Ignoring the Jewish “Nakba” May 21, 2012 12:24 by GuestPost This guest post was written exclusively for HonestReporting by Lyn Julius, the co-founder of Harif, a UK group representing Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. This year, as every year, the international media noted Nakba Day, the day when Palestinians mark the anniversary […]
They Don’t Like Us – Should We Care? May 17, 2012 15:09 by Simon Plosker This op-ed by Simon Plosker, HR’s Managing Editor, was originally published at The Times of Israel. The latest annual Country Ratings Poll of the BBC World Service makes for grim reading. That Israel finds itself in such dubious company as […]
by David J. Rusin PJ Media May 8, 2012 Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for the egregiousness of its self-censorship and bias. Even more striking than the number of controversies involving suppression of Islam-critical speech on its channels are the frank acknowledgements […]
When is murder not murder? According to the BBC, when Jews or Israelis are the victims. In a feature on Palestinians prisoners released and exiled as part of the Gilad Shalit deal , the BBC states: The releases were enormously controversial in Israel, where some of the prisoners were seen as mass murderers. When terrorists […]
It has been a year of big stories – Gilad Shalit, the Israel-Turkey meltdown, and the Palestinian statehood bid – all taking place against the backdrop of the Arab Spring and Iran’s atomic urgency. We thank readers for all the Dishonest Reporter discussion on our web site, Facebook community and emails. The conversation gave us a […]
In the battle for public opinion, Israel’s enemies often claim that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based on racial discrimination, apartheid laws and segregation. The goal is convince the public that Israel is like apartheid South Africa and therefore lacking in legitimacy. In the latest effort to draw false analogies based on race, a Palestinian media […]
Haven’t we been here before? Palestinian terrorists launch or attempt to launch rockets from Gaza on to Israeli towns and cities and Israel responds. So who is ultimately responsible? And which side is engaged in aggressive acts and which is carrying out defensive measures? You’d think it was obvious. But not to some of the […]
The BBC has a vacuous idea of balanced reporting. While it is happy to pass judgment on Israel in almost entirely negative terms, value judgments and even values themselves are dispensed with when it comes to pushing the Palestinian narrative. How then to explain the latest piece of BBC coverage of the Gilad Shalit prisoner […]
Even in the realm of public diplomacy, Israel is singled out for trying to defend itself. Take this article from Politico that profiles the IDF’s New Media Desk: The IDF is also proactive on social media, with accounts on Twitter (in English, French and Arabic), the photo-sharing website Flickr and the video-posting website YouTube. “We […]
Many of you will have been drawn to open this article by virtue of the headline. After all, spying affairs with a dash of Israeli involvement makes big news. But what about an Israeli spy scandal that actually involves no Israelis? A former US government scientist has confessed to attempted espionage after he sought to […]
