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Two egregious omissions illustrate continued anti-Israel bias at the Independent
Once again, the Indy has shown its propensity - at least regarding their coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - to favor propaganda over anything resembling professional journalism.
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UK Media Watch prompts Indy correction – The Temple Mount is back in Jerusalem
We recently posted about a Sept. 12th article highlighting photos of Muslims celebrating the festival of Eid al-Adha published at Indy100 (a brand of The Independent) which placed the Dome of the Rock,...
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Indy’s Robert Fisk smears Shimon Peres as a man of ‘blood and slaughter’.
The headline of the Sept. 28th piece, "Shimon Peres was no peacemaker. I’ll never forget the sight of pouring blood and burning bodies at Qana", says it all. Don't remember Peres, Fisk is saying, as a...
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After UK Media Watch complaint, Independent furtively corrects false claim.
Once again, we see the lengths British media outlets will go to avoid admitting error.
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UK Media Watch prompts Indy correction to Palestinian ‘news outlet’ Facebook...
The Indy failed to note that the "news organizations" in question (Quds News Network and Shehab News Agency) are both reportedly affiliated with terror groups, and neglected to tell readers that the...
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The Indy, Ben White and charges of Israeli racism towards….Babylonians and...
Beyond the truly risible charge that Israel is guilty of 'perpetuating' racist stereotypes towards ancient communities within extinct empires, the Indy op-ed again demonstrates how Jews' historically...
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Indy blurs victim and perpetrator in bullying of gay, Jewish pro-peace...
As we've argued repeatedly, the Indy - which facies itself a progressive voice whose aim is to 'comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and to 'speaks truth to power' - has demonstrated its...
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Indy falsely charges that Israel ‘destroyed graves’ in Muslim cemetery
What the Indy sold to readers as the wanton destruction by Israeli officials, who "stormed" a historic cemetery to destroy Muslim "graves", can more accurately be characterized as a cynical public...
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UK Media Watch prompts Indy correction to claim Western Wall is Judaism’s...
On Friday, we spotted the following error in an Independent article written by Matt Broomfield titled “Israel: Prayer protesters in violent Western Wall clash with ultra-conservative Orthodox Jews”....
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Indy snapshot of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli grave robbing and...
Indy readers interested in learning about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict are informed that Israel destroys Muslim graves, shoots innocent Palestinian children, breaches Palestinian rights to...
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The Independent misleads with photo illustrating Naftali Bennett’s 2-state...
The goal of journalism is to report the facts and inform the reader. When the Independent chose to mislead with a photo of Netanyahu, they were not engaging in journalism, but were involved in polemic...
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British Media ‘Fake News’ Alert – on “Israeli Apartheid” in Hebron.
By uncritically repeating such toxic canards, and fail to make a serious effort to separate facts from anti-Zionist fiction, the Indy may increasingly be viewed by many within the British Jewish...
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These stats will help put the troubling spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes in...
As the Jerusalem Post noted, the most recent FBI hate crime stats for 2015 showed that a shocking 53.3 percent of the religiously motivated hate crimes (or 664 incidents) were directed at Jews, who...
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Indy snapshot of daily life in Israel: Oppressing women, protecting paedophiles
The Independent continues to lead the British media pack when it comes to story selections designed to paint Israel in the worst possible light. Here's a recent example from the Indy's Israel page of...
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The Independent tries to define Zionism
Even if you are not convinced that the Zionism = Racism canard is not antisemitic in intent, it is undeniably antisemitic in effect, because such a characterization necessarily means that Jews (the...
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Indy op-ed on UK view that ‘Opposing Israel’s existence = antisemitism’...
Criticism of the Jewish state becomes antisemitic when it holds the state to a moral standard no other state is held to, and when it evokes historic antisemitic tropes and narratives - such as the view...
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Indy poll falsely suggests that UK gov’t views mere Israel criticism as...
The wording of the Indy's poll is extremely misleading, as it suggests that the mere criticism of Israel is defined as antisemitic by the WD. However, as the WD adopted by Theresa May makes perfectly...
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Azaria headline round-up: UKMW prompts Guardian correction. Indy improves....
Yesterday, most major UK news outlets were quick to report on the guilty verdict of Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, convicted in a military court for shooting to death a wounded Palestinian attacker,...
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The Israeli occupation, Emily Hilton and the eternal privilege of the...
By turning a complex and vexing political dispute into a binary moral paradigm, reducing the historical and diplomatic complexities of a more than 100 year-long conflict to one territorial dispute, and...
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The Independent repeats ‘fake news’, claiming “50 racist laws” in Israel
CAMERA and other watchdog groups have refuted Adalah’s claims that there are 50 "racist laws" in Israel – a term used so carelessly by the NGO that even an Israeli public health law requiring that...
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