“The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely the English, the Jews, and the Communists.” – Haj Amin al-Husseini In contextualizing UK media coverage […]
Keeping two ideas in our head at the same time: 1) Bibi was wrong. 2) The mufti supported genocide
What Harriet Sherwood didn’t tell you in her report on JK Rowling’s anti-BDS letter
The Guardian’s former Jerusalem correspondent Harriet Sherwood penned an article (Star authors call for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue rather than boycotts, Oct. 22) about an anti-BDS letter in the Guardian published the previous day […]
UK Media Watch prompts Indy correction to 2nd Intifada claim
As we pointed out in our communication with Indy editors, the Temple Mount is not “officially in Palestinian territory”. Rather, it’s under the administrative control of the Jordanian Islamic Waqf, and under Israeli security control. Jews are allowed to visit but not pray there.
UK Media Watch prompts correction to Times of London claim about “settlers”
We demonstrated in our post that Arab terrorists have in fact been targeting Jews, not ‘merely’ “settlers’. After complaining to Times of London editors, they agreed to issue the following correction.
Netanyahu – Mufti Kerfuffle: Ask Yourself Why Doves are Enraged
So if you think that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah are not disciples of the mufti’s values then you need to be offended by Netanyahu’s efforts to link the Nazis to the Palestinian cause. Of course, you also need to keep your eyes tightly closed.
Guardian piles on Bibi historical distortion – omits Erekat lie that Palestinians fought Nazis
A Guardian article (Netanyahu under fire for Palestinian grand mufti Hitler claim, Oct. 21) by their Jerusalem correspondent Peter Beaumont reports on the row involving a claim made by Israel’s prime minister […]
Daily Mail corrects headline claiming terror victim died after ‘attacking Palestinian’s truck’
An Israeli civilian, 54-year-old Avraham Hasano, was killed yesterday after he was hit by a truck near Hebron after inspecting the damage to his vehicle caused by rocks thrown by Palestinians. The […]
Guardian editor who supports Hamas terror becomes Corbyn’s communications chief
Guardian associate editor Seumas Milne has been appointed director of communications for Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Telegraph reported earlier tonight. Milne, Corbyn and the Labour Party subsequently confirmed the news. In addition […]
Independent grossly misleads on the roots of First, Second and “Third” Intifadas
On Oct. 9, The Independent published a report by Lee Williams (titled ‘Intifada: What is it – and what does a third uprising mean for the region’) which grossly misleads on both the […]
Times of London claims that Arab terrorists are only targeting “settlers”.
Here’s the large photo spread across pages 30-31 in the Oct. 20th print edition of Times of London – accompanying an article by Gregg Carlstrom on the recent Arab violence. The caption reads: […]
Why did the Guardian bury story on Abbas’s lie about “executed” Palestinian boy?
The contrast in coverage between the false claims by Netanyahu and Abbas is that the Israeli leader’s blue jean comment had no real impact on the lives of Iranians, whilst the PA President’s false claim about an Israeli “execution” of an “innocent” boy served to further inflame Arabs and Palestinians amidst a wave of deadly terror attacks on Jews fueled by this very kind of incitement.
