Israel purportedly to “better understand the political situation of the region.” Unfortunately though, it doesn’t seem that he gained much understanding at all.
The Sunday Times features tourism in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc but fails to add some much-needed context.
La Croix journalist Mélinée Le Priol is forced to apologize after HR France exposes a Facebook post comparing Israel to ISIS.
Australian ABC News advocacy journalist Sophie McNeill paints a picture of Palestinian suffering while failing to adequately acknowledge Israeli security concerns.
These parody headlines would be funny if they didn’t hit so close to home: they are taken directly from real headlines about terror attacks in Israel.
As the world mourns with Manchester, we remember that the world rarely mourns with Israel: instead, headlines mourn the death of Israel’s attackers and calls their violence, “alleged,” while diligently avoiding the word, “terrorism.”
The Washington Post published a series on the anniversary of the Six Day War, with
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.”
Wanganui Chronicle columnist Fred Frederikse concocts an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory linking American-born Jewish political figures to a US-Saudi Arabia arms deal.
When discussing Israeli checkpoints The Washington Post throws professionalism out the window: in favor of slamming Israel in a shameless piece of what is essentially Palestinian propaganda, disguised as news.
HonestReporting prompts a correction from The Independent after Israel’s security barrier by Bethlehem is described as an “occupation wall.”
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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The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont erroneously refers to the Western Wall, rather than the Temple Mount, as Judaism’s holiest site, not once but three times.
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