Simon Plosker
ARTICLES BY: Simon Plosker
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...
The BBC Erases Non-Israeli Jews From Entebbe Hostages — and Refuses to Correct Its Error
Many media outlets have recently published obituaries for the heroic Air France pilot Michel Bacos, who, along with his flight crew, stayed with the hostages...
Why Do Media Outlets Ignore Palestinian Terror, But Condemn Israel’s Response?
On Monday, a rocket attack from Gaza struck an Israeli house, injuring seven people, including two infants. The attack prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to...
Ilhan Omar Defender Denies Arab and Muslim Antisemitism
Plenty has already been written about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s antisemitic tweets. But what was the reaction in her home state of Minnesota? One standout piece in...
