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ABC News Australia reports from Israel’s Lebanese border wall but only takes a look from one side, removing political, historical and geographical context.
Daire Louise O’Dowd’s piece for IrishCentral about her experiences in the Palestinian territories is a mess of misinformation, inaccuracies and propaganda.
Gaza is surrounded mostly by a fence. How can Sarah Helm claim that a high wall hides the whole of Gaza from Israel’s view?
Writing in Ireland’s Village magazine, Frank Connolly produces a multitude of blatant inaccuracies and falsehoods in his one-sided and biased anti-Israel piece.
An Israeli expert gathers evidence from open source Palestinian media to show how the majority of the ‘victims’ of the Gaza border confrontations are either affiliated to or military activists in Palestinian terror organizations.
While the death of wheelchair-bound Palestinian protester Ibrahim Abu Thraya creates headlines, the media fail to question the multiple versions, all blaming Israel for how he lost his legs.
HonestReporting prompts a correction from The Independent after Israel’s security barrier by Bethlehem is described as an “occupation wall.”
An author visited the West Bank on a trip with Breaking the Silence, and wrote an essay in which she completely denies Jewish ties to Israel, while demonizing and dehumanizing Israelis – and the Irish Times promotes her hateful, false narrative.
The Independent’s ironic choice of photo to illustrate French labeling of settlement goods also contains a glaring caption error.
The New York Times features Israel’s security barrier but leaves the false impression that the structure is entirely a wall.
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.
The Telegraph changes its headline that suggested that Israel’s planned security fence on its Jordan border was aimed at keeping Syrian refugees out.
The graphic accompanying the July 19 article (“Building Trump’s border wall not exactly “easy” experts say” claims that Israel’s separation barrier is made of prefabricated concrete sections interspersed with watch towers. In fact, only 64% of the barrier has been constructed to date and of the completed portion, 90% is made up of chain-link fencing. The drawing implies that the entire route resembles a prison wall and is misleading and inaccurate.
The Guardian erroneously refers to Israel’s security barrier as “electrified” rather than the non-lethal “electronic.”
The Independent misleadingly refers to Israel’s security barrier as a “430 mile-long brick wall.”
The latest print edition of The Economist examines Israeli reactions to the Islamist election victory
The UK’s Sunday Times featured a dramatic sounding story “Morpurgo sees child shot in Gaza border wasteland”. Did a children’s author really witness the IDF targeting a child?
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