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The Independent obfuscates overwhelming Israeli support for Operation...
A July 7th article by The Independent’s Ben Lynfield (Gaza, a year on from Operation Protective Edge: The traumatised kibbutz on Israel’s front line, still recovering from last summer’s war with Hamas)...
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Investigating Indy claim that 511 Gazans died ‘after their ambulances were...
Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah is the Chief of Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at American University of Beirut Medical Centre. He’s also an anti-Israel activist. Abu Sittah recently wrote an...
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UK Media Watch prompts two corrections at The Independent
A July 3rd article in The Independent, written by Sam Masters, mischaracterized the conclusions of a UNHRC report on the Gaza war. Here’s the relevant sentence: A recent UN report into last year’s […]
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A question for the Independent’s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown about Carlos Latuff’s...
Posted by Richard Millett The Independent’s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown doesn’t check facts. In 2012 she defended British politician Jenny Tonge. Baroness Tonge had declared in a talk to students that “Israel...
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The Independent apologises for Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s “mortifying blunder”.
Posted by Richard Millett The Independent has apologised for mistakes in Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s article Fling mud if you must, but don’t call Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite in last week’s Independent...
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Indy op-ed on Israel weaves in lethal narrative about the ‘deliberate burning...
Ruby Stockham, a staff writer at the blog Left Foot Forward, penned an op-ed for The Independent commenting on the Israeli prime minister’s upcoming visit to the UK (‘The two questions that David...
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Someone told Donald Macintyre that Jewish donors control UK foreign policy…so...
Here’s how Donald Macintyre, veteran journalist for The Independent (and the paper’s former Jerusalem correspondent), explains the putative change in David Cameron’s foreign policy since taking office,...
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UK Media Watch prompts correction to Indy claim on Syrian refugees
An article which appeared in The Independent recently (Benjamin Netanyahu rejects calls for Israel to take in more refugees – and pledges to build 18-mile border fence instead, Sept. 7th) included the...
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Contrary to UK media claims, there are NO Israeli restrictions on...
A recent report in The Independent on a Canadian doctor of Palestinian descent who is developing a new easy-to-manufacture inexpensive stethoscope for Gaza hospitals contextualizes the story thusly:...
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Independent uncritically cites “report” by Iranian PressTV
The Independent’s coverage of recent Palestinian violence at the Temple Mount and throughout Jerusalem included a curious article published on Sept. 13th by Indy reporter named Samuel Osborne. The...
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UK media ignore the role of incitement in terror attack that killed Alexander...
Alexander Levlovich, 64, was returning home from a Rosh Hashana dinner when his car was struck by rocks thrown by four Palestinian teens on Asher Viner Street, the road separating the Jewish […]
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Independent’s anti-Israel bias shines through in comically misleading headline
Two elderly Jewish men were victims of a stabbing attack on Saturday in Jerusalem. The perpetrator of the attack, a 16-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by police shortly...
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Independent again obfuscates Arab terror in headline on attack in Afula
Yesterday, we posted about a comically misleading headline and opening passage to an article in the Independent about a Palestinian stabbing attack on two elderly Jewish men in Jerusalem on Saturday....
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Another Indy headline fail – British paper claims Israeli ‘revenge’ on family...
For the third time in three days, the Independent has framed a report on the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror in a manner which imputes maximum malevolence to the Jewish state. The […]
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Independent’s revised headline on Israeli response to Gaza rocket attack...
Yesterday (Oct. 11), we documented the latest example of the Independent framing a report on the ongoing wave of terror in a manner which imputes maximum malevolence to Israel. The Indy story, by...
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Independent grossly misleads on the roots of First, Second and “Third” Intifadas
On Oct. 9, The Independent published a report by Lee Williams (titled ‘Intifada: What is it – and what does a third uprising mean for the region’) which grossly misleads on both the […]
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UK Media Watch prompts Indy correction to 2nd Intifada claim
As we pointed out in our communication with Indy editors, the Temple Mount is not "officially in Palestinian territory". Rather, it's under the administrative control of the Jordanian Islamic Waqf, and...
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Keeping two ideas in our head at the same time: 1) Bibi was wrong. 2) The...
“The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely the English, the Jews, and the Communists.” – Haj Amin al-Husseini (1941) In contextualizing UK media...
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Israel’s systemic discrimination against knife-wielding attackers revealed
Despite the ubiquity of smart phones, it’s still not every day that a Palestinian terrorist attack is clearly captured on video. This may explain why a clip of a Palestinian woman stabbing […]
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CST report slams Indy columnist Mira Bar-Hillel’s ‘abusive antisemitism denial’
Mira Bar-Hillel is a journalist for the London Evening Standard (on property and land issues) who’s been a frequent contributor at The Independent on issues pertaining to British Jewry and antisemitism...
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