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Telegraph reporter lazily asserts that “settler” Jews violate Geneva Convention
A report in The Telegraph, ‘EU to label products from Israeli settlements, by Ben Lynfield, included the following claim, in a passage attempting to provide context to the recent EU decision over...
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Misleading Indy scare headline: Israel to build “900 MORE SETTLEMENTS”
True, the accompanying text of an Aug. 14th story by the Indy’s Ben Lynfied does note that Israel has merely announced their intention to build 900 more homes in (eastern) Jerusalem neighborhoods – but...
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Indy legitimises ludicrous charge that Israel is ‘ethnically cleansing’...
If facts and logic governed the media’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, then recent claims by Palestinian spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi that new Israeli homes in the neighborhood of Ramat...
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How Jewish prayer represents “an extreme provocation to Muslims worldwide”
UK media coverage of “tensions” at the Temple Mount at times devolves into the absurd, mostly due to the way in which ‘professional’ journalists accept and normalize the logic of Islamist intolerance...
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The Independent fails to fact-check claim in story about ‘Jewish State’ proposal
As our posts noting CiF Watch-prompted corrections often demonstrate, beyond the UK media’s biased coverage of the region there lies another somewhat related problem – the failure to fact-check claims...
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CiF Watch prompts Indy correction – acknowledges that Arab towns were built...
On May 7th we posted about Ben Lynfield’s column (Netanyahu’s ‘Jewish state’ law angers Arab Israelis, May 2) at the Independent, which included the following claim: For example, while hundreds of new...
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UK media silent about Pope’s meeting with Mufti who claimed that Muslims’...
A report at the Independent by Ben Lynfield focuses on Palestinian activists who are “scathing about the Pope’s plans to make the first visit by a pontiff to the tomb of Theodor Herzl”, the founder of...
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One man’s “illegal settlement” is another man’s “historic Jewish homeland”
Even though Hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization by the US and EU, most Western journalists don’t dare use the word “terrorist” when characterizing the group, out of concern that the term is...
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UK media coverage of the kidnapping of three Israeli teens – a CiF Watch review
On June 15th, we posted about a Guardian report co-authored by Peter Beaumont which included a gratuitous (and erroneous) characterization to the three Israeli teens abducted by Palestinian terrorists...
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UK journo uses subjective word ‘terrorist’ for Jews, but not for Hamas
The Independent doesn’t appear to have a permanent Israel correspondent in the region anymore, but often employs the services of a freelance journalist named Ben Lynfield, who took it upon himself to...
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CiF Watch prompts Indy correction to claim about Muslim prayer at the Mount
In addition to the bizarre suggestion by Ben Lynfield at The Independent that recent violence in Jerusalem can be attributed to Israeli restrictions on Muslim “access to al-Aqsa Mosque”, his Nov. 6th...
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Indy buries the lead on Arab Jerusalemite support for synagogue massacre
The mayor of Ashkelon is already backtracking, after rightfully coming under fire from politicians across the political spectrum, from his pledge to fire Arab workers installing bomb shelters in city...
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The Independent obfuscates overwhelming Israeli support for Operation...
A July 7th article by The Independent’s Ben Lynfield (Gaza, a year on from Operation Protective Edge: The traumatised kibbutz on Israel’s front line, still recovering from last summer’s war with Hamas)...
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UK Media Watch prompts two corrections at The Independent
A July 3rd article in The Independent, written by Sam Masters, mischaracterized the conclusions of a UNHRC report on the Gaza war. Here’s the relevant sentence: A recent UN report into last year’s […]
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Independent revises inaccurate headline on Eisenkot comments
We’ve posted frequently on UK media headlines about the current wave of Palestinian terror that are biased, inaccurate or misleading, and late yesterday The Independent provided yet another example in...
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