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Simon Plosker

Simon Plosker

Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020. Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias. Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.
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Simon Plosker

Har Adar Terror Attack: Headline Fails

Media coverage of a terror attack at the gates to the Israeli community of Har Adar create issues of nuance over the exact location and question marks over the terror word.

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Pedaling a BDS Narrative

As Israel prepares to host the start of international cycling’s Giro d’Italia event next year, The Observer sees it as ‘sport-washing’ – a sinister way for Israel to distract attention from its alleged crimes.

Down Under
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Who Works Out at a “Pro-Zionist Gym?”

The Age states that a former Israeli living in Melbourne owns a chain of “pro-Zionist gyms.” Who works out at one of those?

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Video: Al Jazeera – A Muslim Brotherhood Threat to Israel?

In a Facebook Livestream video, HonestReporting’s Managing Editor Simon Plosker and former Director of the Israeli Government Press Office, Daniel Seaman discuss whether Al Jazeera should be expelled from Israel.

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Weaponizing Myanmar to Bash Israel

As Myanmar’s military comes in for international criticism, The Independent singles out Israeli arms exports to the country based on an agenda-driven source.

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Simon Plosker

HR Prompts Gaza Strip Crossing Correction

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres did not call on Israel to open the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, which is administered solely by Egypt. HR gets the correction.

News Critiques
Simon Plosker

Demolition Job: Balance and Relevant Facts Go Missing

As Israel demolishes illegally built Palestinian structures in the West Bank, The Independent’s Bethan McKernan does her own demolition job in a series of one-side stories lacking in balance and omitting relevant facts.

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Headline Fail: “The Jews Fighting For ISIS”

An inflammatory International Business Times headline falsely states that Israeli Jews are fighting for Isis, even though most of those Israelis were Arabs and converts to Islam.

Down Under
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Trashing a Transcript to Implicate Israel

Australia’s ABC Radio edits a transcript of an introduction to an interview on Gaza’s electricity crisis, deliberately removing a statement that Israel had cut the electricity at the request of the Palestinian Authority.

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Cherry Picking: Conscientiously Objectionable

An “exclusive” non-story in The Independent about an Israeli teenage girl jailed for refusing IDF military service is rehashed in the Daily Telegraph minus the nuances in the original.

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HR Fixes Double Trouble at the IBT

HonestReporting prompts the International Business Times to make two corrections following a faulty photo caption and a reversed timeline of events that falsely made Israel the instigator of violence.

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