This is the incendiary picture of Israelis eating popcorn and cheering as they watch the bombardment of Gaza which has sparked outrage on Twitter. – The Daily Mirror Actually, it’s not. Under the headline ‘Israelis pictured eating POPCORN and clapping as they watch deadly bombardment of Gaza,” the Daily Mirror reports on a tweet by […]
The facts are not in dispute. Israel accepted a ceasefire in the morning and suspended all military operations against Gaza. Hamas rejected the ceasefire and spent six hours firing rockets before Israel responded. Hamas is entirely responsible for the breakdown of the ceasefire initiative. But you wouldn’t know that from the Daily Telegraph’s headline: […]
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza targets killed nine terrorists and destroyed several underground rocket launchers. The Jerusalem Post notes: At least 150 rockets have landed in Israeli territory since June 14 when the West Bank operation to find three Israeli teens kidnapped and murdered by Hamas commenced, the IDF said Sunday. One Grad hit Beersheva, and […]
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, director of the Council for Advancing Arab-British Relations, Chris Doyle engages in the well-worn ploy of describing recent events in Israel as part of a “cycle of violence and revenge.” More that that, while he pays lip-service to condemning the murder of the three Israeli teens by Hamas, a closer […]
Words are important. The words the media use are doubly so, and it is critical that they use the most accurate terms when covering events. Yet while young Palestinian terrorists are referred to as “children,” the three teenage Israelis who were kidnapped and murdered are called “settlers.” Even worse, the media refuse to refer to […]
In a policy speech at Tel Aviv U., Prime Minister Netanyahu called for Kurdish independence from Iraq. According to AP, Netanyahu is “the first significant world figure to call for Kurdish independence.” The Jerusalem Post points out Bibi’s backing puts him at odds with the US, which prefers to see Iraq remain intact. Netanyahu also insisted […]
Today’s Top Stories 1. Starved of attention, Palestinian detainees ended their 63-day hunger strike. Palestinian sources told the Times of Israel that the hunger strikers were “primarily motivated by a realization that the issue had faded from the public agenda — presumably because of the kidnapping of three Israeli teens and ensuing IDF crackdown.” 2. As Iraq […]
At the end of March, we analyzed every single article about Israel published on the websites of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. We were looking for subtle yet consistent evidence of anti-Israel bias. We wanted to know if articles which contained inaccuracies about Israel were exceptions to those […]
The terrorist kidnapping of Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Frenkel, 16, a dual Israeli-American citizen has led to some problematic reporting. Here, we roundup some of the worst cases so far. Dehumanizing Israeli Teens The Guardian’s initial coverage succeeded in dehumanizing the three Israeli teens: According to The Guardian: Israeli security forces have launched a mass search of […]
June 8, 2014 12:07 by Simon Plosker The formation of a new Palestinian unity government has brought with it a sudden need to sweep the issue of Hamas under the proverbial carpet on the part of some media (and foreign governments). The Economist is a case in point. According to the magazine: This time the team is […]
