Dishonest Reporter Awards
Dishonest Reporter of the Year Award 2017
The biggest surprise of this year’s Dishonest Reporter Award is that the winner has never
Pesach Benson
December 26, 2017
The biggest surprise of this year’s Dishonest Reporter Award is that the winner has never
Since when was Israeli control over the Western Wall up for negotiation? Not according to the New York Times.
Some media accuse Israel of wounding hundreds of Palestinian protesters using “live fire” even though the IDF employed rubber bullets and tear gas to control rioting.
The New York Times primer on the Jerusalem issue falsely implies that Israel simply “seized” Jerusalem in both 1948 and 1967.
Writing in the Daily Mail, historian Dominic Sandbrook makes sweeping and inaccurate generalizations, historical statements lacking in context, and even falls for the very propaganda he claims to oppose.
As Israel demolishes illegally built Palestinian structures in the West Bank, The Independent’s Bethan McKernan does her own demolition job in a series of one-side stories lacking in balance and omitting relevant facts.
An “exclusive” non-story in The Independent about an Israeli teenage girl jailed for refusing IDF military service is rehashed in the Daily Telegraph minus the nuances in the original.
Israeli-Palestinian tensions continued to rise over the Temple Mount this weekend. On Friday night, a
HonestReporting’s Simon Plosker accompanies journalists to see for himself what is going on in Jerusalem’s Old City as Palestinians “boycott” prayers on the Temple Mount.
UPDATE The Independent notified HonestReporting by email that the slide show has been taken down
In a significant success for HonestReporting, Newsweek retracts two biased stories by Tom O’Connor and apologizes for the errors.
Writing in the International Business Times, anti-Israel columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown creates a perversion of reality.
On Australian Channel 9’s 60 Minutes, Liam Bartlett produces an appallingly one-sided report on settlements using a Palestinian narrative and outright distortions.
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.
The Sunday Times features tourism in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc but fails to add some much-needed context.
Why are some media claiming Hamas no longer calls for the destruction of Israel and its new manifesto is even meant to promote the peace process?
The New York Times gives op-ed space to Marwan Barghouti but presents him as a political prisoner and fails to disclose that he is a convicted Palestinian terrorist murderer.
Three Israelis are injured in a Palestinian stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City. According to the Daily Beast, the attacks “allegedly” took place.
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