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Terminology Matters!
The Daily Mail and Daily Express both use misleading terminology in a conflict where use of language matters.
Simon Plosker
December 12, 2017
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The Daily Mail and Daily Express both use misleading terminology in a conflict where use of language matters.
As President Donald Trump declares US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, some media made a muck up of their facts.
A mixture of ignorance and poor editing creates an historical mess of errors in a Daily Mail story.
The US doesn’t recognize a Palestinian state. HonestReporting gets the correction after The Independent erroneously refers to the PLO’s representative to the US as “Ambassador.”
The Times of London erroneously implies that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital rather than Jerusalem. HonestReporting gets the correction.
Israeli Arab singer Ruba Shamshoum was born and raised in the Israeli city of Nazareth. So why does the Irish Times say that she is from “Palestine?”
In sinister style, The Times of London describes former IDF soldier Hen Mazzig as an “agent” when Jewish students were attacked by anti-Israel protesters.
Who were the “native people” who lived in Judea during the time of the Romans and why is it so hard for the BBC to acknowledge it was the Jews?
The Guardian crudely refers to the “Israeli regime.” HonestReporting gets the correction.
The UK doesn’t recognize a Palestinian state. The Palestinians have a diplomatic mission, not an embassy. So why do media outlets refer to the Palestinian “ambassador?”
The Guardian’s headline falsely implies that UK politician Priti Patel wanted to send British aid money to the Israeli army.
Writing in the Daily Mail, historian Dominic Sandbrook makes sweeping and inaccurate generalizations, historical statements lacking in context, and even falls for the very propaganda he claims to oppose.
The Independent’s Bethan McKernan relies on false terrorist propaganda to incorrectly claim an air strike on a terror tunnel in Gaza.
The Daily Telegraph removes a reference to the “current government in Tel Aviv” following a complaint from HonestReporting.
If The Independent is going to opine about the alleged evils of the Balfour Declaration, the least it can do is get the facts right. HonestReporting gets a correction.
Media outlets, including the BBC, Washington Post and The Guardian all fail to mention that the IDF’s destruction of a terror tunnel from Gaza took place on the Israeli side of the border.
The Daily Mail’s Mail Online erroneously blames the Israeli police rather than Facebook for a bizarre Arabic mistranslation that led to the wrongful arrest of a Palestinian.
In a blatant example of imbalanced reporting, the BBC includes a video interview with a prominent pro-BDS activist in a story yet fails to include a counterpoint.
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