Updates to post on ‘Women of the Wall’ & alleged gender segregation in Petah Tikva
This story has been updated below On Feb. 19, we posted about Harriet Sherwood’s Feb. 17 Guardian report, ‘Sarah Silverman tweet puts women’s Western Wall…
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Examining a rumor about Israel started by ‘Women of the Wall’ and repeated by the Guardian
Harriet Sherwood’s Feb. 17 report in the Guardian, ‘Sarah Silverman tweet puts women’s Western Wall protest in global spotlight‘, focused on a protest by…
Unquestioning repetition of claims by political activist in BBC report on Negev
On April 27th 2001 – exactly seven months after the second Intifada began – a group of Israeli citizens signed a petition calling for…
Racism in football, Israel and Egypt: Contrast in Guardian coverage
Israel The Guardian has devoted five separate stories (including three videos) in their coverage of recent acts of anti-Muslim racism by fans of the…
The Guardian takes note of a Middle Eastern country not involved in “rendition”
A guest post by AKUS Controversy over the practice of “rendition” has been intense. In a recent article in the Washington Post, the Post…
The Guardian deploys Tony Greenstein ‘as-a-Jew’ to defend the morally indefensible
“…an acronym – or something like an acronym – lay concealed in the name the group had already given itself. Instead of ‘Ashamed Jews’,…
What the Guardian won’t report: Israel’s thriving, liberal democracy
Our friends at CAMERA wrote the following, in a post titled ‘Where’s the coverage? Israel the Only Free Country in the Middle East‘, Jan. 23,…
Guardian editorial on Israeli vote ignores their own erroneous political predictions
While we’re quite accustomed to Guardian reporters and commentators completely re-writing Israeli history, an editorial on the results of the Israeli election re-writes their…
The Guardian gets it wrong: Exit polls indicate no rightward political shift in Israel
If exit polls (as reported by Times of Israel and other media outlets) turn out to be accurate, the Guardian mantra – parroted by nearly…
Genocide Abuse Day at the IHRC
Cross posted by Mark Gardner at the blog of the CST With Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January) fast approaching, so does its annual bastardisation by our local…