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UK media absurd political analogy watch: The Berlin Wall & Israel’s Security...
Ben Zygier (known as Prisoner X) was the Australian-Israeli Mossad agent imprisoned at Ayalon Prison in Ramla on espionage charges who committed suicide in his cell in 2010. The 2013 row over...
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CiF Watch prompts correction to Indy claim that Western Wall is Judaism’s...
Yesterday we posted about an article in the Independent representing the latest example of a mainstream news site erroneously claiming that the Western Wall in Jerusalem is Judaism’s holiest site. We...
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“Don’t you hate it when Santa gets dragged into politics?”
Our headline was taken from this Dec. 23rd article at i100 (The Independent’s BuzzFeed-style website) by the site’s news editor Matthew Champion. Whilst you can read the brief article (ranked 3rd...
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Independent flubs key passage in story about Natalie Portman & the Sony...
The Independent published a story on December 24th, by their Deputy People Editor Ella Alexander, about the ongoing Sony hacking scandal. Here’s the headline, photo and strapline. So far so good. As...
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Another media outlet misidentifies Judaism’s holiest site
Cross posted from CAMERA’s blog Snapshots. The Independent is the latest media outlet to correct the false claim the Western Wall is Judaism’s holiest site. It follows earlier corrections at The...
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Independent’s list of most read articles in 2014 features anti-Jewish columnist
In studying and posting about UK media coverage of the summer war between Israel and Hamas, we concluded that the Independent arguably surpassed the Guardian in the level of malice and vitriol directed...
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Another British journalist evidently believes that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital
We don’t know much about UK-based journalist Jon Stone, other than the fact he used to work for BuzzFeed and now contributes to publications such as the Independent, where he published a story on Dec....
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CiF Watch prompts correction to Indy claim that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital
Last week, we posted about an article at The Independent reporting on a recent Delta flight from New York to Tel Aviv which was delayed after some ultra-Orthodox Jewish passengers refused to sit next...
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Poll: 82% of UK Jews believe media bias against Israel fuels antisemitism in...
The Campaign Against Antisemitism just released a report based on two new YouGov polls measuring both antisemitic sentiment amongst the British public, and its effect on British Jewry. Here are the...
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Another journo accuses British Jews who fear antisemitism of being ‘ungrateful’
Yesterday, we posted about a Guardian op-ed by David Conn on Jan. 20th which accused British Jews who, in his view, express unwarranted alarm about the threat of antisemitism in the UK of being...
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CiF Watch prompts Indy correction to erroneous ‘Gaza Holocaust’ passage
As we noted previously, The Independent published a story on December 24th about the ongoing Sony hacking scandal by the newspaper’s Deputy People Editor, Ella Alexander. However, in attempting to...
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Independent revises passage which got Netanyahu’s political party wrong
Jon Stone’s Feb. 7th article, ‘Barack Obama’s party lines up to snub Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on visit’, in The Independent included these passages: The prime minister is of course the...
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CiF Watch prompts Indy correction to claim about Muslim prayer at the Mount
In addition to the bizarre suggestion by Ben Lynfield at The Independent that recent violence in Jerusalem can be attributed to Israeli restrictions on Muslim “access to al-Aqsa Mosque”, his Nov. 6th […]
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UK Media Watch prompts correction at The Independent over wild Gaza...
An op-ed by Yawa Hawari published in The Independent on March 17th included quite a few wild claims about Israel and Gaza reconstruction, including this: We have never even come across any similar...
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Independent tries to ‘balance’ report blaming Hamas for July 28 attack on...
A rocket attack that killed 11 Gazan children and hit a hospital during the summer war was the work of Palestinian terrorists, not an IDF strike, according to a report by Amnesty […]
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Independent repeats false charge that Mossad contradicted Bibi on Iran nukes
Early in March we posted about an extremely misleading Guardian editorial charging that Binyamin Netanyahu’s claim regarding Iran’s progress towards producing a nuclear bomb was contradicted by the...
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Robert Fisk misrepresents Stephen Harper’s views on antisemitism (Part 1)
One of the most frequently heard complaints by pro-Palestinian activists (and journalists sympathetic to the Palestinian cause) is that Zionists cynically accuse them of antisemitism for merely...
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Robert Fisk misrepresents Stephen Harper’s views on antisemitism (Part 2)
In our previous post, we refuted Robert Fisk’s claim, in his latest column at The Independent, that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper argued that mere criticism of Israel can be a form […]
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Bon Jovi to perform in Israel: #BDSFail #BritishMediaFail
Last year we commented on a story in The Independent written by their Jerusalem correspondent Alistair Dawber on the cancellation of a previously scheduled performance in Israel by Eric Burdon...
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British media continues to obfuscate Jeremy Corbyn’s sympathy for violent...
We recently commented on a June 15th Guardian report which benignly characterized Jeremy Corbyn MP (who’s competing for Labour Party leadership) as a “leftwinger” despite his well-documented record of...
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