Simon Plosker
ARTICLES BY: Simon Plosker
Exposed: Media Outlet Deliberately Misrepresents Israeli Interviewee to Imply Anti-Arab Racism
Just how far will some journalists go to imply that Israeli Jews are anti-Arab racists or bigots? According to an NPR report titled “Palestinians weigh in...
The New York Times’ ‘Non-Threatening’ Terrorists
In a “visual investigation” whose goal is to disprove Israeli accounts of events and promote alternative versions that incriminate Israel in supposedly criminal acts, The...
Wire Service Distorts Arab Opinion Poll to Bash Israel
The State of Israel has long been a welcome distraction from domestic problems for many Arab governments and regimes. After all, an external enemy to...
UK Media Outlets Take Undisclosed Tour, Then Attack Israel
Three UK media outlets. Three stories focused on Christians in the Holy Land, all to some degree holding Israel primarily responsible for their plight. No...
Reuters and AP on Gaza Men Drowning: Spot the Difference
Spot the difference. Two wire services covered the mass funeral of eight young Palestinians who drowned off the coast of Tunisia nearly two months ago,...
The Times of London’s Undiplomatic Correspondent
The Times of London’s diplomatic correspondent Catherine Philp’s 15-year career at the newspaper has included postings in Israel and the Middle East. During this time,...
Newspaper Turns Iron Dome Into a ‘Lethal Weapon’
Iron Dome is an air defense missile system that destroys incoming rockets aimed at Israeli civilian targets. It saves Israeli lives by intercepting rockets before...
A UK Paper and ‘The Trouble With Jews Today’
In the run-up to the British general election, the UK media has, for the most part, been relatively sympathetic towards the Jewish community in the...
BBC Imagery Implies Israeli Airstrikes Target Children
Unidentified aircraft, widely believed to be Israeli, recently carried out overnight airstrikes on targets belonging to Iran-backed militias near Syria’s border with Iraq. The BBC‘s report...
Gaza ‘Victim’ Exposed With His AK-47
On August 4, HonestReporting critiqued a feature in The Sunday Times by advocacy journalist Sarah Helm. Given her track record of lies and distortions, it...
Racist Soccer Fans Falsely Portrayed as a Mirror of Israel
There’s no denying that the behavior of a section of fans of the Israeli Premier League soccer team Beitar Jerusalem is an embarrassment to the...
An LA Times Op-Ed Sweetens the Destruction of Israel
The concepts of equal rights and justice are embedded in the American psyche. One US academic of Palestinian descent, George Bisharat, is well aware of...
Palestinians Have No Historical Connection to Tel Aviv
Unsurprisingly last week, there were a rash of media articles focusing on the 71st anniversary -- not of Israel’s independence, but what Palestinians call the...
From the Scene: Under Fire in Israel’s South
In November of 2018, I had the experience of walking through a bombed-out apartment building in Ashkelon, where a Gaza rocket strike had resulted in...