Arabs attacking Jews: Over 100 years of excuses
Cross posted from the blog of David Collier During the height of the second Intifada, the media and politicians in general were adamant, only total desperation could cause one human being to […]
Another British headline suggesting that Palestinian stabbers are the victims
Earlier today, CAMERA’s Tamar Sternthal commented on a misleading headline at USA Today. The headline, “Israelis kill 4 Palestinians as violence surges,” noted Sternthal, failed to “clearly report that the four Palestinians were killed […]
Sky News fails to challenge lie that Israel plans to destroy al-Aqsa Mosque
Yesterday in London, there was another hateful anti-Israel demo outside the Israel embassy. Sky News had a segment on both the demo and the broader issue concerning recent Arab terror attacks in Israel. […]
British media headline fails during recent Arab terror wave
On Oct. 15th, The Jewish Chronicle published an op-ed by UK Media Watch Managing Editor Adam Levick focusing on biased and misleading headlines in the British media during the recent wave of Arab […]
Evidently, the Guardian journo didn’t see the video of the Palestinian teen stabbers
Today, The Guardian published a report by Kate Shuttleworth (Stabbed Israeli man mistaken for Arab lashes out at escalating violence, Oct. 15) about several Israeli revenge attacks against Arabs amidst the recent wave of […]
Israel supporters and Israel haters square off in London
Cross posted from Richard Millett’s blog Yesterday afternoon about 40 Israel supporters heeded the call of the Zionist Federation and the Board of Deputies to protest the incitement by the Palestinian leaders […]
UK Media Watch prompts Telegraph and Times of London revisions over Temple Mount
Yesterday we posted about serious omissions by both the Times of London and The Telegraph regarding the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Both news sites, in articles about the ongoing Palestinian violence, noted […]
Facebook posts of The Telegraph’s Jerusalem correspondent demonstrate extreme bias
h/t Shimon UK Media Watch has reviewed a series Facebook status updates by The Telegraph’s Middle East correspondent Robert Tait which reveal a radical worldview more in line with the agitprop of Electronic Intifada bloggers […]
Times of London and Telegraph mislead in explanation of root cause of latest Arab violence
Two articles in the British media about the recent wave of Arab terror include background information on the Temple Mount, the contested Jerusalem site both reports claim represents one of the root causes […]
Independent’s revised headline on Israeli response to Gaza rocket attack still misleads
Yesterday (Oct. 11), we documented the latest example of the Independent framing a report on the ongoing wave of terror in a manner which imputes maximum malevolence to Israel. The Indy story, by Caroline […]
Guardian celebrates Marwan Barghouti, and obfuscates his support for ‘armed resistance’
Marwan Barghouti is a murderer currently serving five consecutive life terms (plus 40 years) in an Israeli prison for his 2004 conviction on multiple charges relating to the killing of five civilians during the Second […]
Another Indy headline fail – British paper claims Israeli ‘revenge’ on family in Gaza
For the third time in three days, the Independent has framed a report on the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror in a manner which imputes maximum malevolence to the Jewish state. The […]
Independent again obfuscates Arab terror in headline on attack in Afula
Yesterday, we posted about a comically misleading headline and opening passage to an article in the Independent about a Palestinian stabbing attack on two elderly Jewish men in Jerusalem on Saturday. Additionally, […]
The Guardian has no idea what the Arab stabber was holding in her hand
Evidently, the fact that several Israeli soldiers and security guards were standing in close proximity to the woman, while shouting at her to drop the “knife” (which she used moments earlier in an attempt to stab a security guard), didn’t convince Guardian editors that she was in fact brandishing a knife!
Independent’s anti-Israel bias shines through in comically misleading headline
Two elderly Jewish men were victims of a stabbing attack on Saturday in Jerusalem. The perpetrator of the attack, a 16-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by police shortly after the stabbing. […]
After terror spree against Jews, Guardian highlights Palestinian victim
One particular headline caught our eye yesterday because it was so clear, accurate and honest – not words typically associated with UK media reports on Israel. Here’s the headline, in a Telegraph/AFP […]
Guardian’s verdict on terror wave in Israel: Palestinians are not responsible
Wednesday saw multiple terror attacks throughout Israel, a wave of Palestinian violence which included scores of rock throwing incidents, dozens of firebomb attacks, several stabbings, a near lynching and one attempted run over […]
Former Guardian contributor tells Jewish journo that Palestinians should “cut his throat”.
