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Fascism, she cried! (Meet the Guardian’s Mya Guarnieri, secular Jewish messiah)
I recently commented to a colleague that, though I’ve worked professionally fighting anti-Semitism and advocating on behalf of Israel for many years – and there weren’t many distortions, lies, or...
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Dhimmi Roots of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
This was written by Lyn Julius, and published at The Propagandist. Julius co-founded Harif, a UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Her parents fled Iraq in 1950. Six little...
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What the Guardian won’t report: Happy and successful Arab citizens of Israel
H/T Elder of Ziyon While polls indicating that Israelis are among the happiest citizens in the world are not surprising (they came in 7th in a 2011 global happiness index survey, with 63% of...
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New Year’s Eve Reflections: On the Guardian’s disproportionate focus on Israel
With 2012 coming to a close, I decided to look back at some the more popular CiF Watch posts. First, here are the posts read most by our loyal readers – and more than a few of our opponents – over the...
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‘Comment is Free’ contributor claims 1967 Six Day War was act of Israeli...
Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian Arab who’s the former director of the Palestinian NGO Al-Haq, a radical group which has characterized Palestinian terror attacks as legitimate “resistance” and is...
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Jewish “terrorists” vs Arab “fighters”: An open letter to the Guardian’s...
The following is a letter written by a CiF Watch reader named David Shayne, and originally submitted to the Guardian’s Richard Norton-Taylor in response to his report entitled ‘British officials...
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Towards a new ‘liberation theology’: Will progressives ever learn to embrace...
Here are the first few paragraphs of my Times of Israel essay published today: If the progressive community was truly concerned about the fate of historically oppressed minorities, and sincerely moved...
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CiF Watch prompts Guardian correction over Arab Israeli population stats
We recently commented on a Guardian editorial, ostensibly about Jerusalem’s recent municipal elections, which managed to legitimize the extremist view that the Jewish state should be replaced with a...
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Malice through the looking glass: What if Israel behaved like other Mid-East...
A guest post by Joe Geary NEWS: Middle East Good evening. In the usual weekly display of anti-Iranian feeling, thousands of Israelis poured into the streets of Tel Aviv after Saturday prayers, chanting...
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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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Focus below the line: Guardian readers ‘reflect’ on Israel and the Jews (June...
This post is part of a series which re-focuses on the problem of biased moderation at the Guardian’s blog ‘Comment is Free’ (CiF) – particularly, reader comments which are off-topic, ad hominem or...
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UK media report 200 Israelis chanting racist slogans, but fail to cover 1,000...
Since the bodies of Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Frankel and Gilad Shaar were buried in a Modi’in cemetery on Tuesday, UK media coverage has pivoted from some degree of sympathy towards the victims and their...
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CiF Watch prompts Guardian correction to anti-Bibi smear by Chris McGreal
On Aug. 1st we fisked the claim in the following Tweet (on July 22) by Guardian reporter Chris McGreal two decades ago Binyamin #Netanyahu led rally under the banner “Death to Arabs”. Now he’s making...
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CiF Watch prompts revision to Economist claim about MK Zoabi’s suspension
Earlier in the month we posted about a curious omission in an Economist article titled ‘Us and Them‘, Aug. 2. Israeli MK Haneen Zoabi To buttress their broader theme on the putative ‘erosion of...
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The Guardian misrepresents Netanyahu’s comments on rioters
A Nov. 9th article by the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, Peter Beaumont, on recent Arab protests in response to the deadly police shooting of a man in the Galilee town of Kufr Kana (Violence...
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SOAS London event dispells ‘simplistic’ view that Hizbullah is a terror group
Cross posted from London-based blogger Richard Millett To say that my question “Is this book pro-Hizbollah?” wasn’t well received on Tuesday night at SOAS is an understatement. I was at the book...
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Guardian Letter: Palestinians are indigenous to the land, descendants of...
A letter published in the Guardian on Dec. 3, by Maher Othman of London, opened with the following passages: Though I agree with Giles Fraser’s analysis (Loose canon, 29 November) that “Netanyahu’s...
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The Guardian, The Economist and the building blocks of delegitimization
A guest post by Lyn Julius ‘Urban warfare’ – using buildings as weapons in the Israel-Palestinian conflict – has long been an element in the arsenal of those who seek to de-legitimise […]
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Times of London editorial misleads on Israel’s so-called Arab population bomb
When the late Yasser Arafat used to predict that “the womb of the Arab woman” was the Palestinians’ “strongest weapon”, he meant that the Arabs of Israel and the Palestinian territories would outbreed […]
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