Posts Tagged: Media Bias Israel
Removing Facts, Inserting Lies: Vice News Aired Palestinian Propaganda Masquerading as Documentary
During the Israel-Hamas conflict, Vice News released Inside the Battle for Jerusalem, a documentary that purportedly portrays the events in eastern Jerusalem over the previous...
More False Narratives Promoted About Israel in the Media
The Washington Post can’t seem to find the true culprit for the lack of peace between Israelis and Palestinians. It’s not Hamas, the US-designated terrorist group that...
‘Balanced’ Coverage of Judea and Samaria? Hardly.
Between mid-May and the end of June, the BBC devoted considerable efforts to the preemptive framing of an event it managed to convince audiences --...
North Jersey Paper Aims at Israel — and Misses
“Get your facts first,” Mark Twain once intoned, “and then you can distort them as you please.” Yet, when it comes to the Israel-Islamist conflict,...
How Can We Help Foreign Journalists Understand Israel?
Israel’s traditional approach to the problem of slanted journalism -- angry letters, op-eds, and comments -- is failing. Despite the valiant and intelligent efforts of...
We’re Expanding Our Media Watchdog Website to Keep Leading UK Newspapers Accountable
In 2009, a small group of dedicated activists concerned about inaccurate and inflammatory coverage of Israel, and tolerance towards antisemitism, in the British media had...
What Do Critics Think Palestinian Leaders Should Do to Advance Peace?
We previously noted that an Independent editorial (paywall) on Trump’s new peace plan ("Peace talks are the only way to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,"...
Who Was Really Killed in Israel’s Response to Palestinian Rocket Attacks?
In an article last Tuesday, the first day of massive Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket attacks against Israeli communities and Israel’s surgical air strikes against targets...
BBC ‘Homemade’ Palestinian Weapons Return to News Reporting
Back in November 2012, a BBC TV presenter told viewers that Hamas was "only" firing “home-made contraptions” at Israeli civilians. We wrote about that here:...
Superficial Media Reporting on the Tlaib and Omar Story
On August 15, the BBC News website published a report headlined “Israel bars Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting” on its "Middle East" page....
An LA Times Op-Ed Sweetens the Destruction of Israel
The concepts of equal rights and justice are embedded in the American psyche. One US academic of Palestinian descent, George Bisharat, is well aware of...
Major UK Paper Falsely Claims That Israeli Law Codifies Racism
A recent, official Guardian editorial ("The Guardian view on the Israeli elections: Netanyahu debases his office -- again") included the following accusation: Israel is not a...
It’s Time for the Media to Adopt the IHRA Antisemitism Definition
A working definition of antisemitism is gaining traction. Drawn up by the Berlin-based International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), this definition has been adopted and endorsed...
The BBC Fails to Address Airbnb’s Anti-Israel Hypocrisy
Despite having already published a report on exactly the same story late the previous evening, on the morning of November 20 the BBC News website...
