Israeli settlements

November 19, 2019

Guardian falsely asserts 40 year US position that settlements are “illegal”

Contrary to the Guardian's claim that the new US declaration rejects the US legal position on the is...

June 17, 2018

UKMW prompts 2nd British media correction to false Amnesty claim on “settler-only roads”

Following our tweet, we contacted Daily Mail editors, who similarly amended the quote to remove the ...

June 12, 2018

UKMW prompts Telegraph correction to false Amnesty claim on ‘settler-only roads’

Though the quote is still highly problematic, we're glad that we were again successful in convincing...

April 2, 2017

New settlement policy. Haaretz: ‘construction curbed’. Guardian: ‘unrestrained expansion’

Whilst it won't become clear for quite a while if the new guidelines will result in a continuation o...

February 5, 2017

UK media obfuscate ‘stunning’ US shift on settlements and peace

The White House expressed the view that the overwhelming majority of settlement construction is not ...

January 24, 2017

UKMW prompts correction relating to this question: How many settlements are in the West Bank?

Whatever one’s views on Israeli construction across the green line, the narrative often advanced i...

January 23, 2017

UK media note construction of Jewish homes in “east” Jerusalem; ignore new Palestinian homes

Are Israeli homes built across the green line only considered "illegal settlement construction" when...

September 2, 2016

Details, details, details: Telegraph misleads on Israeli settlement claim

So, the number 463 includes only 50 new homes, 234 units in one new nursing home building and the le...

February 28, 2016

British MP’s query on Jerusalem prompting David Cameron’s ‘shock’ is based on lie

Widely reported comments last week highly critical of Israeli construction in east Jerusalem by Dav...

September 2, 2014

Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell can't "spot the difference" between Russia and Israel

Within the growing body of work in the field of Comically Erroneous Political Comparisons, Guardian ...