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Sharon and the Wrong “Drugged Cockroach”
An otherwise fair article on Ariel Sharon by Con Coughlin in the Daily Telegraph contains the following: In fact, Sharon never described Palestinians as “drugged cockroaches.” Coughlin has apparently...
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Sky News’s Distorted Sharon Narrative
Sky News Middle East Correspondent Sam Kiley adds his own interpretation of Ariel Sharon’s legacy and is found severely wanting. He opens with: In October 1953, Israeli paratroops and commandos from...
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Ya’alon Headline Fail in The Times
Critical remarks by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon against U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have made headlines in the international media. The Times of London notes Justice Minister Tzipi...
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Demonizing Irish Times Columnist Crosses the Line
Out of countless numbers of articles on Ariel Sharon’s legacy, the Irish Times has produced a stand-out piece of hatred. That it comes from the poisonous pen of Eamonn McCann is not a surprise. McCann...
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Shades of Anti-Semitism in The Economist
An article in The Economist examining the Iranian nuclear deal barely mentions Israel. So what was the magazine thinking when it published this cartoon to accompany the article? The cartoon is clearly...
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Israel Lobby Trope in The Independent
The Independent’s Jerusalem correspondent Donald Macintyre also writes UK political columns. In his latest, he looks at the differences in approach towards Iran between UK and U.S. politicians: Many...
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Hateful Filibustering in The Scotsman
Hugh Reilly is, according to The Scotsman, “a former member of the Scottish Friends of Palestine” and has been given space in the newspaper entitled “Stop Israeli filibustering over Gaza.” According to...
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Sky News: Spot the “Error”
A Sky News report on a battle in the Israeli Supreme Court over the route of Israel’s security barrier through the Palestinian village of Battir on the West Bank produced a bit of a gaffe: Safe to say...
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Watchdog of the Week: RTE Makes On-Air Apology for Ariel Sharon Slur
When Irish broadcaster RTE referred to ”the massacre that was led by Sharon in Beirut” on its 9pm news program, former HonestReporting Mission participant Stephen Franklin, as well as fellow UK...
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Shock and Horror as Israeli Embassy Supports… Israel!
Not quite sure why The Guardian thinks this is newsworthy: Just imagine – the Israeli embassy taking sides in the SodaStream / Scarlett Johansson saga and choosing… Israel. Is The Guardian’s loathing...
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Telegraph Multiplies Palestinian Refugees
A Daily Telegraph story on John Kerry’s peace plan contains the following: Mr Kerry’s acceptance of Israel’s demand to be recognised as a Jewish state is a blow to Mr Abbas, who argues that it would...
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Will US “Jewish Zealots” Really Blacklist Celeb Photographer?
The Independent interviews English portrait and fashion photographer Rankin (also known as John Rankin Waddell) who gives his views on why Scarlett Johansson put SodaStream ahead of Oxfam: “I think the...
View ArticleChannel 4 “Cleanses” Context From Gaza Story
In a five minute report for the UK’s Channel 4 News, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller focuses on a Palestinian child with a brain tumor as a hook on which to hang Gazan suffering on...
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The Guardian Changes “Jewish Lobby” Headline
An opinion piece by Alan Elsner appeared on The Guardian’s website in advance of the upcoming AIPAC conference: But a look at the article’s URL gives a clue as to the original headline:...
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Israel Desecrates Holy Sites According to The Economist
In recent years the Muslim Waqf responsible for administering the Temple Mount has removed piles of earth from the site dumping precious Jewish antiquities into the municipal trash, deliberately...
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Telegraph Implies Tel Aviv is Israel’s Capital
How many times does the UK media need to be reminded that Tel Aviv is not the capital of Israel? A story in the Daily Telegraph on U.S. President Obama’s meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu contains the...
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Guardian Removes “Jewish Lobby” Reference
The Guardian’s report on the IDF capture of an Iranian weapons ship contained the following paragraph: The reference to a “powerful Jewish lobby” is insidious as well as inaccurate (AIPAC is not an...
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Guardian Headline Screams Bias
What would you think if you saw this in The Guardian? A headline referring to discrimination against women in the workplace plus a photo of Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset would suggest a serious...
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Only Israel to Blame In UNRWA’s Eyes
UNRWA’s deputy commissioner-general Margot Ellis writes on The Guardian’s Comment is Free how the greater media focus on Syria has impacted UNRWA’s fundraising ability for emergency projects for...
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It’s Just “Tit-For-Tat” For the Financial Times
While its actual article doesn’t employ such terminology, the Financial Times’ subhead on its Middle East news page raises some eyebrows: “Tit-for-tat” expresses a false moral equivalence between...
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