Temple Mount

December 22, 2014

CiF Watch prompts correction to Indy claim that Western Wall is Judaism's holiest site

Yesterday we posted about an article in the Independent representing the latest example of a mains...

December 21, 2014

Independent falsely claims the Western Wall is Judaism's holiest site

Since 2013, CiF Watch has prompted two corrections at the The Telegraph to reports erroneously cla...

December 17, 2014

Who are the extremists? Jews praying at their holiest site, or Muslims objecting to peaceful Jewish prayer?

The following passage about violence in Jerusalem and recent tensions surrounding the Temple Mount, ...

December 10, 2014

Guardian/AP omits 'minor' detail in story: An alleged Palestinian plot to kill Obama

The Guardian tradition of tendentious, misleading editing in stories involving Israelis and Palesti...

December 3, 2014

Overview of BBC reporting on recent violence and terror in Israel

Since late October much of the BBC’s Israel-related subject matter has been focused on the sur...

December 1, 2014

Religion, political narrative and BBC Radio 4’s ‘Sunday’

On November 23rd the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday’ – which claims to address R...

November 30, 2014

One to watch on BBC Two: ‘Haifa to the Negev’

h/t MC On Wednesday December 3rd at 21:00 GMT, BBC Two will air an edition of the documentary travel...

November 29, 2014

Kevin Connolly’s cameo of a ‘popular’, ‘forgiving’ terrorist on BBC Radio 4

The BBC Jerusalem Bureau’s Kevin Connolly continued his role as the corporation’s ‘...

November 27, 2014

BBC coverage of Har Nof terror attack: Kevin Connolly’s history of Jerusalem

On November 19th – the day following the terror attack in the Kehilat Ya’akov Synagogue ...

November 26, 2014

BBC coverage of Har Nof terror attack: World Service’s ‘Newshour’ – part two

Like the version of the programme broadcast earlier in the day (discussed here), the later edition o...