Corrections secured to inaccurate BBC News website maps – part two
Following a complaint, the BBC News website amends six inaccurate maps.
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For 5th time in a year, UKMW prompts media correction to ‘settler-only roads’ lie
For the 5th time in less than a year, UK Media Watch has prompted a correction in the British media to the false claim that there are “settler-only roads” in the West Bank. The latest such claim was in an op-ed at the Independent by Sophia Brown, a London-based academic.
Corrections secured to inaccurate BBC News website maps – part one
Following a complaint, a map that included inaccurate information has been amended 20 months later.
UKMW prompts Guardian correction to claim Israeli police crash dance parties in Ramallah
Do Israeli police raid and break up dance parties in PA controlled Palestinian cities in the West Bank? That’s what an interview in the The Observer (sister site of the Guardian) with Palestinian rapper Muqata’a, focusing on Ramallah’s dance culture, initially claimed, before a tweet by UKMW pointing out that this was erroneous.
UKMW prompts Daily Express correction to 2 claims in same article that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital
On Oct. 7th, we complained to Daily Express editors about an article that misleadingly used Tel Aviv as a synonym for Israel’s capital twice in the same article. It took nearly two weeks, but editors upheld our complaint and corrected the two sentences.
UKMW prompts correction at Indy on ‘settler attack’, and at the Telegraph on Jerusalem embassies
UK Media Watch prompted two corrections recently. At the Indy, we convinced editors to revise a sentence which misleadingly framed an accusation that settlers killed a Palestinian woman as if it were a fact, rather than just a claim. At the Telegraph, we prompted a correction to a sentence which claimed that the US was the only country to move its embassy to Jerusalem, neglecting to note that Guatemala also recently moved its embassy to the Israeli capital.
CAMERA Arabic prompts BBC Arabic correction on US and Jerusalem
After two attempts, CAMERA Arabic secures a correction from BBC Arabic.
UKMW prompts Daily Mail correction to article claiming Israel “killed” 11 year old Gaza boy
Following communication with UK Media Watch, editors at the Daily Mail corrected an article which stated, as if it were a fact, that Israeli soldiers killed an 11 year old Palestinian boy on the Gaza border.
UKMW prompts Daily Mail correction to claim Israel violated ceasefire with Hamas
We immediately filed a complaint with Daily Mail editors, taking issue with their claim that the IDF broke the ceasefire with Hamas when they used force in response to violent border riots. After several days, editors upheld our complaint, and revised the sentence in question to more accurately contextualise the Palestinian riots in relation to the ceasefire.
UKMW prompts Guardian correction to claim the Balfour Declaration granted Palestine to the Zionist Federation
The Guardian upheld our complaint to an article which erroneously claimed that the Balfour Declaration promised “the land of Palestine” to the “Zionist Federation” of the UK and Ireland.