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.
UPDATE The Independent notified HonestReporting by email that the slide show has been taken down
The Independent’s reports on Al Quds Day downplay Iran’s genocidal opposition to Israel while labeling its president a “moderate.”
HonestReporting crunches the numbers to compare the Israel-related media cultures in Britain and the United States.
HonestReporting prompts corrections from The Times of London, The Independent and Daily Mail following inaccurate references to the Western Wall as “Judaism’s holiest site.”
HonestReporting prompts a correction from The Independent after Israel’s security barrier by Bethlehem is described as an “occupation wall.”
The Independent promotes a South African publicity stunt drawing attention to a Palestinian hunger strike and includes an embedded tweet calling for Israel’s destruction.
The Independent’s sub-header draws disproportionate focus on Robert Fisk’s charges that Israel used weapons on Palestinians in Gaza that could cause cancer.
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 Independent considers Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud to be a “far-right” party.
A preview of HonestReporting’s Bias by the Numbers series takes a snapshot of The Independent’s headlines during March 2017.
The Independent includes a graph comparing Israeli and Palestinian casualty figures but fails to include any context whatsoever.
The Independent’s obituary for long-serving British MP Sir Gerald Kaufman ignores his anti-Israel hate, instead claiming Kaufman to be a victim of a smear campaign by “virulent Zionists.”
The so-called Regulation Bill legalizing settlement outposts is controversial and divides Israeli public opinion. The Independent thinks otherwise.
The Independent stoops to some of the worst breaches of journalistic ethics in publishing an anti-Israel, Ben White opinion piece.
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A Reuters report falsely implies that Tel Aviv is Israel’s center of power and government, an error republished by multiple media outlets.
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