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Guardian distorts Obama’s remarks on settlements at Ramallah news conference
A March 22 edition of the Guardian’s ongoing Middle East Live Blog, edited by Matthew Weaver, included the following dispatch on President Obama’s March 21 news conference with Mahmoud Abbas in...
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Harriet Sherwood gets it right about settlers and violence
We’ve recently been noticing a slight improvement in the quality of reporting by the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, Harriet Sherwood – a slight but noticeable movement towards greater balance in...
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Guardian video of Peres discussing Iranian nuclear issue inserts unrelated...
The Guardian recently posted a one and a half-minute video on their Israel page showing a recent interview with Shimon Peres. The clip, which, though dealing almost entirely with the Iranian nuclear...
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CiF Watch prompts correction to Guardian publication claim about Israeli...
On July 31, we posted about a false claim, in a caption beneath an EPA photo published at The Observer (sister publication of the Guardian), that most Israeli immigrants (Olim) move to “settlements in...
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Misleading Indy scare headline: Israel to build “900 MORE SETTLEMENTS”
True, the accompanying text of an Aug. 14th story by the Indy’s Ben Lynfied does note that Israel has merely announced their intention to build 900 more homes in (eastern) Jerusalem neighborhoods – but...
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CiF Watch prompts correction to inaccurate Indy headline about settlements
Yesterday, we posted about a report at The Independent which included a headline falsely claiming that Israel had recently announced the construction of “900 more settlements“. As we noted, what...
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CiF Watch prompts correction to extremely misleading Livni quote at ‘Comment...
Yesterday, we posted about a selectively edited quote in a Nov. 26 essay at ‘Comment is Free’ by an anti-Zionist Jew named Michael Brull. We noted that the highly misleading quote – from comments...
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Guardian: Non-Jewish Israelis who live in settlements should not be called...
The Guardian considers all Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (The West Bank) and eastern Jerusalem to be “illegal” under international law. Though we’ve fisked the specious legal and political...
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There’s room at the Inn: More evidence Catherine Philp misled on Bethlehem
In our post on Dec. 25, we commented on a tendentious and highly misleading story published by Catherine Philp at The Times (Settlements choke peace in little town of Bethlehem) which argued that...
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Daily Mail distorts Scarlett Johansson quote to impute greed to SodaStream role
We typically don’t spend too much time monitoring the Daily Mail, but the tabloid had a story about the Scarlett Johansson/SodaStream row which is worth a quick look. As you may recall, Johansson...
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CiF Watch prompts correction to false Indy claim that US views settlements as...
A Feb. 2 story at The Independent by Jonathan Owen, titled ‘Scarlett Johansson split with Oxfam may deter celebrity charity work‘, included the following passage: One of SodaStream’s main factories is...
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‘Fisking’ Robert Fisk’s latest on Israel: distortions, half-truths and...
Robert Fisk isn’t very happy with the latest “betrayal of the Palestinians”, which is how he characterizes the US decision to temporarily end their aggressive engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian...
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Guardian editorial predictably embraces ‘settlement root cause theory’.
Though the Guardian fancies itself ‘the world’s leading liberal voice‘, a fair analysis of the paper’s editorial stance on a myriad of issues suggests an institutional failure to adhere to two...
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Despite Economist claim, ‘fanatical settlement’ of Kochav Ya’ir is neither...
(See UPDATE on this post below) While the UK media (much like its US counterpart) often employ euphemisms – and often wild rhetorical somersaults – to avoid passing ‘value judgments’ on Palestinian...
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CiF Watch prompts Indy correction to claim that abducted teens were ‘settlers’
Yesterday, we posted about a Guardian report co-authored by Peter Beaumont which included a false and characteristically tendentious reference to the three Israeli youths abducted by Palestinian...
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CiF Watch prompts correction to Guardian characterization of abducted boys as...
Earlier today, we noted that the Indy responded to our complaint and corrected a passage in a June 15th article, about the three Israeli youths abducted by Palestinian terrorists on Thursday night,...
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Economist is latest media outlet to falsely claim the 3 kidnapped teens are...
An article in the print edition of the Economist on June 21 titled ‘Stirring Bad Blood‘ included false claims in the opening and final sentences. Here’s the first sentence of the anonymous report: THE...
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Bizarre claim in the Guardian: ‘Red roofs are mandatory in Israeli settlements’
‘What can ‘forensic architecture’ reveal about the conflict in Gaza?‘, Guardian, Sept 1, focuses on the Haifa-born, London educated architect Eyal Weizman, evidently famous in some circles as the...
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A review of BBC News website coverage of UNSC resolution 2334
This is a cross post from BBC Watch. Events at the UN Security Council received generous coverage on the BBC News website on December 23rd and 24th. BBC audiences found articles relating […]
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UK media note construction of Jewish homes in “east” Jerusalem; ignore new...
Are Israeli homes built across the green line only considered "illegal settlement construction" when the homes are built for Jews?
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