Here’s the latest installment in our ongoing series documenting BDS fails.
BDS is failing: a continuing series (Oct. 2016)
Indy’s Robert Fisk smears Shimon Peres as a man of ‘blood and slaughter’.
The headline of the Sept. 28th piece, “Shimon Peres was no peacemaker. I’ll never forget the sight of pouring blood and burning bodies at Qana”, says it all. Don’t remember Peres, Fisk is saying, as a statesman who held every major government position during his career, or a Nobel Peace Prize Winner for his efforts to reach an agreement with the Palestinians. Rather, he suggests, the thought of Peres should rightly evoke memories of tortured humanity inflicted by Israel’s cruel machines of war – a legacy of “blood, fire and slaughter”.
UK Media Watch prompts Daily Mail correction – admits that Bibi was cheered
As Israellycool and Yair Rosenberg reported, an internet myth was reported as news by the tabloids Page Six and Daily Mail on Sept. 26th regarding the reception received by Israel’s prime minister. Both publications claimed that Netanyahu was booed as he and his wife took their seats for a performance of “Hamilton” on Saturday night at Richard Rodgers Theatre in NYC.
UK Media Watch prompts Indy correction – The Temple Mount is back in Jerusalem
We recently posted about a Sept. 12th article highlighting photos of Muslims celebrating the festival of Eid al-Adha published at Indy100 (a brand of The Independent) which placed the Dome of the Rock, […]
Two egregious omissions illustrate continued anti-Israel bias at the Independent
Once again, the Indy has shown its propensity – at least regarding their coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – to favor propaganda over anything resembling professional journalism.
The Independent places the Temple Mount in “Palestine”
An article published earlier in the month at Indy100 (The Independent’s BuzzFeed–style website featuring ‘click bait’ and viral content) highlighting photos from around the world of Muslims celebrating the festival of Eid […]
Hinde Street Church: Now, take down that wall!
The decision-makers in Hinde Street Church have managed to erect a wall of mistrust and hurt between the Methodists and the vast majority of the Jewish Community. Israel’s security barrier is necessary to save lives. Hinde Street’s wall of hurt is entirely unnecessary.
Indy headline packs powerful propagandistic punch
Though the Indy article included information on the attempted suicide in the fifth paragraph of the article, if you were to merely read the headline and strap line, you’d be forgiven for believing that Israeli security personnel summarily executed a Palestinian child.
An Israeli Arab asks the Guardian: Why didn’t you explain the reason Israel built its “wall”?
Yesterday, we posted about a Guardian article focusing on “walls within cities” all over the world that included paragraphs on Israel’s “wall” between east Jerusalem and the West Bank, yet didn’t include any information at all on the security reasons prompting its construction. As we also noted as a point of comparison, the Guardian article did manage to explain the security concerns motivating the erection of walls in Baghdad.
Guardian writer evidently has absolutely no idea why Israel builds fences
By failing to explain why the security fence dividing Israel with the West Bank was erected in the first place, and by erroneously suggesting that Jerusalem is a racially segregated city, the Guardian once again grossly misleads readers by favouring narrative over nuanced reality in describing everyday life in the Jewish state.
Richard Millett reports on Hinde Street Methodist Church ‘Israeli checkpoint’ exhibit
Although the exhibition itself is pretty downboat the fact that the church decided to criticise checkpoints that keep Israelis alive is pretty bewildering. Nowhere in the exhibition does the church condemn the Palestinian terrorism that has killed so many Israelis.
UK Media Watch prompts Telegraph correction to ‘illegal’ Israeli settlements claim
As the Telegraph now acknowledges, the US does not consider the settlements to be “illegal” – opting instead for the non-legal designation of “illegitimate”.
Telegraph misrepresents US position on Israeli settlements
Unlike the EU, the US does not characterize the settlements as “illegal”. Rather, since the early 80s, they’ve been characterizing them as “illegitimate”, but not “illegal” – a fact noted at the Telegraph in previous reports.
Forever: An ode to the people of Israel. (A new film by Chloe Valdary)
Chloe Valdary is among the more prolific young Zionist voices, and her new film (“Forever” – An ode to the people of Israel) is well worth the watch.
Independent cherry-picks Dutch PM’s comments on BDS
Once again, the Indy has exaggerated the impact of BDS and significantly skewed the facts to reinforce the increasingly absurd narrative that Jerusalem is facing ‘increasing international isolation’.
Indy is fourth UK news site this year forced to correct claim that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital
This represents at least the fourth British media correction this year to a false claim that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital.
Indy’s snapshot of Israel: War crimes, racism and misogyny
If you were to glance at the Israel page of the Independent on Sept. 7th, this is what you would have seen. In summary: Two articles pertain to accusations of war crimes […]
UK Media Watch prompts correction to Sunday Times’ Israeli “atrocities” claim
The sentence in question runs counter to a fundamental rule of journalistic accuracy and professionalism – codified in the Editors’ Code of Practice in the UK – demands that reporters clearly “distinguish between comment, conjecture and fact”. As we wrote in our complaint to Times of London editors, though the “atrocities” referenced in the sentence clearly represents only the allegations of anti-Israel campaigners, the wording suggests to readers that that this is a fact.
Guardian contributor: diaspora Jews have a special obligation to criticize the settlements
Do non-Israeli Jews around the world have a special obligation to criticize West Bank settlements? Yes, according to Joshua Simons, a former policy adviser to Jeremy Corbyn whose op-ed (Why Jews in Labour […]
The Guardian, BDS and an Israeli named Medad
Those who founded this blog were banned from commenting in the talkback section precisely for persistently and willfully pointing out the type of gross misrepresentations found in the Guardian op-ed in question.
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