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It’s been a big month for HonestReporting, with trips, events and appearances. In October, HR’s
Daniel Pomerantz
November 8, 2017
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It’s been a big month for HonestReporting, with trips, events and appearances. In October, HR’s
The Guardian’s headline falsely implies that UK politician Priti Patel wanted to send British aid money to the Israeli army.
Writing in the Daily Mail, historian Dominic Sandbrook makes sweeping and inaccurate generalizations, historical statements lacking in context, and even falls for the very propaganda he claims to oppose.
If The Independent is going to opine about the alleged evils of the Balfour Declaration, the least it can do is get the facts right. HonestReporting gets a correction.
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The Independent’s Bethan McKernan relies on false terrorist propaganda to incorrectly claim an air strike on a terror tunnel in Gaza.
The Daily Telegraph removes a reference to the “current government in Tel Aviv” following a complaint from HonestReporting.
Media outlets, including the BBC, Washington Post and The Guardian all fail to mention that the IDF’s destruction of a terror tunnel from Gaza took place on the Israeli side of the border.
Yehudit Reishtein writes about her experiences on an HonestReporting field trip to Tsfat hearing about and meeting Syrian patients being treated at Israel’s Ziv Medical Center.
If you have to misrepresent facts to make your point, chances are you’re just plain wrong.
The Daily Mail’s Mail Online erroneously blames the Israeli police rather than Facebook for a bizarre Arabic mistranslation that led to the wrongful arrest of a Palestinian.
ABC News Australia misleadingly states that a bugle blown 100 years ago at the Battle of Beersheba is “heading back to Palestine.”
Donald Trump talked about possibly destroying North Korea. But this isn’t just about America –
The Associated Press claims that Israeli PM Netanyahu loves Trump and hates Obama because he prefers leaders who oppose human rights. Only one problem: when you actually do the research, it turns out that none of it is true.
In a blatant example of imbalanced reporting, the BBC includes a video interview with a prominent pro-BDS activist in a story yet fails to include a counterpoint.
To receive relief funds, Hurricane Harvey victims must not boycott Israel. Except that the story isn’t true, and the media must be held to account.
Despite Australia not recognizing Palestinian statehood, the Daily Mail unilaterally upgrades the Palestinian diplomatic representation to that of an embassy with an ambassador.
The Guardian gives a voice to the Palestinian campaign against the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
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