Coverage of Gaza amputee’s death showed the UK media at their worst
Given the IDF statement, and the fact that the Hamas health ministry refused to cooperate with the IDF investigation, at the end of the day, media reports that Abu Thuraya was killed by an IDF sniper...
View ArticleIsrael-India ties defy absurd media narrative of Jerusalem’s “increasing...
Netanyahu’s trip to India reveals two sides of Israel that do not receive enough media attention – Israel as a partner in solving the major humanitarian issues of the day, and Israel as a country that...
View ArticleMedia grossly misreport Iranian drone incident and crash of Israeli F-16...
Guest post by Akus We have become used to the media misreporting events from Israel. However, the reports that followed the recent destruction of an Iranian drone that entered Israeli airspace were […]
View ArticleUK media ignore Abbas’s howler at the UN that Palestinians ‘foster a culture...
If foreign journalists covering the region held Palestinian leaders to the same level of critical scrutiny that they consistently hold Israeli leaders to, the ten seconds of Abbas addressing the UN...
View ArticleIsraeli happiness defies media ‘doom and gloom’ narrative.
Maybe the story that best captures the disconnect between the media portrayal of Israel, and the actual picture of Israel, is the fact that for a fifth year in a row, Israel was named by the UN the...
View ArticleWill media report on investigation’s conclusion that Ibrahim Abu Thuraya was...
Though we may never learn what caused Ibrahim Abu Thuraya’s death on the Gaza border last December, the media's immediate rush to judgement - presuming Israeli guilt whilst ignoring evidence...
View ArticleContrary to media claims, Great Return March is not ‘peaceful’ in practice or...
The only difference between Hamas and Ahmad Abu Artema, the Great Return March chief organiser, is that Hamas is a terror group founded on the idea that Israel has no right to exist, and Abu Artema is...
View ArticleWhy do you hate Israel? The question which no one can answer.
Why do you hate Israel more than any other nation? Why does Israel anger you more than any other nation does? Why do Israel’s military activities aggravate you and disturb your conscience and provoke...
View ArticleEditor’s note on why corrections matter – the perfect is the enemy of the good
The result of our work isn't revolutionary change in their reporting from the region, but significantly improved coverage. In life, as in media monitoring, the perfect is often the enemy of the good.
View ArticleBrendan O’Neill: Why Western liberals bear some responsibility for the...
It is becoming increasingly clear that Hamas pushes Gaza’s people into harm’s way because it knows their suffering will strike a chord across the West. Because it knows images of their hardship will be...
View ArticleUK media outlets ignore allegation that Hamas paid Gaza family to blame...
Most British outlets which covered the death eight-month-old Layla al-Ghandour have failed to publish allegations that Hamas paid the girl's family to tell the media that Israeli tear gas caused her...
View ArticleBritish media pummel Israel with some of the most biased headlines since 2014
These headlines illustrate the failure of journalists and their editors to frame articles in a manner which focuses primarily on Hamas and Islamic Jihad violence and evokes sympathy for Israeli terror...
View ArticleBritish journalist promotes “taboo busting” article literally justifying...
British Jews, according to an op-ed endorsed by Sarah Helm, have too much power in Britain, and are using this power to subvert democracy with a well-coordinated smear campaign alleging that Jeremy...
View ArticleIf Lara Alqasem led a radical-right group, instead of radical-left SJP, would...
If Lara Alqasaem had been in a leadership position with a right-wing extremist group, instead of a pro-Palestinian extremist group, the media wouldn't have batted an eye, and Alqasaem wouldn't...
View ArticleBritish media blame Israel for Gaza’s economic woes. Gazans blame Hamas and...
These counterintuitive findings offer a rare honest glimpse into what Palestinians living under Hamas's despotic rule in Gaza actually believe, providing a "compelling corrective" to an entrenched...
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