Everything from the Sunday Express story on Gaza, including the headline, sub-header and text adds up to an utter train wreck.
The Independent’s coverage of Natalie Portman and the Genesis Prize claims that she campaigned for Israeli “regime change.”
After Israel announces a blacklist of BDS-supporting organizations, how did some media present the aims of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement?
The Daily Mail and Daily Express both use misleading terminology in a conflict where use of language matters.
The US doesn’t recognize a Palestinian state. HonestReporting gets the correction after The Independent erroneously refers to the PLO’s representative to the US as “Ambassador.”
Anti-Semitic and offensive terms and sentences appear in Google’s definitions of “Jew” and “European” courtesy of the Oxford Dictionary. HonestReporting prompts the huge global entity to fix the problem.
The US does not recognize Palestinian statehood yet Haaretz referred to a Palestinian ’embassy’ in Washington D.C. HonestReporting gets the correction.
Israeli Arab singer Ruba Shamshoum was born and raised in the Israeli city of Nazareth. So why does the Irish Times say that she is from “Palestine?”
In sinister style, The Times of London describes former IDF soldier Hen Mazzig as an “agent” when Jewish students were attacked by anti-Israel protesters.
The Guardian crudely refers to the “Israeli regime.” HonestReporting gets the correction.
The UK doesn’t recognize a Palestinian state. The Palestinians have a diplomatic mission, not an embassy. So why do media outlets refer to the Palestinian “ambassador?”
The Sunday Times features tourism in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc but fails to add some much-needed context.
HonestReporting prompts a correction from The Independent after Israel’s security barrier by Bethlehem is described as an “occupation wall.”
The Independent considers Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud to be a “far-right” party.
The Dishonest Reporting Award typically goes to a clear-cut winner. Last year, the BBC won
London’s Evening Standard describes Hamas as a “fundamentalist political party” that Israel accuses of “fostering extremism.”
UPDATE The Evening Standard responded to HR reader complaints by revising the wording of its
Australia’s Channel 9 News publishes a headline accusing Israel of “executing” a Palestinian knife attacker who is referred to in the story as a “fellow.”
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