Israel will bar entry of U.N. officials trying to investigate alleged effects of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria on Palestinian Authority Arabs, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Sunday morning. “Once again the Human Rights Council has proven that it is essentially a rubber stamp of the Palestinians and it has again been proven […]
The 47-nation UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted five resolutions condemning Israel Thursday, including one that establishes a massive new “fact-finding mission” to investigate alleged Israeli violations relating to settlements. The vote was 36 in favor, 1 against (U.S.) and 10 abstaining. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was quick to issue a statement denouncing the UNHRC. […]
It was a landslide. HonestReporting readers were asked to choose this year’s Dishonest Reporting Award, and they spoke out — with a vengeance we haven’t seen for nominations in previous years. In comments on our web site, our Facebook community, and in emails, accusations of anti-Semitism turned the heat up on an annual discussion normally about imbalanced […]
In a visit sponsored by the non-governmental organization Save The Children (an NGO not immune to anti-Israel bias according to NGO Monitor), the Daily Telegraph’s Mary Riddell reports on “The wretched scandal of Gaza“. The real scandal, however, is Riddell’s Pavlovian need to attribute blame for Gaza’s situation solely to Israel. She paints an almost […]
Libya Coverage Exposes Media Double Standards With the turmoil and upheaval in the Middle East, it is always interesting to examine how the media is covering events compared with coverage of Israel. Particularly in a situation where Western nations are involved in a military campaign, as in the case of Libya, it can be enlightening […]
How Moral Equivalence Erodes Accurate Reporting When Judge Richard Goldstone published his famous op-ed reconsidering the Goldstone Report, he – perhaps unintentionally – revealed one of the predominant biases of the Goldstone Committee that produced the report. The committee, it appears, was operating under a deep-set assumption of moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. The […]
Battle Over Goldstone Report Continues Judge Richard Goldstone’s Washington Post op-ed admitting he was wrong about key elements in his infamous Goldstone Report on the war in Gaza unleashed a torrent of media coverage over the past week. In his original report, Goldstone wrote that Israel and Hamas were both guilty of war crimes and […]
MK Danny Danon (Likud) returned on Thursday from a visit to the United States, where he oversaw the drafting of a lawsuit against Justice Richard Goldstone, author of the Goldstone Report. “I just returned from the U.S.,” Danon said during an interview on Thursday with Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew website. “I sat together with Jewish lawyers […]
Why are Afghan civilian casualties “accidents” but Palestinian civilian casualties are “war crimes”? Nato and Afghan government forces have recently launched the largest military operation against the Taliban since the beginning of the conflict in Afghanistan in 2001. Like the IDF during Operation Cast Lead, US and British troops face an enemy that cares little for […]
Israel released a document (pdf format) it sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in response to the Goldstone report. The 46-page paper primarily defends the integrity of Israel’s due process and civilian oversight of the IDF’s investigations into 150 separate incidents and reports. The paper also dismisses four of the Goldstone report’s 36 specific […]
