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Complaint Against BBC News Israel Story Upheld
The BBC’s Israel coverage is under the spotlight again as the BBC Trust, the body charged with overseeing the corporation’s output has upheld a complaint against a BBC Radio 4 program in a case that...
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Guardian Headline Fail Over Golan Heights Attack
Both the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian published a Reuters report on Israel’s response to a Syrian attack on its soldiers in the Golan Heights. But check out the respective headlines: The Daily...
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A Polemic to Palestinian Victim-hood
Karma Nabulsi How does Israel fare when it comes to its treatment of Palestinians compared to, for example, Syria? Writing in The Guardian, Karma Nabulsi finds a way to make Israel equally culpable...
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Guardian Corrects the Error
The Guardian’s latest report on the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process contained the following paragraph: HonestReporting sent an email to The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Peter...
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The Times and “Occupied Arab Land”
Writing on the breakdown of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, The Times (subscription-only) includes the following paragraph in its report: The reference to “occupied Arab land” is inaccurate and...
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Palestinian Marathon: Media Runs the Errors
A number of media outlets have covered the Israeli refusal to allow a Gaza marathon runner to cross into the West Bank in order to take part in a Bethlehem marathon. Cue another opportunity for the...
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The Economist Gets its “Settlers” Wrong
A recent article in The Economist reports on the breakdown of peace talks and refers to the murder of Baruch Mizrahi, who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist while driving to a family Passover Seder:...
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Passover Terror Passed Over
Baruch Mizrahi (photo credit: AFP/HO/Israel Police) Possibly the worst reporting on the terrorist murder of Baruch Mizrahi, who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist while driving to a family Passover...
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Sky News Misreads Mainstream Israelis
In an analysis for Sky News, Middle East News Editor Tom Rayner examines John Kerry’s “apartheid” remarks and writes the following: The two-state solution mantra is that Israel cannot remain both...
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The Guardian Promotes Anti-Zionist NGO
Only days before Israel celebrates 66 years since independence, it’s no surprise that The Guardian is focusing on “Remembering the Nakba” by profiling the Zochrot non-governmental organization (NGO):...
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Anti-Semitism a Problem? Not For The Guardian
The Anti-Defamation League recently released a major survey of attitudes towards Jews in over 100 countries around the world. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the 16 countries deemed to hold the most...
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The Independent: Zionism “Displaced the Palestinians”
According to The Independent: Today, Palestinian activists were scathing about the Pope’s plans to make the first visit by a pontiff to the tomb of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, the political...
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Success: Daily Mail Corrects Western Wall Error
The Daily Mail’s coverage of the Pope’s visit to Israel included a number of references to Jerusalem’s Western Wall: Pope Francis today continued his diplomatic initiative to revitalise the stalled...
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UK Press Regulator Appoints Former Ambassador to Israel
Sir Tom Phillips The full 12-member board of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), which is replacing the Press Complaints Commission, has been announced. On more than one occasion,...
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Audacious Churnalism Smears Israel
UPDATE – MAY 30: Following correspondence with Lizzie Dearden, this article has been amended. We accept that Dearden did, in fact, interview Michal Rotem of NCF via email and we also accept that she in...
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Financial Times Whitewashes Brussels Anti-Semitism
The arrest of the alleged perpetrator of the shooting attack on the Brussels Jewish Museum has raised the specter of European jihadists returning from Syria and carrying out similar attacks on the...
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Sympathy For the BDS Devil
No doubt the Rolling Stones’ concert in Tel Aviv last night (Wednesday) was historic. (This writer was one of some 50,000 fans who enjoyed a fantastic show.) But controversial? Only in the eyes of the...
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Hamas, the “Political Organization”
The Daily Mail could be commended for publishing a photo essay exposing Palestinian children being put through military training at a Hamas-run summer camp. However, despite the photos showing the...
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More Evidence of Anti-Israel Editorial Agenda at The Independent
Only last month HonestReporting critiqued a piece by Lizzie Dearden, a self-described “online journalist” for The Independent. Lizzie’s articles are written, not at the scene of the story, but from her...
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