The Economist

July 6, 2020

Economist errs in claiming grassroots org is “Israeli backed”

The following paragraph in an article at The Economist “Facebook has been bending to the will ...

March 30, 2020

Economist echos media lie that Israel restricts medicine to Gaza

The Economist is the latest British media outlet to mislead on the coronavirus-relate healthcare cri...

November 24, 2019

Economist corrects article alleging ’40 year US policy’ that settlements are “illegal”

Editors upheld our complaint after we provided evidence demonstrating that between the late 1970s an...

April 15, 2019

Arab dictators convince the Economist that they want their Jews back

Though the idea of a ‘thaw’ in Arab antisemitism may sound good and seem attractive to editors a...

March 27, 2019

Indy’s Robert Fisk crosses the line to antisemitism

If populism, in both right-wing and left-wing manifestations, often promotes the idea that ‘th...

March 20, 2018

Israeli happiness defies media ‘doom and gloom’ narrative.

Maybe the story that best captures the disconnect between the media portrayal of Israel, and the act...

February 8, 2018

Economist continues to mislead over Israeli historian’s alleged “concentration camp” analogy

The decision by The Economist to leave the false impression that a leading Holocaust historian evoke...

February 4, 2018

Economist falsely suggests Israeli historian compared African detention centers to “concentration camps”.

We contacted Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer by email, to ask him if, as The Economist claimed, he'...

October 25, 2017

UKMW prompts Economist correction to misattributed dialogue in review of the play ‘Oslo’

An Oct. 6th review of the play ‘Oslo’ published in The Economist included the following ...

July 6, 2017

UKMW prompts correction to Economist claim controversial book was ‘removed’ from curriculum

We contacted The Economist over a claim that a controversial book (featuring a Jewish-Palestinian ro...