Posts Tagged: Adam Levick
Israel Isn’t a Uniquely Bad Country — Coverage of Israel Is Uniquely Bad Journalism
Much has been written about the double standards against Israel in the media, but it is a topic that deserves to be revisited. It can be argued...
BDS Fails, August 2016
This is the latest installment of an ongoing series of posts documenting BDS fails. Political BDS Fails 1. Benjamin Netanyahu accepts invitation to be the first Israeli PM to visit Australia Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted...
UK Writers Smears Israel Through a Glaring Omission
Veteran Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland recently wrote an op-ed lamenting the failure of Israelis and Palestinians to escape the morass of the current conflict ("Amid the bloodshed, Palestinians and Israelis are...
Antisemitism, Jeremy Corbyn and the UK Labour Party
A lot has been written in the British media about antisemitism in the UK Labour Party, but an op-ed by Dave Rich of the CST masterfully cuts down to the core of what the debate...
UK Paper Says Netanyahu Opposed All Negotiation With Iran, Offers No Evidence to Support Claim
In a July 28 article (Huckabee likens Iran deal to Holocaust), Times of London Middle East reporter Hugh Tomlinson claimed that Israel’s prime minister not only opposes...
‘Guardian’ Letter Warns UK Muslims: Joining ISIS Benefits Israel
Here’s a letter (Jihadis are waging war on Arab countries, June 17th) published in the Guardian in response to a report about Talha Asmal - who at age 17 became Britain’s youngest...
The ‘Financial Times’ Tries to Paint Israel as Racist Over Ethiopian Protests
A May 3 article by Financial Times Jerusalem bureau chief John Reed focused on Sunday's clashes between police and Israelis protesting police brutality, after a video was released showing...
‘Economist’ Article Falsely Blames Israel for Slow Pace of Gaza Reconstruction
A recent (annonymous) article in The Economist assigned primary blame to Israel for the slow pace of Gaza reconstruction. Not one of the 19,000 homes in...
The Guardian Appoints Anti-Israel Propagandist as Editor-in-Chief
On Friday the Guardian announced that Katharine Viner, deputy editor of the Guardian and editor-in-chief of Guardian US, was appointed as their new editor-in-chief. The decision was not a...
Guardian Op-Ed on CIA Torture Uses Picture of Jewish Menorah
The Observer (sister site of the Guardian) published an official editorial on Sunday (The Observer view on torture, Dec. 14) in response to a report issued...
Matti Friedman Explains the Media Bias Against Israel
In carrying out our mission, CiF Watch often attempts to contextualize the Guardian's coverage of Israel by explaining not only what they get wrong, but...
Why is a Guardian Columnist Holding Jews to Higher Standards
"Of all people," opined Giles Fraser in his November 28 Guardian column about the new Jewish nation-state law, "Jews know what it is to live in somebody...
Economist Says Jews Wanting to Pray at Temple Mount Are ‘Militants’
In a great example of the media's use of language to blur moral differences within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Economist expanded the common understanding of the...
Guardian Suggests Yasser Arafat Abandoned Terrorism After 1990; Here Are the Facts
A nearly 5,000 word haliographic profile of Yasser Arafat by Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi in the Guardian characteristically obfuscated the decades-long record of planning and carrying...
