The Independent

August 1, 2021

Indy corrects claim that construction materials are not allowed in Gaza

In June, we complained to the Independent about an op-ed (“‘We came here to redeem a land an...

May 4, 2021

Indy airbrushes extremism of group the UK gov’t cut ties with

An article in the Independent by Home Affairs correspondent Lizzie Dearden focused on criticism over...

July 31, 2018

Indy promotes Noam Chomsky’s charge on “Israeli intervention in US elections”

The decision by the Indy editor to promote Noam Chomsky's charge on Israel's putative influence on t...

July 30, 2018

Indy backgrounder on ‘Gaza-Israel conflict’ riddled with distortions

The "both sides blame each other" phrasing used by the Indy Middle East correspondent is one in a lo...

July 16, 2018

UKMW prompts correction to Indy story blaming Ultra-Orthodox for lengthy El Al delay

The Indy corrected their article after we cited an official statement from EL Al which maintained th...

July 15, 2018

British media pummel Israel with some of the most biased headlines since 2014

These headlines illustrate the failure of journalists and their editors to frame articles in a manne...

June 26, 2018

UK media outlets ignore allegation that Hamas paid Gaza family to blame Israel for baby’s death

Most British outlets which covered the death eight-month-old Layla al-Ghandour have failed to publis...

June 11, 2018

Indy characterises threats made to Lionel Messi as merely ‘Israeli claims’

What the Independent sold to readers as a victory for BDS was, in actuality, a 'victory' for threats...

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 ...