Indy ignores deadly Palestinian terror, but rushes to pronounce settlers...
The Independent was one of three British media outlets that failed to cover two recent Palestinian terror attacks that claimed the lives of three Israelis, but was quick to publish a story about a...
View ArticleUKMW prompts correction at Indy on ‘settler attack’, and at the Telegraph on...
UK Media Watch prompted two corrections recently. At the Indy, we convinced editors to revise a sentence which misleadingly framed an accusation that settlers killed a Palestinian woman as if it were a...
View ArticleFor 5th time in a year, UKMW prompts media correction to ‘settler-only roads’...
For the 5th time in less than a year, UK Media Watch has prompted a correction in the British media to the false claim that there are "settler-only roads" in the West Bank. The latest such claim was...
View ArticleSarah Helm at the Independent: 3700 words of Hamas-friendly propaganda
Sarah Helm is not a journalist. She’s more akin to a pro-Palestinian activist whose visceral contempt for Israel at times bleeds off the page, and has included tweets expressing support for Hamas...
View ArticleIndy Mid-East reporter’s tweet exposes profound misunderstanding of the conflict
Regardless of whether Netanyahu's comparison between Hamas and ISIS is accurate, the point is that Hamas - like other Islamist extremist movements - can not be placated in the long-term by Western...
View ArticleIndy’s Sarah Helm: Israel cons the world into believing their anti-Hamas...
Helm concludes by expressing exasperation at the most "disturbing" part of all of this - how the "outside world has always been to buy into [Israeli] version of events", showing that Helm inhabits a...
View ArticleGuardian and Indy articles on Marc Lamont Hill’s firing omit his call for...
Marc Lamont Hill is not merely a pro-Palestinian 'activist' who criticises Israel and calls for a 'free Palestine'. He's a radical anti-Israel propagandist who's repeatedly justified Palestinian...
View ArticleIndy editors correct one of Sarah Helm’s false claims about recent Hamas...
On Nov. 14th we posted about a piece at The Independent by Sarah Helm, who, as we’ve noted, is one of the more biased reporters we’ve come across in years. Within Helm’s […]
View ArticleIndy cites US politician comparing treatment of Palestinians with Jim Crow...
Tlaib's evocation of race and Jim Crow into the Israeli-Palestinian debate is clearly not motivated by the desire to build bridges, promote social justice or achieve a lasting peace, but, rather,...
View ArticleRobert Fisk promotes libel that Israel deliberately kills Palestinian...
Fisk falsely suggests that Israel intentionally murders Palestinian journalists to prevent them from reporting the truth about Gaza. In fact, the IDF operates with the knowledge that Palestinian...
View ArticleUKMW prompts Indy correction to Israeli ‘occupation of Lebanon’ claim
On Dec. 6, we tweeted a journalist at The Independent about a story which falsely suggested that Israel occupied all of Lebanon from the early 80s to 2000.
View ArticleNo, a Texas woman did NOT lose her job for refusing to sign “pro-Israel pledge”
Here’s the headline of a Dec. 18th article at The Independent: The claim that a Texas woman was forced to sign a “pro-Israel pledge” is repeated in the opening paragraph of the […]
View ArticleDespite media narrative, Palestinians are far from ‘woke’
Palestinians, it seems, are not quite the peace and social justice warriors of media lore. They are arguably 'far-right', and certainly far from 'woke'.
View ArticleUKMW prompts Indy to correct false claim that UN said ‘Israel practices...
A Dec. 20th op-ed at the Independent by Palestinian activist Abdallah Abu Rahmah included the erroneous claim that a UN report found Israel guilty of apartheid.
View ArticleIndependent mocks Israel for ‘culturally appropriating’ Shawarma
We've seen a lot of misleading and false charges against Israel in the British media over the years, but an article on Friday at the Independent promotes what's truly one of the more bizarre...
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