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HR Prompts The Independent to Correct Election Error
The Independent gets its Israeli elections mixed up. HonestReporting sets it straight.
Simon Plosker
September 10, 2019
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The Independent gets its Israeli elections mixed up. HonestReporting sets it straight.
Why is a local newspaper encouraging donations for a politicized anti-Israel event?
Why does the BBC place a graphic video image of a disfigured child to illustrate a story of an alleged Israeli airstrike on military targets in Syria?
The Independent corrects the error after falsely implying Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital city.
The BBC interviews propagandist Ahed Tamimi and relies on a terror-affiliated NGO to portray Israel as a militaristic abuser of Palestinian children.
Sarah Helm was exposed for failing to acknowledge the potentially violent background of a Palestinian. The Sunday Times doesn’t feel like addressing it.
Why does the Daily Mail treat Asma Assad as an example to women everywhere while her husband Bashar leads the brutal Syrian regime?
On August 4, HonestReporting critiqued a feature in The Sunday Times by advocacy journalist
Advocacy journalist Sarah Helm has a history of lies and distortions when it comes
Israel has been accused of many things, including genocide, when it comes to the Palestinians. This time, it’s herbicide.
A simple edit to a quote erroneously makes it appear as if Israel attacked Syria using Russian supplied weapons.
The Guardian republishes a baseless smear about Gazan babies dying alone in Israel hospitals despite the story having already been debunked.
The Independent minimizes a blatantly antisemitic tweet from Hollywood actor John Cusack terming it merely “controversial.”
Beitar Jerusalem’s minority of extremist fans are falsely held up by The Independent as a symbol of Israeli soccer and Zionism.
As hundreds of Jews visited the Temple Mount celebrating Jerusalem Day, photo captions describe “fanatic Jews raiding the Al-Aqsa mosque.”
A video from the presumed scene of a Gaza air strike appears to show Palestinian fauxtography in action to present Israel as a child-killer.
Some UK media outlets used the Eurovision Song Contest to give a platform for BDS activists to attack Israel in the buildup to the competition.
Does a cartoon by Steve Bell in The Guardian cross the line into antisemitism? His latest portrays a barbed wire Gaza fence shaped as an Israeli flag .
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