Tag: Journalism
Tlaib honors Palestinian ‘journalist’ who celebrated Oct. 7 terrorist attacks
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a member of the so-called progressive “Squad” in the U.S. House of Representatives and a frequent critic of the Jewish state, recognized a Palestinian “journalist”—who celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist...
Campus rally challenges Missouri award for photo of Shani Louk’s body
A prestigious award given by the University of Missouri to a photojournalist who took an image depicting the half-naked body of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old Israeli murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music...
UN credibility on Israel, Palestinians ‘in serious doubt,’ after error about Gazan ‘journalist’
A United Nations office stands corrected after having “verified” the death of someone whom it referred to as a Gazan journalist. But despite the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights assuring...
Investigation explodes myth that Israel targets journalists
Despite Israel’s herculean efforts to avoid killing noncombatants in the Gaza Strip, a new wrinkle has been added to media charges of indiscriminate Israeli killing—a kind of blood libel within a blood libel—namely that...
Photographer’s award praised by ‘Times’ same day he’s named in lawsuit
Meaghan Looram, director of photography at The New York Times, praised on Feb. 21 the “fearless and compassionate work” of Yousef Masoud, who just won a George Polk Award in Journalism for his photography related to the...
HonestReporting Canada persuades ‘CBC’ to retract Palestinian history claim
An article published by CBC News titled “B.C. minister under fire for comments about Middle East before creation of Israeli state” received multiple corrections following a critique from HonestReporting Canada.
The reporting focused on comments by Selina Robinson, British Columbia’s minister...
Gaza photojournalists accused of Oct. 7 war crimes
Two Gaza-based Palestinian photojournalists who infiltrated Israel during Hamas’s massacres on Oct. 7 committed war crimes, experts say.
“I believe that this is clearly an incidence that would come under and be covered by both...
‘BBC’ in English is in many ways worse about Israel than ‘BBC Arabic’
On Sunday evening, Dec. 10, I gave my third interview for BBC Arabic TV since Oct. 7, a station that has a combined audience of tens of millions in the Middle East and Europe, as well as online.
Two...
Media promote cynical Hamas lies
As if we needed more proof, the Israel-Hamas war has given mainstream media countless opportunities to amplify the manifestly false narrative that Israel is an oppressor, attacking Hamas and the Gazan people, underdogs struggling...
Hassan Eslaiah, freelancer for CNN, AP, referred to ‘beautiful thing about storming the settlements’
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis warned the Associated Press five years ago about the photographer Hassan Eslaiah, from whom the AP and CNN have distanced themselves following questions about the role he and other freelancers...