Akiva Van Koningsveld
ARTICLES BY: Akiva Van Koningsveld
Media Breathe New Life Into Ken Roth’s Twisted Anti-Israel Conspiracies
Human Rights Watch (HRW), more than any other self-proclaimed human rights group, has been instrumental in mainstreaming radical anti-Israel talking points for decades. Under the...
Spy Cows Are the Latest Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theory
Many anti-Israel smears are just too ridiculous to be taken seriously. Yet time and time again, media outlets fail to separate fact from fiction, even...
UK Education Union Magazine: ‘Israelis Release Wild Boars To Scare Palestinian Children’
Public opinion polls have long indicated that teachers are among the most trusted professionals in the United Kingdom, with 81 percent of Brits saying they trust educators...
The New York Times’ Rush to Whitewash Palestinian Terror
Only days after HonestReporting dissected the Palestinian casualty statistics for 2022, The New York Times made yet another highly dubious attempt at charging Israel with killing...
2022 the Deadliest Year for Palestinians? What the Media Didn’t Tell You
According to the United Nations, 2022 has been the deadliest year in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem in almost two decades, with more than...
Shireen Abu Akleh Death ‘Witness’ Turns Out to Be Islamic Jihad Terrorist
A key “civilian” eyewitness in the formal complaint against Israel filed by Al Jazeera at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the death of Shireen...
Time Magazine Annexes the West Bank
Why does it seem that journalists can only view Israel through the prism of the Arab-Israeli conflict? Case in point: In an otherwise well-written story about...
Does the Moral High Ground Belong to the Side That Loses More People?
As Israel struggles to contain the deadliest surge in Palestinian terrorism since 2008, the media is seemingly resorting to the dubious practice of presenting casualty numbers...
See No Evil: Are Media Letting Neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League off the Hook?
On November 17, 2022, in remarks that went largely unreported outside of Jewish and Israeli media, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the prevalence of...
Terror Bombings in Jerusalem: Media Biases and Distortions
Within seconds, residents of Jerusalem were thrown back to the dark days of the Second Intifada -- the wave of Palestinian suicide attacks that killed more than...
CNN Producer Tweeted ‘#TeamHitler,’ Called Hamas Terrorists ‘Freedom Fighters’
Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a California-educated native of Kenya, has done work for CNN since 2015, reporting on critical events in Africa, including then-President Barack Obama’s visit...
Hebron Hatchet Job: Three Ways the Media Misreported Israel’s Latest Terror Atrocity
On Saturday night, a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on innocent Jewish families exiting an Arab store on the outskirts of Hebron, killing an Israeli man and...
CNN Takes Down ‘Palestine’ Reference Following Watchdog Action
While Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas might call himself the president of “Palestine,” most mainstream media outlets have rightfully refrained from recognizing Ramallah’s claim of independence....
Palestinian Journalists Jump to Defend Hitler-Loving Colleagues
After the Thomson Reuters Foundation last week moved to strip West Bank-based journalist Shatha Hammad of her Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, the Palestinian...
