With the world watching Syria, Egypt, and Iran so closely in 2013, Israel was relatively less of a lightning rod for the international media.
Still, Israeli-Palestinian negotiators were nudged back to the peace table, and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out against the shortcomings of Iranian nuclear diplomacy. US-Israel relations were strained by differences on both issues. Everything else was either just a detail, or 
simply paled in comparison to those bigger issues.
We thank our readers for sharing their thoughts on the year that was. Here are the 2013 Dishonest Reporting runners-up.
We’ll announce who our readers selected for the ignoble grand winner later this week, so stay tuned.
[sc:midsignup ]And now, without further ado . . .
The 2013 Dishonest Reporting Awards
Dumbest Tweet: Borzou Daragahi- Most Skewed Moral Compass: Amira Hass
- Most Brainless Headline (USA): CNN
- Most Brainless Headline (UK): The Guardian
- Poison Pen: German Cartoonists
- Most Bullheaded Broadcasting Corp.: BBC
- Favorite Identity Crisis: Newseum
- Most Creative Self-Marketing: Fadi Arouri
- Most Bitter Medicine: The Lancet
Dumbest Tweet: Borzou Daragahi
Only fringe conspiracy theorists would take this Financial Times reporter’s tweet seriously. In February, Bulgarian investigators concluded that Hezbollah was responsible for a 2012 suicide bombing which killed five Israelis, their Bulgarian driver, and injured dozens more in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas. The FT’s Borzou Daragahi suggested on Twitter that Israel paid Bulgaria to blame Hezbollah.
Finding himself in hot water, Daragahi tweeted an apology a few hours later. But one question lingers: What does it say about the state of the media when a journalist tweets such mindless stupidity?
Most Skewed Moral Compass: Amira Hass
Haaretz columnist Amira Hass disgusted HonestReporting readers when she defended Palestinian rock throwing. She later followed up with more moral ambiguity justifying a mega terror tunnel the IDF discovered under the Israel-Gaza border.
Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule . . . Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
Discussing the furor, Hass insisted to 972 Mag:
Stone throwing is a message, and the Israelis don’t listen to it.
Hospitalized Israeli children like Avigail Ben Zion and Adele Biton are too young to understand Hass’s so-called “metaphors of resistance,” but left-wing activist Danny Seidemann sure got the message.
Most Brainless Headline (USA): CNN
Wouldn’t the CNN brass be more than irked if rockets were fired at them?
Most Brainless Headline (UK): The Guardian
This commentary in The Guardian‘s print edition was just as snooty and arrogant as the headline.
The author, Giles Fraser, wrote:
But the flip side of all this prodigy-like technological mastery is a lack of empathy, an inability to meet the gaze or to enter into the emotional reality of its neighbours. In this Rain Man caricature, Israel lives in an existential bubble, cut off (by a wall, both mental and literal) from its surroundings.
To which one reader, Smellthecoffee2, aptly commented:
Awards for German cartoonists, the BBC, a very unethical Palestinian photojournalist, and more.
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21 Comments
What happened to factual, truthful journalism ??? Now we get self-opinonated , biased ,prejudiced & fabricated one-sided news from these so called “journalist”. Who are “honest” keeping the truth locked away. How perverted has journalism become these days.
Amira Hass should be arrested for treason and encouraging murder. She is pure evil!
Thank You, i hope the Prize will be issued CASH 😛
Well done man
Very proud of you Fadi Arouri!
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On the NY Times: the anti-Jewish position of the NY Times is old. During World War II, when the Holocaust was raging, the NY Times put its reports on inside pages.
I think the crap still coming out of Germany that resembles what Goebbels churned out needs to be highlighted. Not much worse than making a human being look like a sub-human monster.
HonestReporting thank you for all the great work you do in exposing the Israel haters out there.
Frimet Roth who lost her daughter in the Sbarros massacre in 2001.
Read what she wrote about Gideon Levy and Amira Hamas
Frimet hits it right on the head about their hypocrisy.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=1339
The Enemies’ Children
Frimet Roth
November 28, 2006
Gideon Levy, who writes for Israel`s pre-eminent daily, Haaretz, fancies himself a champion of the weak and vulnerable. The day after my child`s cold-blooded murder by a Hamas bomber, Levy wrote the following in his weekly piece detailing Palestinian suffering:
“These children, every child in the world should have protection as though he were a VIP. Every child in the world is a VIP”
Levy did not mention the seven Jewish children whose graves were dug that day because he did not mean those children. He never does.
