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Daniel Pomerantz

It Only Sounds Absurd When It’s Not About Israel

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.”

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Yarden Frankl

Video: Headlines Ignore Palestinian Terrorism

It’s not so hard to write a headline like “Palestinian Terrorists Kill Israelis.” Yet for some reason, so many headlines blur the lines between attackers and victims when it comes to Israel.

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Yarden Frankl

A Proper Headline

We have documented many cases of the media, especially the New York Times, using headlines that make Israeli military responses look like unprovoked aggression. Whether Israel is responding to terrorism or rocket fire, the response usually gets the coverage that it absent on the initial act. Our presentation, It All Started When Israel Fired Back, is as valid today as when we first published it 3 years ago.

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Pesach Benson

Another AFP Headline Flub

This weekend, a Palestinian armed with a machine gun opened fire at soldiers on a

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Yarden Frankl

Bad Headline, Worse Picture

It’s tough to decide which is more misleading: The AFP headline or the picture under it.

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Simon Plosker

Jerusalem Terror Attack: Headline Fails

The AP, AFP and BBC all produce appalling headline fails in their coverage of a Palestinian terror attack in Jerusalem that killed a three-month-old baby.

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Pesach Benson

Terror Only Happens in the UK

Sky News is treating a pair of stone throwing incidents with real gravitas while security officials

News Critiques
Pesach Benson

Bungled Headline of the Day

rom this Daily Telegraph headline? You have to read the article to find out the “militant” was

News Critiques
Pesach Benson

Media Cheat Sheet 10/4/2011

For as long as I’ve worked for HonestReporting, my primary job has been to go

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