Ben Lynfield

November 23, 2014

Indy buries the lead on Arab Jerusalemite support for synagogue massacre

The mayor of Ashkelon is already backtracking, after rightfully coming under fire from politicians a...

November 12, 2014

CiF Watch prompts Indy correction to claim about Muslim prayer at the Mount

In addition to the bizarre suggestion by Ben Lynfield at The Independent that recent violence in Jer...

July 9, 2014

UK journo uses subjective word 'terrorist' for Jews, but not for Hamas

The Independent doesn’t appear to have a permanent Israel correspondent in the region anymore,...

June 17, 2014

UK media coverage of the kidnapping of three Israeli teens – a CiF Watch review

On June 15th, we posted about a Guardian report co-authored by Peter Beaumont which included a gratu...

June 6, 2014

One man's "illegal settlement" is another man's "historic Jewish homeland"

Even though Hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization by the US and EU, most Western journalis...

May 21, 2014

UK media silent about Pope's meeting with Mufti who claimed that Muslims' destiny is to kill Jews

A report at the Independent by Ben Lynfield focuses on Palestinian activists who are “scathin...

May 16, 2014

CiF Watch prompts Indy correction – acknowledges that Arab towns were built since '48

On May 7th we posted about Ben Lynfield’s column (Netanyahu’s ‘Jewish state̵...

May 7, 2014

The Independent fails to fact-check claim in story about 'Jewish State' proposal

As our posts noting CiF Watch-prompted corrections often demonstrate, beyond the UK media’s bi...

February 27, 2014

How Jewish prayer represents “an extreme provocation to Muslims worldwide”

UK media coverage of “tensions” at the Temple Mount at times devolves into the absurd, m...

August 27, 2013

Indy legitimises ludicrous charge that Israel is ‘ethnically cleansing’ Jerusalem

If facts and logic governed the media’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, then rec...