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Independent publishes op-ed accusing #Israel of “extra-judicial executions”
The charge that Israeli security forces are nonchalantly killing any Palestinians even “suspected" of a crime is a smear against police and soldiers who are trying to defend against ongoing and...
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Independent asks extremist Ali Abunimah his views on #Trump’s extremist views
Abunimah, for those unaware, Abunimah is an Ivy League educated American 'activist' who rejects the right of the Jewish state to exist within any borders, defended Hamas's summary execution of...
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Reporter for the #Independent embarrases himself on Twitter
Yesterday we posted about an article at The Independent on Donald Trump’s scheduled visit to Israel – Trump to visit controversial Jerusalem site, Israel PM Netanyahu, reports say, Dec. 11. (Trump,...
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Indy cites ‘still valid bizarre Israeli law’…which was actually repealed 13...
The Independent (especially it’s i100 brand) often goes for BuzzFeed-style clickbait headlines, such as this, published on Dec. 11th: Here’s the entire article, which includes, first on the list, a...
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Indy highlights taunting of Palestinian journo by soldiers, yet buries...
A great contrast in priorities was on display at the Independent in editorial decisions involving two articles published yesterday. Last night, they published a full report on an incident in the […]
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UK Media Watch prompts correction to Indy claim about ‘bizarre’ #Israeli law
On Sunday, we posted about the following article at the Independent Number one on their list was a “bizarre” Israeli law: However, as we noted in our post, though this law was […]
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Independent amplifies the smears of EU-funded group ‘Breaking the Silence’
There’s nothing at all surprising about an op-ed published at the Independent by their former Jerusalem correspondent Donald Macintyre – at least for anyone even remotely familiar with his views. In...
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Independent editorializes against Israel’s “EVIL” blockade of Gaza
When British Jews continue to claim in overwhelming numbers that media coverage of Israel incites antisemitism in the UK, they typically refer to hyperbolic and grossly misleading headlines, demonizing...
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Independent suggests Israel is still building settlements…in Gaza (UPDATE)
An article by John Hall in The Independent (Israel to resume building controversial settlements in the West Bank after 18-month moratorium, Jan. 25th) includes the following passage, meant to provide...
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The Independent has no idea why Co-op Bank closed Friends of Al-Aqsa’s account
The Independent evidently has no idea why Co-op Bank closed the account of the “pro-Palestine” NGO Friends of Al-Aqsa. A Jan. 6 Indy report (Co-op Bank shuts down account belonging to Palestinian NGO...
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UK media framing of Israeli ‘gay conversion’ story challenged by the author...
A Feb. 4th Associated Press (AP) story by Daniel Estrin reported that an American Jewish group promoting the discredited practice of “gay conversion therapy” was recently ordered to close by a US...
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The Independent reports on recent terror attack – one sentence; one glaring...
A report today by Will Worley on the latest Palestinian terror attack in Hebron in The Independent (Teenage girl wielding knife shot by Israeli security forces in West Bank, Feb. 14) concluded with...
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Arab buildings vs Israeli lives: An example of selective media outrage
Here’s the sensational headline which accompanied a Feb 17th article at i100 (The Independent’s BuzzFeed–style website) by Bethan McKernan. Shocking, isn’t it?! Well, no, actually. The Feb. 15th...
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Independent revises inaccurate headline on Eisenkot comments
We’ve posted frequently on UK media headlines about the current wave of Palestinian terror that are biased, inaccurate or misleading, and late yesterday The Independent provided yet another example in...
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A few questions the Independent could have asked Roger Waters
What’s the role of a journalist while conducting an interview about a charged political topic? In the UK, it seems that the accuracy clause of the Editors’ Code likely demands that questionable claims […]
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Independent “reveals” Israel’s secret war on Palestinian clowns
CAMERA has a continually updated post on biased and inaccurate headlines accompanying articles on the latest round of Palestinian terror – words which often invert reality, blurring cause and effect or...
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Do the UK media ever tire of erroneously predicting the ‘end of Israeli...
Those who engage in such dark prophecies seem undeterred by the fact that Israel's democracy always seems to survive unscathed from the latest legislative outrage
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The Independent plays a willing part in the Ayatollahs’ Purim spiel
It is an astonishing phenomenon that western journalists leave their critical faculties at the door when they write about the treatment of minorities by autocratic regimes. Independent readers will...
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A quick and fun lesson for Indy editors: the difference between facts and...
The Indy article is a straight news story, not an op-ed, and so it certainly seems that the headline runs afoul of the editors' code requirements. It may be editors' opinion that the Israeli law is...
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Robert Fisk praises extremist who called Zionists “Nazis with beards and...
Here’s what The Independent’s ‘award winning’ Middle East analyst Robert Fisk wrote about Jewish writer Norman Finkelstein in his May 5th op-ed, in the context of praising the putatively...
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