An error by the Associated Press concerning Israel’s capital can have widespread ramifications, particularly if the AP refuses to correct.
The Age states that a former Israeli living in Melbourne owns a chain of “pro-Zionist gyms.” Who works out at one of those?
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres did not call on Israel to open the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, which is administered solely by Egypt. HR gets the correction.
David Rothkopf’s critique of Benjamin Netanyahu in the Washington Post claims that Israel ‘suppresses its majority population.” How could this be if the majority of Israelis are Jewish and living in a democracy?
An inflammatory International Business Times headline falsely states that Israeli Jews are fighting for Isis, even though most of those Israelis were Arabs and converts to Islam.
Writing in the LA Times, Human Rights Watch employee Abier Almasri describes life in Gaza without electricity yet places responsibility on Israel as the “occupying power.”
Australia’s ABC Radio edits a transcript of an introduction to an interview on Gaza’s electricity crisis, deliberately removing a statement that Israel had cut the electricity at the request of the Palestinian Authority.
HonestReporting prompts the International Business Times to make two corrections following a faulty photo caption and a reversed timeline of events that falsely made Israel the instigator of violence.
“Palestine” is the fastest growing tourism destination of 2017 so far. So why did the Telegraph’s use a photo of the Temple Mount to illustrate this? HonestReporting gets the correction.
In a significant success for HonestReporting, Newsweek retracts two biased stories by Tom O’Connor and apologizes for the errors.
Sky News misleadingly implies that the Jewish holy site of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron is actually a Muslim site built centuries later.
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
An Irish Times photo caption erroneously places a woman praying in the men’s section of the Western Wall.
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.
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