Ben Lynfield

June 20, 2023

Guardian adopts terminology of Palestinian terrorists

On June 19th, the Guardian published three separate pieces on an IDF military operation earlier in t...

May 21, 2023

Guardian chooses narrative over facts about Jews and Jerusalem

In 2018-19, the Guardian routinely described the weekly Hamas-organised violent Palestinian riots on...

August 30, 2022

Guardian apoplectic over Aviv Geffen’s apology to settlers

Normally, given the politically polarising times we live in, you’d expect an apology offered b...

April 17, 2022

Guardian obfuscates Palestinian desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque

At a time when more and more journalists have decided to eschew objectivity and truth in favor of pa...

August 15, 2021

The Scotsman retracts false claims from anti-Israel attack piece

Earlier in the month, we posted about a op-ed in The Scotsman written by former Indy Middle East cor...

August 1, 2021

Scotsman op-ed vilifying Israel is riddled with errors and distortions

The hyperbole in an Aug. 1st op-ed by Ben Lynfield published in The Scotsman begins in the headline:...

June 11, 2018

Indy characterises threats made to Lionel Messi as merely ‘Israeli claims’

What the Independent sold to readers as a victory for BDS was, in actuality, a 'victory' for threats...

February 21, 2016

Independent revises inaccurate headline on Eisenkot comments

We’ve posted frequently on UK media headlines about the current wave of Palestinian terror th...

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 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...