Posts Tagged: Israel Media Bias
‘Vogue’ Can’t Glamorize Palestinian Terror
When talking about photo bias, we’re usually dealing with breaking news images that are lacking context, misleadingly framed, cynically staged, spuriously cropped, carelessly recycled, or dubiously photoshopped. Sometimes, editors make poor decisions on how...
Once Again, the Media Whitewashes Antisemitism Around the World
The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor has previously warned about a “a rising tide of anti-Semitism.” Yet when the journalist sat down to interview one of the world’s leading antisemites, Malaysian...
BBC Tries to Erase Hamas’ Role in ‘Great Return March’ Violence
On August 28, a filmed report titled “Bullet shatters Palestinian cyclist’s Asian Games dream” was posted on the BBC News website’s "Middle East" page. According...
‘Guardian’ Op-Ed Defends View That Israel Has No Right to Exist
The headline of a Guardian op-ed by Ahmad Samih Khalidi ("Siding with the Palestinian struggle is not antisemitic") is of course a straw man, as nobody...
The Guardian Promotes Hamas Claim That Israel Bombed Gaza ‘Cultural Center’
The Guardian’s coverage of the 2014 summer Gaza war was defined by a failure to challenge Hamas claims and an obfuscation of evidence demonstrating that the...
Foreign Policy Magazine Does PR Work for UNRWA
JNS.org - Foreign Policy magazine bills itself as a “global magazine of news and ideas,” but recently, the bimonthly periodical appears to have branched out into...
In Gaza, ‘The New York Times’ Obscures Cause and Effect
JNS.org - Following a well-worn pattern, The New York Times is again downplaying Palestinian belligerence, this time obscuring the fact that intensive Palestinian rocket attacks against southern Israel...
A Night of Rockets and Headline Fails
Residents of southern Israel spent Wednesday night in bomb shelters as Palestinians fired a heavy barrage of rockets and mortars (nearly 200, according to the most...
Washington Post Op-Ed Completely Distorts the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
No matter how often one reads about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and thinks that one had heard it all, someone comes along and shocks us with...
UK Paper Promotes Noam Chomsky’s Charge on ‘Israeli Intervention in US Elections’
The Independent legitimized the warped political views of linguist Noam Chomsky this week in a column by their US editor Andrew Buncombe. The article, titled “Israeli intervention...
The New York Times’ Myths About Israel as a Jewish State
In any debate, opinions must be based on factual reality, not myths. As a professional obligation, The New York Times must pay attention when it...
Media Bias Against Israel — Where to Begin?
The media’s treatment of Israel has been among the Jewish state's most vexing challenges. Most major media organizations have reporters based in Israel, an open...
UK Media Backgrounder on ‘Gaza-Israel Conflict’ Is Riddled with Distortions
The Independent’s new Mideast correspondent Bel Trew penned a backgrounder on the "Gaza-Israel conflict" that’s full of distortions. Below are some highlights from the July 27 article. Trew asks: “Why has there been...
The New Yorker Puts Its Anti-Israel Bias on Display
“We checked nonfiction. We checked fiction. We checked poems. We checked cartoons. We checked cartoon captions,” asserted Richard Sacks, describing his work in The New...
