Posts Tagged: HonestReporting
Wire Services Play Major Role in Anti-Israel Coverage
As the media landscape adjusts to financial realities and more news outlets make cuts, the role of wire services has increased. While the New York Times, Washington Post...
Media Watchdog Calls Out Reuters for False Reporting on West Bank Water Shortage Story
A major international news agency falsely blamed Israel for water supply issues in a Bethlehem-area Palestinian village in an article published earlier this week, a...
Double Standards for Aleppo and Gaza
Make no mistake, the carnage taking place in Aleppo right now is a disgrace to the international community. The Syrian government and Russian-backed forces are reportedly using chemical weapons,...
Watchdog: Pressure on Canadian Paper Leading to Amendment of Headline About Slaughter of 13-Year-Old Kiryat Arba Girl Serves as Warning Against Double Standards in Israel Coverage
The pressure on a major Canadian newspaper to amend the headline of its story about last week's slaughter of a 13-year-old Israeli girl serves as a warning against the application...
Media Watchdog Exposes Israel-Hitler Comparison in Prominent South African Newspaper Op-Ed
A recent opinion piece featured in South Africa’s The Mail and Guardian accused Israel of carrying out crimes similar to those of Nazi leader Adolf...
Media Watchdogs Blast ‘Salon’ for ‘Gross Misrepresentation’ of State Department Report on Israel
Two media-monitoring organizations expressed outrage against the current affairs website Salon on Wednesday for its description of the State Department’s latest report on Israel’s human...
Media Watchdog Demands Accountability From CBS Over ‘Misleading’ Headline on Terrorist Attack, Even After It Was Changed
A watchdog organization called on the public on Thursday to join a campaign to “demand accountability" from a major media outlet in relation to its Israel reportage. HonestReporting circulated an “Action...
Media Watchdog: ‘Palestinian Terrorism No Longer Deemed Newsworthy?’
Major international news outlets either had slanted coverage of or virtually ignored the murder of an Israeli woman on Sunday, a media-monitoring group said on Monday. HonestReporting, a watchdog group whose...
Fareed Zakaria, Daily Mail, Haaretz Among Media Watchdog’s ‘Dishonest Reporting’ Award-Winners
As 2015 draws to a close, a media-monitoring organization highlighted eight of what it deemed the most egregious violations of professional standards concerning reporting about...
The BDS Movement Is Actually Hurting Palestinians
As SodaStream, one of the top targets for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, shuts its West Bank factory and moves over the Green Line...
Fight BDS by Buying Israeli Products, Pressing Back on Boycotts
The key to defeating BDS may come down to making the price of boycotts too high for businesses and cultural centers to bear -- forcing them...
The Islamic State May Soon Be a Direct Threat to Israel
In only four months, the Islamic State (IS) has captured territory larger than the country of Britain, a march unprecedented in modern history, according to...
Believe the Hype: Zionism is Losing the Battle of Ideas on College Campuses
Haaretz reporter Ari Shavit paid a visit to two dozen U.S. college campuses and came back with a dire warning: the Jewish future is slipping through...
BDS Gains Strength, But Still Faces Challenges on College Campuses
Last month's student election at Stanford University included allegations of anti-Semitism by the Students of Color Coalition against Molly Horwitz - who identifies as Jewish and...
