Independent

September 10, 2015

Someone told Donald Macintyre that Jewish donors control UK foreign policy…so it MUST be true

Here’s how Donald Macintyre, veteran journalist for The Independent (and the paper’s fo...

August 17, 2015

A question for the Independent’s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown about Carlos Latuff’s Holocaust cartoons.

Posted by Richard Millett The Independent’s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown doesn’t check facts. In...

July 16, 2015

UK Media Watch prompts two corrections at The Independent

A July 3rd article in The Independent, written by Sam Masters, mischaracterized the conclusions of ...

July 13, 2015

Investigating Indy claim that 511 Gazans died ‘after their ambulances were obstructed’

Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah is the Chief of Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at American U...

July 7, 2015

The Independent obfuscates overwhelming Israeli support for Operation Protective Edge

A July 7th article by The Independent’s Ben Lynfield (Gaza, a year on from Operation Protectiv...

June 18, 2015

British media continues to obfuscate Jeremy Corbyn’s sympathy for violent right-wing extremists

We recently commented on a June 15th Guardian report which benignly characterized Jeremy Corbyn MP...

June 8, 2015

Bon Jovi to perform in Israel: #BDSFail #BritishMediaFail

Last year we commented on a story in The Independent written by their Jerusalem correspondent Alist...

May 19, 2015

Robert Fisk misrepresents Stephen Harper’s views on antisemitism (Part 2)

In our previous post, we refuted Robert Fisk’s claim, in his latest column at The Independent,...

May 19, 2015

Robert Fisk misrepresents Stephen Harper’s views on antisemitism (Part 1)

One of the most frequently heard complaints by pro-Palestinian activists (and journalists sympatheti...

March 26, 2015

UK Media Watch prompts correction at The Independent over wild Gaza reconstruction claim

An op-ed by Yawa Hawari published in The Independent on March 17th included quite a few wild claim...