Richard Seymour, a Guardian contributor through 2014 (seen here running interference for Hamas) and radical blogger for the uber-left site Lenin’s Tomb, had this to say on Facebook about Josh Hasten, an Israeli journalist who recently […]
BDS is failing: a continuing series (Oct. 2015)
Here’s the latest installment in our monthly series of posts detailing BDS fails. Economic BDS Fails Israeli investment to create 100 Newport and Cardiff jobs “Israeli companies have announced an investment that will create about 100 […]
Times of London ‘covers’ Palestinian terror attack by highlighting the Israeli response
Two Israelis were killed and two others wounded (including a 2 year old baby) in a Palestinian stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday night. One of those injured, Adele Banita, whose […]
Guardian gives more credibility to Palestinian hoax than the Palestinians themselves
Amidst recent Palestinian violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank which has claimed the lives of four Israeli civilians over the course of three days, another story has been making the rounds […]
Financial Times erases the Temple Mount from Jerusalem
In 2014, the PLO issued a memo to journalists “advising” them not to use the term “Temple Mount” when referring to the area within Jerusalem’s Old City which houses Judaism’s holiest site […]
UK media ignore the role of incitement in terror attack that killed Alexander Levlovich
Alexander Levlovich, 64, was returning home from a Rosh Hashana dinner when his car was struck by rocks thrown by four Palestinian teens on Asher Viner Street, the road separating the Jewish […]
Max Blumenthal tells lies about #Israel – a continuing series
Published by Gilead Ini at CAMERA Q: What would happen if someone with an ugly history of spreading falsehoods and fabricated quotes is invited onto an NPR-affiliated, Chicago-based public radio program? A: […]
Did Bashar al-Assad prompt a Guardian correction? Editors award Golan to Syria
A September 24th edition of the Guardian ‘Corrections and Clarifications’ included the following entry: An article about a meeting between Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, […]
What you won’t read at the Guardian about the exploitation of the Tamimi children
Guest post by Petra Marquardt-Bigman While working on two articles documenting the questionable methods and associations of the Tamimis of Nabi Saleh – who for years have been organizing almost weekly confrontations with […]
How many firebomb attacks on a Jewish home does it take for the UK media to notice?
How many firebomb attacks on a Jewish home in Jerusalem does it take for the UK media to take notice? How about 15? Indeed, that’s the number of times three families living […]
You do not confront antisemitism by waving a white flag
Cross posted from the blog of David Collier Imagine if you can, a marketplace of ideas in a small city somewhere on the coast in South West England. The owners of this […]
Why has the brutal beating of two Palestinian teens been ignored by the UK media?
A short video, filmed during clashes on Friday in Bethlehem, which shows PA security forces brutally beating Mahmoud Hamamra, 16, and his brother Ahmad Hamamra, 18, has gone viral within the Palestinian social […]
Telegraph report questioning antisemitic incident in Paris continues to unravel
We posted recently about a shameful article in The Telegraph which attempted to undermine multiple undisputed accounts of an antisemitic attack in France last summer. We noted that media outlets across the board agreed […]
Independent uncritically cites “report” by Iranian PressTV
The Independent’s coverage of recent Palestinian violence at the Temple Mount and throughout Jerusalem included a curious article published on Sept. 13th by Indy reporter named Samuel Osborne. The article, which focused on violence […]
Contrary to UK media claims, there are NO Israeli restrictions on stethoscopes entering Gaza
A recent report in The Independent on a Canadian doctor of Palestinian descent who is developing a new easy-to-manufacture inexpensive stethoscope for Gaza hospitals contextualizes the story thusly: The first few passages set […]
Shana Tova – Happy New Year!
UK Media Watch would like to wish all of our friends and supporters a sweet, happy and prosperous new year. Shana Tova!
UK Media Watch prompts correction to Indy claim on Syrian refugees
An article which appeared in The Independent recently (Benjamin Netanyahu rejects calls for Israel to take in more refugees – and pledges to build 18-mile border fence instead, Sept. 7th) included the following […]
UK Media Watch prompts Guardian correction to false claim about US and #Israel
In a post yesterday (The Guardian’s Chris McGreal gets it wrong on Israel…again, Sept. 10th) we demonstrated that a claim concerning the US and Israel by the paper’s former Jerusalem correspondent was […]
Someone told Donald Macintyre that Jewish donors control UK foreign policy…so it MUST be true
Here’s how Donald Macintyre, veteran journalist for The Independent (and the paper’s former Jerusalem correspondent), explains the putative change in David Cameron’s foreign policy since taking office, which critics of the prime minister […]
The Guardian’s ‘I Hate Israel’ Rubber Stamp Brigade
A guest post by AKUS Every month or two, a letter condemning Israel is published in the Guardian carrying multiple signatures. These typically include quite a few radical left figures with little […]
When criticism of Israel crosses the line to extreme antisemitism: London edition
Cross posted from the blog of David Collier It is Sept. 9th, 2015. In the Middle East, millions are oppressed by their own leaders, hundreds of thousands of people have been […]
The Guardian praises UNRWA as “best of the UN”.
In what arguably represents one of the defining examples of their alternate reality when analyzing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the Guardian has been running a series of posts highlighting the 70th anniversary of the […]
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