The Independent’s reports on Al Quds Day downplay Iran’s genocidal opposition to Israel while labeling its president a “moderate.”
Conn Mac Gabhann visited Israel purportedly to “better understand the political situation of the region.” Unfortunately though, it doesn’t seem that he gained much understanding at all.
The Sunday Times features tourism in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc but fails to add some much-needed context.
These parody headlines would be funny if they didn’t hit so close to home: they are taken directly from real headlines about terror attacks in Israel.
As the world mourns with Manchester, we remember that the world rarely mourns with Israel: instead, headlines mourn the death of Israel’s attackers and calls their violence, “alleged,” while diligently avoiding the word, “terrorism.”
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 Guardian’s Peter Beaumont erroneously refers to the Western Wall, rather than the Temple Mount, as Judaism’s holiest site, not once but three times.
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.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown whitewashes Palestinian terrorism against civilians, and delegitimizes Israeli defense and the Haganah, which was founded to protect Jews against attacks and later became the IDF.
Has previously anti-Israel medical journal The Lancet been cured of its terminal illness?
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti is caught sneaking candy and cookies, breaking his own hunger strike. But which media chose not to show the video evidence?
HonestReporting prompts The Guardian to correct multiple references falsely implying that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital.
Is The Guardian’s photo choice a deliberate attempt to falsely imply that Arabic is absent from Israeli signs?
The Independent considers Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud to be a “far-right” party.
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.
A preview of HonestReporting’s Bias by the Numbers series takes a snapshot of The Independent’s headlines during March 2017.
Comedian Eddie Izzard performs in Tel Aviv, which the Daily Mail’s Mail Online refers to as the Israeli capital while also calling Jerusalem a “West Bank town.”
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