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Failure in Israel's "Twitter war" exposed

Submitted by Ben White on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 10:35
Claims that Israel notched up a propaganda “success” while bombing Gaza in November contain serious contradictions.

Abba Eban's comments on the idiocy of hasbara just as true three decades later

Submitted by Ben White on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 17:49
Israeli politician and diplomat realized no PR campaign could mitigate negative public opinion after Israel’s deadly invasion of Beirut in 1982.

NYT denies reality of Israeli occupation

Submitted by Ben White on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 23:03
An editor in the “journal of record” has defended how the paper apes Israeli references to “disputed territories.”

BBC acknowledges that Palestinian citizens of Israel are not guaranteed equality by law

Submitted by Ben White on Sun, 02/03/2013 - 15:08
In a report last month on Israel’s racist “Judaization” policies in the Negev, BBC reporter Tim Whewell wrote that “Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel are guaranteed full equality by law.” Responding to my complaint, the BBC’s Middle East desk has acknowledged that this is not the case, and “agree the wording of the sentence in question is inaccurate.”

UK Zionist Federation email attacks “Palestinian Moslems”

Submitted by Ben White on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 10:36
A weekly news email by the UK’s Zionist Federation has included an extraordinary attack on “Palestinian Moslems” in a style reminiscent of 19th century colonial racism.

BBC Trust upholds complaint over Nakba Day radio report that downplayed expulsion of Palestinians

Submitted by Ben White on Wed, 01/16/2013 - 16:02
The governing body of BBC agrees that there had been “a lack of clarity as to what Nakba Day commemorates,” and that the language used did not accurately “convey the reality of the departures [of the refugees].”

UK-based Israel lobby group whitewashes war crimes to protect two-state solution

Submitted by Ben White on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 23:21
UK Israel lobby group BICOM ignores illegality of settlements as they try to defend the existence of a Jewish state in a two-state solution framework.

Zionists smear Amnesty over "cocktail" joke

Submitted by Ben White on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 07:23
The Community Security Trust has accused the leading human rights organization of anti-Semitism over a harmless tweet.

Tel Aviv University's role in settler-run archaeological dig "playing into hands of BDS," Israeli academics complain

Submitted by Ben White on Thu, 12/27/2012 - 05:18
Dozens of academics from Israel and abroad, worried about the threat of academic boycott, petition university over participation in archaeological dig in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.

Zionist Federation tribute to UK’s Chief Rabbi to include bomber of Beirut as “special guest”

Submitted by Ben White on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:08
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks will be honored at a Zionist-Federation-organized event Sunday with a “special guest,” the Israeli Air Force Commander who oversaw the devastating attacks on Lebanon and Gaza in 2006.

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