BBC Sport wakes up to Malaysia sports discrimination story
BBC Sport’s report on discrimination against Israeli athletes includes portrayal of the discriminating country as ‘progressive’.
Nazi analogy
Guardian appears to reject IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
Contrary to the views of the Guardian Readers’ Editor, the ideological similarity between tropes concluding that “Zionists are our misfortune” and tropes concluding “Jews are our misfortune” is simply impossible to deny.
How BBC News framed the Argentina-Israel football match story
A truncated quote and serious omissions are used to frame the ‘reason’ for cancellation of a football friendly.
Hamas agitprop requires BBC journalists to brush up on UN resolution
Gaza factions are planning a stunt aimed at the international media.
BBC R4 ‘Sunday’ adds more confusion to Jerusalem church story
Once again BBC audiences get an account of the Jerusalem churches dispute story riddled with inaccuracy.
BBC again amplifies church leaders’ PR hyperbole
A story about land leases and council tax becomes an ‘attack on Christians in the Holy Land’ on the BBC News website.
Economist falsely suggests Israeli historian compared African detention centers to “concentration camps”.
We contacted Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer by email, to ask him if, as The Economist claimed, he’s used the term “modern concentration camps”, to characterize the detention of African migrants. Bauer promptly replied to our email and flatly denied ever using any version of the term.
This Irish Times journalist didn’t respond very well to our criticism
The Irish Times journalist could have responded civilly to our tweet, but instead chose snark, a complete non-sequitur designed to divert from the topic at hand, representing another example of how journalists who demand accountability from politicians and government institutions when gathering information for their reports often fail to hold themselves to the same standards when questioned by news consumers – and watchdog groups like ours.
How the Guardian’s decision to publish extremist Tony Greenstein normalises antisemitism
The Guardian decision to publish Greenstein’s complimentary reference to Kaufman’s grotesque Nazi accusation may not itself be an act of antisemitism, but certainly represents another example of editorial decisions which have the effect of normalising such expressions of anti-Jewish racism.
BBC sidelines accuracy in rush to promote another ‘racist Israel’ story
On August 31st the BBC News website chose to publish on its Middle East page an article about a wholly domestic Israeli story. Misleadingly…