A round-up of the week’s Middle East related background reading.
Weekend long read
Guardian writer falsely claims Israel is first country since Holocaust to shoot asylum seekers.
So this Guardian piece downplays the Holocaust, attempts to turn Jews within Israel against each other and, in my opinion, compares Israeli policy to the Nazis
Revisiting a BBC journalist’s claim about ‘Palestinian land’
This is a cross post from BBC Watch.
Guardian journalists silent on murder of Rina Shnerb and celebrating Palestinians.
When last Friday, a few days after her 17th birthday, beautiful Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb was murdered by a terrorist while she was out trekking with her family, and some Palestinians celebrated her murder, the truth-to-power-speaking Guardian journalism suddenly stopped.
‘Homemade’ Palestinian weapons return to BBC news reporting
The BBC Jerusalem bureau correspondents repeatedly describe the missile arsenals of the Gaza Strip based terrorist organisations as “homemade rockets”.
BBC News ‘contextualises’ terror attack with ‘settlements’ and ‘international law’
All four versions of the report also closed with the BBC’s standard but partial mantra on ‘settlements’ and ‘international law’ despite the fact that it has nothing to do with the story ostensibly being reported.
Weekend long read
Middle East related background reading.
Guardian journalists use six year old PTSD study to accuse Israel of abandoning its soldiers.
PTSD is a serious issue in Israel and every country, but to single out the Israeli government for the accusation of “abandoning” its soldiers must be another low for Guardian journalism.
Tom Faber’s piece drives younger Guardian readers towards a hatred of Israel.
The Guardian has a trendy hip-hop section but after reading Tom Faber’s recent interview with Palestinian hip-hop duo BLTNM, made up of Shabjdeed and Al Nather, we weren’t sure if the piece’s main aim was to profile them or whitewash Israel out of existence.
The Guardian’s moment of clarity on Israel’s refusal to allow Tlaib/Omar entry.
It’s rare to see Israel’s argument laid out in any news article let alone in The Guardian. Holmes shows that Israel’s refusal to allow Tlaib and Omar entry isn’t simply “to quiet anti-occupation activism”.
BBC Radio 4’s uncritical amplification of Ilhan Omar’s falsehood
This is a cross post from BBC Watch.
Superficial BBC reporting of Tlaib and Omar story
This is a cross-post from BBC Watch
BBC approach to gender segregated events differs with location
In Kenya it’s a ‘safe space’. In Israel it’s ‘discrimination’.
BBC Arabic breaches style guide on Temple Mount
This is a cross post from BBC Watch Earlier this week we documented descriptions in BBC World Service radio news bulletins of a premeditated demonstration of intolerance at a site holy to […]
UKMW prompts Guardian to restore omitted paragraph on Palestinian violence
Our analysis showed that, based on our review of other news outlets that published a version of that same AP article, the Guardian was the only one that omitted AP’s paragraph noting the Palestinian violence which caused the clashes.
Guardian edits out Palestinian violence from AP story on Temple Mount clashes
Other than the Guardian, every news outlet we surveyed that published a version of the same AP report included that original paragraph noting the Palestinian violence which caused the clashes on Sunday – providing another example of how the Guardian routinely omits important facts in order to obfuscate Palestinian culpability.
Western Arabic news outlets distinguish between ‘good Jews’ and ‘bad Zionists’
At the end of the day, the reports all relied on the same premise: only a clear distinction between good Jews and Zionists could exonerate Tunisian Jewry and clear them of the charge of being “Zionists in Jews’ clothing”.
Against Jewish Conversion Therapy
Those Labour activists who advocate for anti-Zionism (an opposition to the existence of a Jewish state) are doing just that by demanding that, for acceptance into their ‘progressive’ community, Jews renounce and abandon a key component of their Jewish identity.
UKMW prompts ITV News correction to Israeli security fence omission
We complained about the omission to ITV News, encouraged our followers to do the same, and directly tweeted their international editor – all of which eventually resulted in the addition of the following new sentence to the article.
UKMW prompts Guardian correction to Palestinian refugee claim
Though we never heard back from Guardian editors, the journalist, to her credit, did eventually respond to apologise, and informed us that the sentence would be corrected.
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