UKMW prompts correction to Indy article on Iranian drone incident which...
In initial reports on Sunday and Monday, following hostilities on Saturday between Israel and Syria, the Iranian drone (which violated Israeli air space and caused the incident) wasn't included in the...
View ArticleContrary to Robert Fisk’s claim, Israel did offer Arafat at least 95 percent...
Contrary to Robert Fisk's claim, Yasser Arafat was offered was a contiguous state encompassing Gaza, east Jerusalem and considerably more than 90 percent of the West Bank. And, it's not the "American...
View ArticleUKMW prompts correction to Indy claim that no Arabs in Jerusalem are citizens
Whilst it's true that MOST of the more than 325,00 Arabs living in the city are permanent residents, thousands are full Israeli citizens. Roughly 7 percent of the city's Arabs (more than 20,000...
View ArticleIndy falsely claims Fatah was founded by Arafat to merely ‘create a...
The claim by the Indy journalist that Fatah as founded to promote the creation of a Palestinian state shouldn't be seen as merely a one-off factual error, but, rather, an example of a larger media...
View ArticleWill media report on investigation’s conclusion that Ibrahim Abu Thuraya was...
Though we may never learn what caused Ibrahim Abu Thuraya’s death on the Gaza border last December, the media's immediate rush to judgement - presuming Israeli guilt whilst ignoring evidence...
View ArticleGuardian and Independent parrot Hamas talking points on “Great Return March”.
The fact that 10 out of the 16 Palestinians killed since Friday have been verified by the IDF as members of terrorist groups, or that the border protests have included the throwing of Molotov...
View ArticleUKMW prompts correction to Indy claim over Arab population from ‘the river to...
Contrary to the Indy's claims, the Knesset hearings made clear that the '6.5 million Arabs' number cited does in fact include those living in east Jerusalem and Gaza - that is, it includes all the...
View ArticleUKMW prompts important addendum to Indy article on IDF ‘whooping’ video
UK Media Watch prompts a correction at The Independent to a report on a video depicting the IDF shooting a Palestinian man on the Gaza border. The original Indy report failed to include the official...
View ArticleIndy evokes Syrian use of chemical weapons in accusing Israel of “gassing” a...
There hasn't been a shortage of inflammatory, misleading and inaccurate media claims during coverage of recent Gaza riots, but the insinuation of Israeli malevolence in this Indy editorial is among the...
View ArticleIndy falsely claims Israeli soldiers “were ordered to use live fire” on...
This is but one extraordinarily misleading sentence within the cacophony of sensational, biased and misleading headlines, photos and articles published in the British media since late March. Yet, it...
View ArticleTweets by British journalist Sarah Helm demonstrate her pro-Palestinian advocacy
We surveyed hundreds of tweets, spanning three years, by British journalist Sarah Helm and uncovered what we suspected all along: Helm is a pro-Palestinian activist. Not a journalist.
View ArticleIndy characterises threats made to Lionel Messi as merely ‘Israeli claims’
What the Independent sold to readers as a victory for BDS was, in actuality, a 'victory' for threats, thuggery and intimidation.
View ArticleUKMW prompts Indy to correct Robert Fisk’s claim on Nazi-confiscated Jewish...
Contrary to Robert Fisk's claim, Polish Jews do not have a "right" to “take back Nazi-confiscated property.” Following communication with UK Media Watch, editors at The Independent upheld our complaint...
View ArticleUKMW prompts correction to Indy story blaming Ultra-Orthodox for lengthy El...
The Indy corrected their article after we cited an official statement from EL Al which maintained that the flight delay had nothing to do with the incident involving the Ultra-Orthodox passengers...
View ArticleIndy publishes op-ed opposing antisemitism definition by leader of group that...
It's disappointing that Indy editors chose to legitimise duplicitous rhetoric which has the effect of providing cover to those radical voices on the British and American left who claim to be...
View ArticleIndy backgrounder on ‘Gaza-Israel conflict’ riddled with distortions
The "both sides blame each other" phrasing used by the Indy Middle East correspondent is one in a long list of tropes and cliches employed by journalists to avoid reaching the morally intuitive...
View ArticleIndy promotes Noam Chomsky’s charge on “Israeli intervention in US elections”
The decision by the Indy editor to promote Noam Chomsky's charge on Israel's putative influence on the US political system, without informing readers of the academic's record of unhinged commentary on...
View ArticleFor 2nd time in 3 weeks, Times of London, Telegraph and Indy ignore deadly...
The journalistic axiom 'if it bleeds it leads' isn't entirely true when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where selective concern for the suffering of one side is the norm - indicative of a...
View ArticleIndy 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...
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