Not All Op-Eds Are Equal in the New York Times May 24, 2012 13:57 by Simon Plosker Could the New York Times possibly publish an opinion piece that didn’t paint Israel in the worst possible light? Seemingly not as column inches are given over to Yousef Munayyer in a piece damningly titled “Not All Israeli […]
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 […]
Ardent Zionists v Enlightened Jews: An Assault on British Jewry May 14, 2012 12:06 by Simon Plosker Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has been critiqued regularly by HonestReporting over the years. The Independent columnist has a particularly vicious streak when it comes to Israel, which she routinely describes as a “racist” and “apartheid” state. Indeed, she has a […]
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 […]
Media Psychology 101 – What’s Wrong With This Metaphor? Israel and the Cycle of Violence May 10, 2012 9:58 by GuestPost Over the years, HonestReporting has analyzed and critiqued hundreds of articles, editorials and opinion pieces. But what goes through the minds of the journalists and writers that influence them to treat Israel in a […]
The Australian’s Apartheid Cloud May 7, 2012 13:05 by Simon Plosker The Australian’s headline reads: “Living under a residency cloud in Israel” (subscription only – full article reproduced here) But this is no fluffy, benign cloud. For the original headline, as captured by Google’s cache before complaints presumably forced The Australian to amend it, was: […]
Starved of the Truth: New York Times Fails its Readers May 7, 2012 13:06 by Simon Plosker Referring to hunger striking Palestinian prisoners as the “newest heroes of the Palestinian cause”, recently-arrived Israel correspondent for the New York Times, Jodi Rudoren makes an unpleasant story even worse in the eyes of the reader. The job of a […]
CBS Exposed: Bob Simon’s “Theatrical Outrage” April 29, 2012 10:39 by Pesach Benson Thousands of concerned individuals have already written to CBS to express their disgust at Bob Simon’s report on Christians in the Holy Land on CBS’s 60 Minutes. It’s not too late to add your voice and let CBS know what you think. […]
Media Gets Dirty Down Under – Part 1 April 24, 2012 10:54 by GuestPost This article was written exclusively for HonestReporting by Emily Gian, the Israel Advocacy Analyst for the Zionist Council of Victoria in Australia and a PhD Candidate in Israeli Literature. There are two major sources of international news in print form available on […]
CBS 60 Minutes: An Unholy Attack on Israel April 24, 2012 11:04 by Simon Plosker The status of Christians in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza has been featured in the media on numerous occasions. The April 22 edition of CBS’s 60 Minutes, however, presented an unbalanced picture blaming Israel for virtually every difficulty experienced […]
