The Daily Mail’s Mail Online publishes a story accusing Israeli forces of demolishing graves in a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. Except it never happened.
Following a complaint from HonestReporting, the Associated Press issues a correction after erroneously referring to the Western Wall rather than the Temple Mount as Judaism’s holiest site.
Foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini never said the EU recognizes Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital. Nor does the rest of the international community. HR gets The Independent to correct the error.
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.
An opinion piece by Graham Richardson in The Australian falsely claims that Israeli tanks are “shelling targets in the West Bank and Gaza.”
UPDATE Following HonestReporting’s complaint, the History Channel has corrected the first part of its error,
As President Donald Trump declares US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, some media made a muck up of their facts.
HonestReporting achieved 20 significant corrections in November 2017, including from Google, the Oxford English Dictionary, CNN and the BBC.
A mixture of ignorance and poor editing creates an historical mess of errors in a Daily Mail story.
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.”
CNN’s feature on global sexual harassment includes a map of the Middle East that marks Israel as an Arab state.
The Times of London erroneously implies that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital rather than Jerusalem. HonestReporting gets the correction.
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.
Who were the “native people” who lived in Judea during the time of the Romans and why is it so hard for the BBC to acknowledge it was the Jews?
According to the International Business Times, the resignation of British politician Priti Patel was “exercising minds in Tel Aviv.” HonestReporting gets the correction.
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