Syria appeal highlights BBC hypocrisy on Gaza
20 March 2013
The BBC prepares to air a DEC appeal for Syria, four years after refusing to show a similar appeal for Gaza
Media Watch
NYT denies reality of Israeli occupation
8 February 2013
An editor in the “journal of record” has defended how the paper apes Israeli references to “disputed territories.”
New York Times' Jodi Rudoren ignores apartheid election being held in occupied West Bank today
22 January 2013
In other circumstances this might be called “apartheid” or “Jim Crow.”
Subscription offer from liberal Israeli newspaper helps JNF, a "charity" implicated in ethnic cleansing
16 January 2013
Give your money to the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz and you may be indirectly helping to expel Palestinians.
BBC Trust upholds complaint over Nakba Day radio report that downplayed expulsion of Palestinians
16 January 2013
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].”
The screenshots prove it: New York Times altered headline to remove words “Israeli-occupied”
12 January 2013
A New York Times headline accidentally told the truth, before it was “corrected” to remove the words Israeli-occupied.
Pro-Israel blogger attacks Canada First Nation chief, but Palestinians express solidarity with Idle No More
9 January 2013
Liberal website The Huffington Post last week published an attack on an indigenous rights activist who is on hunger strike in Canada, labeling her “the hungry chief mugging for the cameras on an island in the Ottawa River.” Writing on the Canadian edition of the site, anti-Palestinian blogger Yoni Goldstein openly attacked Theresa Spence as a “problem” responsible for indigenous people’s woes in Canada and said he had “no sympathy” for her.
Bombing Gaza “into a parking lot” a “natural” thought for Israel backers, says Forward’s Jay Michaelson
4 January 2013
Can you imagine the reaction if any prominent advocate for Palestinian human rights said that it was “natural” to “entertain a thought of turning Tel Aviv into a parking lot”?
Propaganda or news? Associated Press names Jerusalem an “Israeli” city
4 January 2013
No country in the world, including the United States, formally recognizes Jerusalem as part of “Israel.”
AP tries to put “wipe Israel off the map” into Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal’s mouth
11 December 2012
Double standards mean that media will never talk about Palestine being “wiped off the map” even when its true.