Bethan McKernan

May 24, 2018

Editor’s note on why corrections matter – the perfect is the enemy of the good

The result of our work isn't revolutionary change in their reporting from the region, but significan...

May 23, 2018

Indy falsely claims Israeli troops “were ordered to use live fire” on 40,000 demonstrators (Updated)

This is but one extraordinarily misleading sentence within the cacophony of sensational, biased and ...

May 16, 2018

Indy evokes Syrian use of chemical weapons in accusing Israel of “gassing” a baby in Gaza

There hasn't been a shortage of inflammatory, misleading and inaccurate media claims during coverage...

March 15, 2018

UKMW prompts correction to Indy claim that no Arabs in Jerusalem are citizens

Whilst it's true that MOST of the more than 325,00 Arabs living in the city are permanent residents,...

February 15, 2018

UKMW prompts correction to Indy article on Iranian drone incident which omitted…the DRONE

In initial reports on Sunday and Monday, following hostilities on Saturday between Israel and Syria,...

October 1, 2017

Indy story on Gaza student “denied” visa to study in UK riddled with distortions

An article in the Independent suggests that Israel denied a travel visa for a 28-year-old Gaza stud...

September 17, 2017

Indy slams Israel’s ‘continuing’ arming of Burma, but omits fact there’s been no major sales since 2011

To recap: The Indy runs a story focusing exclusively on Israeli arms sales to the Myanmar governmen...

September 14, 2017

Indy journo who legitimised 9/11 truther writes new article warning of conspiracy theorists

Tellingly, nowhere in her new article warning of the dangers of Middle East conspiracy theories - pu...

September 6, 2017

UKMW prompts Indy correction to story about 2006 Gaza beach incident

Editors at The Independent upheld our complaint about two misleading claims in an article focusing...

August 17, 2017

Indy story on Halamish terrorist cites part of his last Facebook post, but omits antisemitic bit

Similarly, al-Abed's apparent belief that Jews are subhuman certainly at least partially explains h...