BBC News website amends claim of Israeli strike in Syria
Earlier this month we noted that an article titled “Syria war: ‘Israeli strike’ hits military site near Damascus airport” that appeared on the BBC…
correction
Hamas leader contradicts Financial Times claim the group no longer seeks Israel’s demise
It’s actually quite astonishing that a leading news outlet like Financial Times is willing to parrot propaganda on Hamas’s putative move to the centre so clearly at odds with the truth that not even the group’s top officials are sticking to the talking points.
No, Ben-Gurion did NOT say “We must expel Arabs and take their place.”
Careful research by CAMERA demonstrated that the alleged quote – suggesting that Ben-Gurion favoured the ethnic cleansing of Arabs – represents the opposite of the truth.
Inaccuracies unchallenged in BBC ‘Hardtalk’ interview on UN ‘apartheid’ report
The April 17th edition of the BBC programme ‘Hardtalk‘ was devoted to an interview with Rima Khalaf – the former head of UN ESCWA….
Times of London misleadingly suggests Israeli blockade causes Gaza health crisis
Once again, we see how the media’s default narrative, regardless of the particulars, is to hold Israel responsible for every conceivable social and political ill within Palestinian society, while downplaying or ignoring the role its leaders plays in perpetuating their suffering.
Reviewing BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians in Q1 2017 – part two
A summary of the BBC News website’s coverage of Israel and the Palestinians during Q1 2017.
Guardian restores ‘corrected’ article – but still includes claim of wall around Haifa! (Update)
This morning we noticed that the article was restored by editors. And, whilst the highly inflated PA unemployment stats were removed entirely and “summary killings” were changed to “killings”, they failed to correct the most bizarre claim, that a 8 metre high concrete wall surrounds Haifa!
Guardian erroneously claims Israel “censored” book by Dorit Rabinyan.
Israelis are free go to bookshops anywhere in the country and purchase the book, Borderlife, by Dorit Rabinyan. The book made it to the Israeli best seller’s list. Israeli students can borrow the book from libraries. Israeli teachers in advanced literature classes across the country are free to assign the book to their students if they choose. Yet, the Guardian somehow claimed that the book was “censored” by Israel.
A response to Times of London: Six reasons to reject HRW’s latest attack on Israel
The report (“Israel ‘blocking human rights researchers’”, March 3), by Gabriel Samuels, cited HRW’s accusation that Israel has been “preventing foreign researchers from entering the Gaza Strip to document potential abuses”, but failed to seek comment from NGO Monitor, the group most knowledgeable about the Israel related work of the group.
Channel 4 News fails to challenge Palestinian claim on Jerusalem eviction
A March 7th Channel 4 News video segment by international editor Lindsey Hilsum failed to challenge the narrative that Palestinians are being unjustly evicted…