The latest column by Robert Fisk – the Independent’s “award-winning” Middle East correspondent – contains the usual distortions, half-truths and fabrications, as well as an especially appalling smear of Canadian Jewry’s largest human rights organization, B’nai Brith. […]
Focus below the line: Guardian readers ‘reflect’ on Israel and the Jews (June 30)
This post is part of a series which re-focuses on the problem of biased moderation at the Guardian’s blog ‘Comment is Free’ (CiF) – particularly, reader comments which are off-topic, ad hominem or antisemitic, and yet not […]
Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent slammed for misleading Tweet about Iranian arms shipment
Last night the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Peter Beaumont tweeted an article from Haaretz/Reuters about a new UN report (obtained by Reuters) on the shipment of rockets intercepted in the Red Sea by the Israeli […]
Chloe Valdary: The Death of a Black Man
This essay was written by Chloe Valdary and originally posted at Truth Revolt. It’s republished here with Ms. Valdary’s permission. Take a black man and accuse him of adultery. Even worse, accuse […]
Guardian’s output of Israel related commentaries continues to decline
Though it isn’t easy to empirically measure how the Guardian’s coverage of Israel has changed over the years (in a qualitative sense), one quantitative metric we’ve used relates to the volume of […]
Economist is latest media outlet to falsely claim the 3 kidnapped teens are ‘settlers’
An article in the print edition of the Economist on June 21 titled ‘Stirring Bad Blood‘ included false claims in the opening and final sentences. Here’s the first sentence of the anonymous report: THE […]
Focus below the line: Guardian readers ‘reflect’ on Israel and the Jews (June 25)
This post is part of a series which re-focuses on the problem of biased moderation at the Guardian’s blog ‘Comment is Free’ (CiF) – particularly, reader comments which are off-topic, ad hominem or antisemitic, and yet not […]
Guardian legitimizes claim that Jews are responsible for European antisemitism
For every letter published at the Guardian, presumably there are hundreds which, due to space limitations and editorial decisions, don’t get published. Thus, their letters editor must carefully choose a select few […]
Revisiting Daily Mail journo Max Hasting’s Guardian-inspired take on antisemitism
Over the past year or so, we’ve been exposing anti-Israel bias, and the legitimization of antisemitism, at UK news sites other than the Guardian – examining coverage at The Independent, Daily Telegraph, […]
The Guardian vs Myron Kaplan on ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’
The New York Metropolitan Opera will open their production of ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ on October 20th, an opera based on the 1985 hijacking by Palestinian terrorists of an Italian cruise ship […]
If Palestinians don’t respect 6 million murdered Jews, how can they co-exist with 6 million living ones?
UK media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict typically imputes good faith to Palestinians – operating under the premise that most truly want a peaceful resolution with the Jewish State. However, what if […]
Focus below the line: Guardian readers ‘reflect’ on Israel and the Jews (June 20)
This post is part of a series which re-focuses on the problem of biased moderation at the Guardian’s blog ‘Comment is Free’ (CiF) – particularly, reader comments which are off-topic, ad hominem or antisemitic, and yet not […]
Guardian erases the ethnic cleansing of Jews in the Mid-East, again and again and again…
A few hours ago we published our reply to a June 11th Guardian article which whitewashed the ethnic cleansing of over 800,000 Jews from Arab countries between 1947 and 1972 – consistent […]
Guardian puts politically correct spin on the demise of Iraq’s Jewish community
“Have you noticed how Arab nationalism can never be held solely responsible for the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East’s minorities”?, asks Point of No Return, a blog about Jewish refugees from […]
Focus below the line: Guardian readers ‘reflect’ on Israel and the Jews (June 18)
This post is part of a series which will re-focus on the problem of biased moderation at the Guardian’s blog ‘Comment is Free’ (CiF) – particularly, reader comments which are off-topic, ad hominem or […]
CiF Watch prompts correction to Guardian mistranslation of Israeli Facebook page
A couple of hours ago, we posted about a Guardian report by Orlando Crowcroft (‘Israeli leader meets families of missing teenagers as search continues, June 17th), which noted the social media battles […]
Lost in in Translation? Guardian omits key word in Israeli Facebook page (Updated)
CAMERA consistently demonstrates (with their ‘Lost in Translation‘ series) that news reports which include an erroneous translation can completely alter the meaning or political context of the events being described. And, a […]
UK media coverage of the kidnapping of three Israeli teens – a CiF Watch review
On June 15th, we posted about a Guardian report co-authored by Peter Beaumont which included a gratuitous (and erroneous) characterization to the three Israeli teens abducted by Palestinian terrorists on Thursday night […]
CiF Watch prompts correction to Guardian characterization of abducted boys as ‘teen settlers’
Earlier today, we noted that the Indy responded to our complaint and corrected a passage in a June 15th article, about the three Israeli youths abducted by Palestinian terrorists on Thursday night, which […]
CiF Watch prompts Indy correction to claim that abducted teens were ‘settlers’
Yesterday, we posted about a Guardian report co-authored by Peter Beaumont which included a false and characteristically tendentious reference to the three Israeli youths abducted by Palestinian terrorists on Thursday night as “teenage settlers“. […]
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