The Guardian’s Chris McGreal gets it wrong on Israel…again.
UK Media Watch readers are likely familiar with The Guardian’s (error prone) Chris McGreal, arguably the most viscerally hostile anti-Israel voice within a very…
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Channel 4 News falsely places Mark Regev in “occupied” territory
A story was posted on the website of the British program Channel 4 News (the home of Jon Snow) based on reports that Mark Regev,…
Mainstreaming the ‘apartheid’ trope on BBC World Service radio
As was noted here in an earlier related post, on August 18th the BBC World Service radio programme ‘World Have Your Say’ included an…
BBC News website corrects inaccurate administrative detention claim
As was noted in this previous post, a recent BBC News website article inaccurately informed audiences that: “Israel has used administrative detention against Palestinians…
BBC News website corrects Jerusalem “secular majority” claim
We previously noted here that two recent BBC reports – one written and one filmed – incorrectly informed BBC audiences that the city of…
BBC News misleads audiences on administrative detention
On August 5th an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the headline “Israel jails suspected Jewish militant without trial“….
Guardian gets it wrong: falsely claims “mocked-up coffin of Rabin” at ’94 rightwing rally
Freedland’s claim that the rally in question (in 1994) included a “mocked-up coffin of Rabin” is flat-out wrong and represents a recycling the far-left myth that Bibi was somehow responsible for the former prime minister’s death. In fact, as blogger Elder of Ziyon demonstrated in response to a CNN program in 2013 which advanced this allegation, one side of the coffin actually said “Rabin is burying us” (”רבין קובר אותנו”), while the other side said “Rabin is bringing about the death of Zionism” (“רבין ממית [ה]ציונות”).
Financial Times perpetuates the myth of “sealed off” Gaza
An article at the Financial Times written by their Jerusalem correspondent John Reed (Extreme remote working at Gaza’s ‘weird news’ bureau’, July 29th) focuses on…
With A Corrected Mistranslation, Even The Guardian Looks Good Relative to the BBC
Cross posted from the blog of CAMERA Earlier this month, CAMERA’s BBC Watch and UK Media Watch ran interesting pieces discussing mistranslations by the…
Jeremy Corbyn perpetuates the myth of ‘settler only roads’ in the West Bank
If some within the UK Jewish community thought that Jeremy Corbyn would use the Labour Party hustings on Monday night at JW3 to clarify…