

News Literacy: Why Headlines Matter
Headlines certainly deserve scrutiny. It’s well-known that we don’t read most of the articles in
Headlines certainly deserve scrutiny. It’s well-known that we don’t read most of the articles in
Metro falsely claims that settlements are “built on territory Israel seized from Palestine during the 1967 Six Day War.”
CNN’s YouTube channel falsely titles US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power’s speech, “Zionism is form of racism.”
The year began amid a wave of Palestinian car-ramming, stabbing and shooting attacks. But Israel
HonestReporting’s expose of BDS activist Antony Loewenstein creates a storm as Israel’s Government Press Office considers making him leave the country.
Media such as CNN and The Times of London erroneously state that the US considers Jewish settlements to be illegal.
How is BDS activist Antony Loewenstein a member of Israel’s Foreign Press Association and has official Israeli Government Press Office press accreditation?
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Mahmoud Abbas is an Israeli collaborator, the Canadian Prime Minister is too pro-Israel, and Israel’s neighbors cause it occasional anxiety, according to Gerald Caplan in The Globe and Mail.
The Associated Press erroneously claims the Western Wall is Judaism’s holiest site. HonestReporting gets the correction.
The Independent responds to HonestReporting’s request to correct a photo caption that erroneously referred to the Western Wall as Judaism’s holiest site.
Writing in the New Matilda, Kristen Zornada attacks Israel for alleged mistreatment of Palestinian children in Israeli jails.
The Times of London amends an inaccurate headline but merely compounds the error.
The LA Times is entitled to its opinions in defense of anti-Semitism, harassment, threats and intimidation, but the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Constitution, and almost the entirety of Western civilization, disagree.
Going by Lara Marlowe’s sympathies for how terrorists are portrayed, her denial of Israel’s history, and her apparent objection to Israel having defensible borders, it seems her vision isn’t so different to that of the Palestinians.
A feature article by Rachel Kushner from Shuafat refugee camp in the New York Times fails to reveal that the author’s visit was organized by Breaking the Silence.
A Daily Telegraph feature on the movies of Warren Beatty erroneously states that Israel bombed Morocco in the 1980s. HR gets the correction.
The UN’s World Health Organization just gave Israel it’s highest honor. So why did they also single out Israel for condemnation, while ignoring the whole rest of the world?
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