Posts Tagged: Israel Media Bias
Israeli Government Cultivates Allies at First Christian Media Summit
JNS.org - Recognizing that it's easier to communicate with journalists who are prone to be supporters of Israel than those with a perceived anti-Israel bias, the Israeli government recently offered Christian media professionals...
Does The Washington Post Even Read The Washington Post?
An old adage, often attributed to Mark Twain, states that the “truth is stranger than fiction -- because we don’t meet it as often.” But readers...
Story on Gaza Student ‘Denied’ Education Visa Is Riddled With Distortions
A September 27th article in the Independent by Bethan McKernan claims that a 28-year-old Palestinian student named Mohammed Awad was due to begin a masters program at the University of London -- but may...
Haaretz’s Textbook Case of Media Bias
Haaretz reports: Over 50 Christian and Muslim sites have been vandalized in Israel and the West Bank since 2009, but only nine indictments have been filed and...
Gaza Electricity Crisis Highlights BBC’s Anti-Israel Bias
When some residents of the Gaza Strip took to the streets last winter to protest their inadequate electricity supply, the BBC website produced two written reports on...
Cheering for Illegal Settlers — as Long as They’re Not Jews
JNS.org - Some on the Jewish left, along with the United Nations and the international news media, have been telling us for years that illegal settlers...
UK Paper Corrects Story on 2006 Gaza Beach Incident After Watchdog Intervention
Last month, we posted about an Independent article focusing on the aftermath of the 2006 Gaza beach incident, in which eight Palestinian civilians were killed by an explosion under highly disputed circumstances. The Indy...
UK Paper Describes Israeli Accusations About Iran’s Military Expansion as ‘Bellicose Rhetoric’
The word “bellicose” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars." Here is the opening paragraph of a Guardian article by Peter Beaumont ("Netanyahu accuses Iran of building missile...
USA Today’s Orwellian Report on Anti-Jewish Violence
In his dystopian novel 1984, the British author George Orwell famously wrote: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” In a similar vein, a...
UK Columnist Compares White Supremacism to ‘Right-Wing’ Zionism
Guardian columnist Giles Fraser has compared white supremacism to "right-wing" Zionism. Fraser, in his August 17 column, faulted Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu for his three-day delay in condemning the antisemitism in Charlottesville. Fraser contextualized his claim by citing a recent interview on Israeli TV...
Filling in the Blanks in BBC Reports on Hamas, Qatar and Iran
While early BBC News website coverage of the rift between Qatar and several other Arab states did clarify that one of Saudi Arabia’s demands was...
Can the Washington Post Google Anti-Jewish Incitement?
A July 27, 2017, Washington Post report minimized both Palestinian anti-Jewish violence, as well as the Jewish people's connection to their ancestral homeland of Israel. The dispatch, filed by Jerusalem bureau...
UK Journalist Tweets Deceit About Israeli Reaction to Saeb Erekat’s Illness
The consistent failure of British news outlets to inform their readers about the drumbeat of Palestinian incitement -- and Palestinian support for violence -- is one of the most vexing elements...
BBC Promotes Equivalence Between Violent Rioters and Terror Victims
Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s "Today" program last week heard two reports on consecutive days relating to Palestinian rioting that was ostensibly in reaction to security...
