24 May 2002
The phrase “rubber bullets” was used to describe rubber-coated metal bullets, heavy steel projectiles with a thin coating of rubber, that are regularly used to lethal effect alongside — not instead of — live ammunition. Read more about Misleading terminology: "Rubber" bullets
11 April 2001
Israel has long been trying to get journalists to normalise their annexation of East Jerusalem and occupation of Palestinian land. Semantics is one of the battlegrounds. Read more about Gilo settlement described as a "community", "neigbourhood", or a "suburb of Jerusalem"
12 April 2001
Most media still present events in Palestine in the context of an ongoing, struggling, or dying “Peace Process” a phrase that since the signing of the Oslo accords has all but replaced pre-Oslo references to Israel’s military occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank (including East Jerusalem). Read more about The "Peace Process" vs. the Military Occupation
18 April 2001
A common formulation in reporting on the conflict holds that even the most severe Israeli attacks are acts of “retaliation”, regardless of what preceded the events. Read more about Palestinians "attack", Israel "retaliates"
26 July 2001
Although the use of the adjective ‘vigilante’ is unlikely to be intended by any journalist to imply that killing three Palestinians — including a baby — on their way to a wedding party is an act of ‘justice’, their inappropriate use of this word does make it obvious that many journalists shy away from applying the adjective ‘terrorist’ to Jews or ‘Israelis’ but do not apply the same restraint when writing about Palestinians. Read more about Palestinian "terrorists", Jewish "vigilantes"
10 January 2002
This is not a new coverage trend, but rather has been a persistent pattern, both with respect to Israel’s violence against Palestinians and during Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon. Read more about A non-existent "lull", "quiet", or "calm" -- the blatant semantic clues of journalists admitting they fail to consider Israeli violence against Palestinians noteworthy
8 April 2001
In fact, the city of Jerusalem and Israel itself have been closed to 99 percent of the 3 million Palestinians since March 1993. Read more about The 'new' closure of Jerusalem
12 April 2001
The notion that Palestinian parents send their children to die is yet the latest reincarnation of a well-known scapegoating strategy known as ‘blaming the victim.’ Read more about Palestinian parents blamed for their children's deaths during street clashes
4 April 2001
Much of the media portrays the current conflict between the Palestinians and the Israeli occupying army as an encounter or contest between equals, ignoring the massive imbalance of military, economic, political and diplomatic power between the Palestinian and Israeli sides. Read more about The 'conflict between equals'
20 March 2002
Many unwitting journalists and politicians continue to reproduce the baseless Israeli claim that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was “generous” in an “unprecedented” way in the offer he made to the Palestinians at Camp David. Read more about Misrepresentation of Barak's offer at Camp David as "generous" and "unprecedented"