Yarden Frankl discusses media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and “Even-Handism” on the Mottle Wolfe Show.
The media have an obligation to not only report what people are saying, but what is really happening on the ground. If one side is saying things that have no basis in fact, the media needs to expose this, not simply say “it depends who you ask,” or “on the other hand…..”
Today’s Top Stories 1. Claiming that the intifada is really a series of Israeli attacks
“The Dueling Narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” is an attempt to provide journalistic “balance” on a story where none exists.
It is part of a larger wave of biased reporting that sees “The Return of Casualty Figures as a Moral Barometer.” In other words, the simple belief that the side with the greater number of casualties is necessarily the side with the greater moral claim.
Nathan Thrall’s column in the New York Times is no more than propaganda.
Jerusalem and all of Israel face a wave of deadly terrorist attacks. Yet many in the media publish misleading headlines that highlight Israel’s reaction to terror, not the attacks.
While the desire to kill as many Jews as possible is still there, years of Israeli intelligence and military operations have removed the Palestinians’ ability to plan sophisticated deadly attacks from safe areas. They no longer have the ability to hold all of Israeli society hostage.
Our latest Watchdog of the Week is Elliot Chodoff who asks why a Foreign Policy magazine mailing fails to mention that it is Palestinians stabbing Israelis.
What’s Next: Israeli Settler Blunts Palestinian Teen’s Knife?
In an interview full of leading questions, the BBC’s Evan Davis asks Israeli politician Tzipi Livni whether she would describe her parents as terrorists.
Despite the headline in the New York Times, Khaled Koutineh, a 37 year old Palestinian, is not suspected of targeting an empty, Jerusalem bus stop
The Guardian erroneously refers to Israel’s security barrier as “electrified” rather than the non-lethal “electronic.”
For reasonable people, the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and kosher supermarket in Paris
By giving a platform to someone with downright ridiculous views, CNN (and other media who have in the past published his rantings) is guilty of lending journalistic legitimacy where none should exist.
The jihad’s brainwashing machines are not alone; they are backed by the lies against Israel in the media and in the academia.
The Economist in mentioning Palestinian terror attacks treats the perpetrators as victims of the very acts that they themselves carried out.
The International Business Times labels Rabbi Yehuda Glick a “militant.” It’s the same word that is used to describe the terrorist who shot him.
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