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It All Started When Israel Fired Back… Again!
Haven’t we been here before? Palestinian terrorists launch or attempt to launch rockets from Gaza on to Israeli towns and cities and Israel responds. So who is ultimately responsible? And which side is...
View ArticleMedia Psychology 101 – Framing Israel: Is Fair Coverage Possible?
Over the years, HonestReporting has analyzed and critiqued hundreds of articles, editorials and opinion pieces. But what goes through the minds of the journalists and writers that influence them to...
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2011 Dishonest Reporting Awards
It has been a year of big stories – Gilad Shalit, the Israel-Turkey meltdown, and the Palestinian statehood bid – all taking place against the backdrop of the Arab Spring and Iran’s atomic urgency. We...
View ArticleMedia Psychology 101 – What’s Wrong With This Metaphor? Israel and the Cycle...
Over the years, HonestReporting has analyzed and critiqued hundreds of articles, editorials and opinion pieces. But what goes through the minds of the journalists and writers that influence them to...
View ArticleThe BBC In Its Own Words: “We Made a Mistake”
In March 2011, the BBC’s coverage or, rather, lack of coverage of the brutal murders of the Fogel family generated outrage as well as shock and grief that an Israeli family, including a three-month old...
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Rachel Corrie and the “Cycle of Violence”
The verdict from an Israeli judge that Rachel Corrie’s death was an accident has set off a predictable whirlwind of media coverage. Reading The Guardian’s report, this section stands out: At the time...
View ArticleRockets Fall But Where’s the Coverage?
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” This philosophical question could well be applied to the media’s treatment, or lack of, concerning the latest...
View ArticleLA Times: Palestinians Fire First, Israel Breaks Ceasefire
This LA Times headline is a sneak preview of more misleading reporting of Palestinian terrorism: Israeli forces attack Gaza in new round of cross-border violence The headline deliberately portrays...
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It’s Just “Tit-For-Tat” For the Financial Times
While its actual article doesn’t employ such terminology, the Financial Times’ subhead on its Middle East news page raises some eyebrows: “Tit-for-tat” expresses a false moral equivalence between...
View ArticleAn Apologist for Hamas in the Telegraph
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, director of the Council for Advancing Arab-British Relations, Chris Doyle engages in the well-worn ploy of describing recent events in Israel as part of a “cycle of...
View ArticleChristian Science Monitor: Israel in a “Cycle of Revenge Killings”
The Christian Science Monitor’s editorial on Israel’s response to the murder of three teens reads as sympathetic at first glance. Indeed there is understanding shown towards the national grief and...
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Three Murdered Teens: Irish Times’“Cycle of Violence”
According to this headline for an Irish Times editorial, a “cycle of violence” has started following the murders of three Israeli teens by Hamas terrorists: There is no “cycle of violence.” As...
View ArticleBBC Bias in Gaza
The BBC’s Yolande Knell is reporting from Gaza. But she isn’t reporting everything. She begins by referring to an incident involving Palestinian casualties: Seven Palestinian civilians including...
View ArticleWhy We Are Not in a Cycle of Violence
An emerging narrative about the current outbreak of Palestinian violence – which now includes a massacre of Jewish worshipers in a Jerusalem synagogue – is that it’s all part of a “cycle of violence.”...
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10-Year-Old Palestinians Vow to “Fight Till the End”
Today’s Top Stories 1. YNet: Palestinian youths, some as young as nine, rioted in eastern Jerusalem after Israel demolished the home of Abdel-Rahman Shaloudi, who plowed his car into a Jerusalem light...
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Palestinian Terror Wave Prompts Media Bias Wave
UPDATES The LA Times headline (see below) has now been updated and reads: “6 Palestinians dead as violence grips Gaza, Jerusalem.” It’s still highly problematic but The Independent has changed its...
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The Language of Bias: 5 Terms Abused By Journalists In Israel
The language of bias is made up of words. And at their most elemental level, a word is nothing more than “a single unit of language that means something and can be spoken or written.” If you choose...
View ArticleCNN, ABC, AP, Vice Dredge Up ‘Cycle of Violence’ Myth
Israel’s attempt to stem the recent terrorist tide and restore safety for the country’s citizens is being depicted by media as being part of a ‘cycle of violence.’ Although framing Palestinian attacks...
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