Sky News Arabia report on Druze elections in Golan is riddled with distortions and falsehoods

A Sky Arabic report on municipal elections in the Golan Heights promotes six falsehoods.

This is a cross-post from UK Media Watch

Bukata, Golan Heights

On November 1st Sky News Arabia – a joint venture between the UK-based Sky News and Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation – published a report about local elections in the Golan Heights that is riddled with errors and distortions.

The article focuses on Israeli municipal elections held on October 30th in the four Druze towns in the Golan Heights and the resulting protests and clashes they sparked. Below is a full translation of the original Arabic article, with the errors and distortions underlined. (Translation by CAMERA Arabic.)

Read about that report’s six falsehoods in the rest of this post here.

 

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