Here’s a look back at our most popular posts in 2015. UK Media Watch would like to wish you and your family a happy and healthy new year! 1. Telegraph and Daily […]
UK Media Watch’s most popular posts in 2015
“Sophisticated” Economist revives facile cartoon smearing Israel
The following cartoon was posted yesterday on the Facebook page of The Economist: The cartoon was originally published by The Economist in July 2014, during the war between Hamas and Israel. As […]
UK Media Watch prompts Daily Express to remove Israel from ‘worst places for Christians’ list
On Dec. 28th we posted about an extraordinarily misleading article published in the Daily Express. The British tabloid actually put Israel atop a list purporting to “reveal” the “worst places to be Christian […]
Telegraph misleads on Palestinian university’s martyr-themed xmas tree
Earlier in the month, media outlets reported on an unusual Christmas tree at a Palestinian university in east Jerusalem. To mark the beginning of the holiday season, Al-Quds University has unveiled a “nationalist […]
Daily Express bizarrely puts Israel atop list of ‘worst places to be Christian this Christmas’
It sometimes seems as if the UK media truly can’t help themselves. Not only do news sites fail to acknowledge the undeniable truth that Israel is the only state in the Middle […]
Guardian falsely claims that PA official Jibril Rajoub supports non-violence
A Dec. 25th Guardian report by Peter Beaumont (West Bank risks being plunged into chaos in 2016, warn Palestinian officials), on the response by PA officials to the latest wave of terror, […]
Merry Christmas from the Jewish State!
We’d like to wish you peace, good will and happiness during Christmas and throughout the New Year – from Israel, the only country in the Middle East that fiercely protects the rights of […]
Times of London places Israel in story on international persecution of Christians
“Christians represent the most persecuted people on earth in the 21st century,” argued Anglican Bishop Nick Baines in a Christmas Eve op-ed at Times of London Baines, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s representative on […]
No, Hannah Weisfeld, there isn’t a ‘war on human rights activists’. There’s a terror war against Jews
You can tell a lot about people by what motivates them to express righteous indignation on traditional or social media. If we’re narrowly dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it seems that any […]
Independent amplifies the smears of EU-funded group ‘Breaking the Silence’
There’s nothing at all surprising about an op-ed published at the Independent by their former Jerusalem correspondent Donald Macintyre – at least for anyone even remotely familiar with his views. In the […]
UK Media Watch prompts Guardian to replace inappropriate photo of Samir Kuntar
Earlier today, we posted about a wildly inappropriate photo chosen by Guardian editors to illustrate a story about an airstrike which killed Samir Kuntar, the Lebanese-Druze terrorist who brutally murdered several Israelis, […]
Ask the Guardian why it chose photo depicting a ‘child-friendly’ child-killing terrorist (Update)
(See important update below) On July 15th, 2008, CAMERA provided the following background on Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese Druze terrorist, and member of the Palestine Liberation Front, before his release in a deal […]
Financial Times amplifies Palestinians’ exploitation of Christamas, Part 3
Palestinians are quite adept at cynically exploiting clashes in Bethlehem between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers to take advantage of the UK media’s appetite for Christmas–themed narratives of the conflict. Sometimes, they even drag Santa Claus into […]
BDS is failing – a continuing series (Dec. 2015)
Here’s the latest installment in our monthly series of posts detailing BDS fails: Economic BDS Fails Texas company Revionics Inc. has acquired Israeli company Marketyze, Texas-based end-to-end merchandize optimization developer Revionics Inc. has acquired Israeli […]
Why Abbas’s terror defense won’t change UK media’s narrative of a ‘moderate’ PA leader
In a speech just hours after a Palestinian terrorist rammed his car into pedestrians in Jerusalem earlier in the week, injuring 12 Israelis (including a 15-month-old baby), PA President Mahmoud Abbas referred […]
Guardian: Not clear if ‘rock throwing dolls’ were heading to Palestinian Authority
The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont yesterday reported on the seizure, by Israeli Custom officials, of thousands of stone-throwing dolls with keffiyahs saying “Jerusalem is ours” and “Jerusalem we are coming.” The shipment, noted Beaumont, “was […]
UK Media Watch prompts correction to Indy claim about ‘bizarre’ #Israeli law
On Sunday, we posted about the following article at the Independent Number one on their list was a “bizarre” Israeli law: However, as we noted in our post, though this law was […]
Indy highlights taunting of Palestinian journo by soldiers, yet buries Jerusalem terror attack
A great contrast in priorities was on display at the Independent in editorial decisions involving two articles published yesterday. Last night, they published a full report on an incident in the […]
Indy cites ‘still valid bizarre Israeli law’…which was actually repealed 13 years ago
The Independent (especially it’s i100 brand) often goes for BuzzFeed-style clickbait headlines, such as this, published on Dec. 11th: Here’s the entire article, which includes, first on the list, a ‘bizarre law’ in […]
High Level Military Group report contradicts UK media narrative on #Gaza War
Of course, the conclusions of the HLMG report completely contradict the dominant British media narrative on the conflict, and thus will almost certainly be ignored by the same journalists who are always willing to amplify reports by radical NGOs critical of Israel’s conduct during the war.
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