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HR Prompts CTV Israeli “Refugee” Correction
CTV Winnipeg corrects the error after referring to an Israeli immigrant couple assaulted in a knife attack as “refugees.”
Simon Plosker
September 4, 2016
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CTV Winnipeg corrects the error after referring to an Israeli immigrant couple assaulted in a knife attack as “refugees.”
HonestReporting secures corrections from McClatchy and the Daily Mail’s Mail Online.
Is The Observer referring to Tel Aviv in order to avoid referencing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city?
Former South African diplomat Ismail Coovadia launches a vicious attack on Israel in the Pretoria News, including support for terrorism and BDS.
Australian SBS Dateline explores Gaza yet fails to include vital context.
The International Business Times incorrectly claims that the Al-Aqsa mosque is sacred to Jews and has been closed by Israeli authorities.
After a burst pipe in the West Bank, The Independent falsely accuses Israel of denying water to Palestinians.
The Independent reporting on a Palestinian terror attack, refers to Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital. HonestReporting prompts a correction.
A Palestinian terror attack on the Sarona market in Tel Aviv prompts some serious media fails in the immediate aftermath.
Time magazine’s inflammatory and inaccurate headline attributes Avigdor Lieberman as having called for “killing Palestinians.”
The Daily Beast uses an image of a traditional Jewish skullcap to inappropriately draw a linkage between Judaism and a private drug rehab clinic in Israel.
Tell CNN that its headline — labeling a major terrorist attack in Jerusalem as a “bus fire” — was unacceptable.
While reporting on a decline in the number of Palestinian terror attacks, the Financial Times’s headline refers to “Israel attacks.”
Another Palestinian terror attack, another headline fail, this time from Australia’s ABC News.
The results of a survey are interpreted by The Independent to claim that nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in “ethnic cleansing.”
The Guardian refers to right-wing Israeli group Im Tirtzu as “extra-paramilitary.” Was this subconscious bias at work?
Benjamin Netanyahu announces the building of security fences to keep out “beasts” that threaten Israel. The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont misrepresents who the “beasts” really are.
In The Independent, Robert Fisk writes “a few words of history” concerning Israel – a history that doesn’t fit with the facts.
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