March, 2013

March 28, 2013

BBC's Davies crafts a narrative by omission

Among the reams of BBC coverage of the recent visit by Barack Obama to Israel was this article writt...

March 28, 2013

11 years ago: How the Guardian reported 2002 Netanya Passover Massacre

The attack On March 27, 2002, a Hamas terrorist named Abdel-Basset Odeh broke into a Passover Seder ...

March 27, 2013

Yet another major BBC accuracy fail in reporting 2010 flotilla

The BBC Editorial Guidelines on accuracy state: “The BBC must not knowingly and materially mis...

March 27, 2013

Glenn Greenwald airbrushes the bigotry and extremism of Noam Chomsky

Glenn Greenwald’s latest post includes a spirited defense of Noam Chomsky, one of his intellec...

March 27, 2013

Selective BBC reporting on cross-border incidents in the Golan

As previously noted here not long ago, the BBC’s selective reporting on the subject of the gro...

March 26, 2013

Why wasn’t this deleted? Passover edition.

Guardian contributor Harry J Enten recently published a personal story at ‘Comment is Free...

March 26, 2013

BBC writer suggests Israelis might eat locusts out of "revenge"

March 21st saw another (quite timely, given the Pessah holiday) BBC report on the subject of the swa...

March 26, 2013

The politics of BBC approved terminology on Israel's security fence

A series of Tweets sent by the BBC Jerusalem Bureau’s Wyre Davies on the last day of the Obama...

March 25, 2013

Imagine a land where even one Jew is one Jew too many

There will be no Passover Seder in Libya tonight.   This is so because, in Libya, there are no long...

March 25, 2013

Happy Pessah!

Wishing all our readers celebrating Pessah a very happy holiday.  חג פסח שמח וכשר...