Levy`s colleague, Amira Hass, the only Israeli journalist who lives in a Palestinian town, Ramallah, was equally indifferent to my child`s murder. The first piece she published in Haaretz after the Sbarro massacre made no mention of the fifteen victims. Instead, it was an emotive tirade about the Palestinian right of return, reminding her readers of two major Jewish settlements close to Jerusalem that she fears “won`t be evacuated”: the city of Maaleh Adumim and the Jerusalem satellite community of Givat Ze`ev.
Murdered Jewish children do not move Hass either.
Amira Hass is a well known supporter of Palestinian terrorism.
After Hamas mass murderer Yassin was killed in 2004, Amira was horrified that Israel would kill this Islamo fascist who ordered thousands of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
Hass says this in the article.. The targeted assassination will bring us closer to a respite and to Palestinian surrender.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/another-red-line-is-crossed-1.117726
Another red line is crossed
Amira Hass
March 24, 2004
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Amira would prefer Palestinian Nazis continue to slaughter Israeli civilians with no response from Israel.
I just hope Yassin did not die instantly. I hope he felt the pain of his limbs being torn off, just as the hundreds of Jews who had there limbs torn off by homicide bombers.
The PR shots of Yassin in his wheelchair will be remembered by those that don’t see the crippled bodies of all those that he ordered to be bombed by Hamas.
Yassin was a mass murderer of the same ilk as Saddam Hussein. Saddam never killed a Kurd he just inspired others to do his dirty work.
Just to inform Amira terrorism went down 90% since this murderer Yassin was killed.
Amira Hass was one of the promoters of the Jenin Massacre Hoax in 2002.
Even after it became known how the Palestinians made up the whole massacre, Amira refused to retract her Jenin massacre claims.
Amira was one of the liars who promoted the Jenin massacre hoax in 2002 and refused to retract her lies.
Let me put exactly what Amira said
http://www.zcommunications.org/what-kind-of-war-is-this-by-amira-hass
‘What kind of war is this?’
AMIRA HASS
Haaretz, April 2002
It is still impossible to know how many people are buried under the ruins in the Jenin refugee camp, where the smell of decomposing bodies mingles with the stench of garbage and the scent of geraniums and mint.
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My comments.
Lies Lies Lies and more Lies by Amira.
There was no decomposing bodies. This was all Pallywood lies.
Amira again caught lying as she did when she was sued for her lies in Hebron.
Amira Hass and Gideon Levy wont even criticize Palestinians when Israelis are lynched by them.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10038#.U3tLhPldWZk
Haaretz has been diligently undermining Israel’s claim to the moral high ground by placing victims of terrorism on the same plain as their barbaric perpetrators. Nahum Barnea, no rightist, of Yediot Aharonot wrote in November of 2000 that there are Israeli reporters who do not pass the “lynching test”. These are journalists who could not bring themselves to criticize the Palestinians even when two Israelis were savagely murdered by a Palestinian pogrom in Ramallah. Which journalists? Gideon Levy, Amira Hass, and Akiva Eldar of Ha’aretz
The Palestinians know Amira Hass, Gideon Levy etc will never criticize Palestinian fascism.
Palestinians are now attacking Arabs who look like Jews.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/12/muslim-family-attacked-in-jerusalem.html#.U3tPM_ldWZk
Muslim family attacked in Jerusalem – because attackers thought they were Jewish
December 01, 2013
From YNet
Amira Hass who’s been a proven liar.
Ha’aretz was sued after Hass wrote that Jewish residents of Hebron kicked, spat on, and danced atop the body of a dead Palestinian terrorist, just shot and killed by soldiers after he threw a grenade at them. There was a video to show Hass lied.
As MK Ayelet Shaked so succinctly said about radicals like Amira Hamas:
I’m all for a one way deal – a handover of all our leftist loons in exchange for peace.. in exchange for anything, actually.
Amira Hass should change her name to Amira Hamas.
That would fit her better.
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