LA Times: Giving a Voice to Hamas
The publication of Hamas op-eds in both the New York Times and Washington Post provoked an outcry. Not wishing to be outdone by its illustrious rivals, the LA Times gives free propaganda to Hamas in a...
View ArticleThe Stench Spreads: Johann Hari’s Stinking Op-Ed
The following communique was released by HonestReporting UK earlier this week in response to an appalling op-ed by Johann Hari published in The Independent. Since then, Hari’s piece has spread through...
View ArticleThe BBC’s Birthday Present to Israel
The events leading up to the creation of the modern-day State of Israel exactly 60 years ago have been examined and re-examined by qualified historians. So why was Jeremy Bowen given the...
View ArticleRevising History: NY Times Op-Ed Promotes Pappe
The past few weeks have witnessed a deluge of articles, op-eds and features surrounding the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence. Many of these have focused not on Israel itself but on the...
View ArticleBMJ’s Bad Medicine
Following the British Medical Journal’s attack on HonestReporting, many people, including Melanie Phillips ask: “what have the Arab/Israel impasse and Israel’s military strategy towards the...
View ArticleChannel 4 “Cleanses” Context From Gaza Story
In a five minute report for the UK’s Channel 4 News, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller focuses on a Palestinian child with a brain tumor as a hook on which to hang Gazan suffering on...
View ArticleSalon’s Bogus Ethnic Cleansing Claim
This week’s anniversary of the 1947 UN Partition Plan, which led to the creation of Israel as an independent state in 1948, is a good opportunity to look at a key point in the history of Palestinian...
View ArticleThe Independent Claims Survey Reveals Israelis Support “Ethnic Cleansing”
UPDATE Following correspondence, we have agreed to publish a response from a spokesperson at The Independent concerning the HonestReporting critique below: Our article reported accurately on the...
View ArticleHR Prompts The Independent to Remove Paragraph Questioning Jewish History
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu’s recent video where he accuses the Palestinians of advocating the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the disputed territories has apparently turned into a political...
View ArticleNPR Covers Up the Ethnic Cleansing of Jews
In its article, “7 Things To Know About Israeli Settlements,” National Public Radio manages to demonstrate just how little its writers know about settlements, Israel and how to practice journalism. Our...
View ArticleNewsweek Links Israel to Myanmar Ethnic Cleansing
It’s a perfectly legitimate question to ask why representatives of the Myanmar military were spotted at an Israeli weapons and security conference in Israel. Israelis themselves have been asking...
View Article‘Courageous’ Palestinian Coyotes: Daily Beast Encourages Human Trafficking...
On September 14, The Daily Beast published a piece, titled The Courageous Men Who Smuggle Palestinians into Israel, that condones criminal activity and ignores the Jewish state’s precarious security...
View ArticleThe Ideological Similarities Media Bury: Palestinian Authority PM, Hamas...
Barely 72 hours before this week’s widely-reported “peace meeting” between Mahmoud Abbas and two Israeli ministers, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh hinted at destroying Israel....
View ArticleAcademia’s Disturbing Distortion of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Academics are expected to treat controversial issues with reasoned analysis – objective evaluation of opposing sides. Commentary following the recent 11-day war between Israel and Hamas revealed a...
View ArticleReporting for Reuters: Henriette Chacar, Who Stated Israel Practices...
Henriette Chacar is, according to her social media accounts (see here and here), the deputy editor of +972 Magazine, which has produced articles accusing Israel of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing” and...
View ArticleBeyond Biased Headlines: Disproving the Israel ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Charge
Israeli police earlier this month obeyed the law by carrying out the court-ordered eviction of the Salihiya family in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood. Israeli courts had...
View ArticleWall Street Journal Contributor Has History of Bias Against Israel
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has relied on several local journalists to serve as contributors to its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. One of these contributors is Fatima AbdulKarim, a Palestinian...
View ArticleMedia Can’t Contain Excitement as ‘Nakba Day’ Brings New Opportunity for...
Another 15th of May, and another Nakba Day has come and gone. Naturally, this year, the media had a field day. How could they not? The headlines proclaiming a “second Nakba” as Israel continues its war...
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