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by Tamar Sternthal With each telling, Ha’aretz’s falsehood on building permits for east Jerusalem Arabs becomes further inflated, despite the fact that editors were provided with corrective information. Thus, on May 17, 2006 Jonathan Lis falsely claimed: “Since 1967, almost no building permits have been issued for the eastern part of the capital” (”More demolitions carried […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Israel media on Wednesday escalated a campaign against Jewish rights to the Peace House in Hevron following a High Court ruling that the more than 20 families there must leave. Voice of Israel government radio news anchorwoman Estie Peres, who previously has faced complaints of an anti-religious and anti-nationalist bias, called […]

With each telling, Ha’aretz’s falsehood on building permits for east Jerusalem Arabs becomes further inflated, despite the fact that editors were provided with corrective information. Thus, on May 17, 2006 Jonathan Lis falsely claimed: “Since 1967, almost no building permits have been issued for the eastern part of the capital” (”More demolitions carried out in […]

Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Perhaps sensing that the liberal media’s attack template of Sarah Palin as lightweight rube had not made a discernible difference in the campaign polling numbers - and may in fact have driven swing voters to the McCain-Palin ticket - The New York Times appeared to be trying a different tack last […]

August 5, 2008 by Eric Rozenman When Israeli forces raided several West Bank institutions believed to be allied with Hamas (the terrorist Islamic Resistance Movement), The Washington Post made “Unease Over West Bank Raids; Israeli Crackdown on Charities Problematic for Palestinian Authority” its lead July 18 World News article. But when the worst fighting between Hamas and […]

By:Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Wednesday, July 16, 2008 There is one question readers have asked the Monitor with far greater frequency than any other. It’s a simple one, and it goes basically like this: What is the most important thing you can say about […]

By Jason Maoz, Senior Editor The Jewish Press, July 25, 2008 Honestreporting.com is out with a study of how The New York Times covered Israel in 205 news stories between July 2007 and June 2008. The verdict: particularly in the way it employs headlines and photos, “it is clear that there is an inherent bias in New […]

Initial BBC and the AFP headlines ignore the victims in second bulldozer attack Less than three weeks after a Palestinian from east Jerusalem used a bulldozer to kill three people on a busy street in Israel’s capital, another east Jerusalem resident attempted to replicate the attack. The second attacker rammed his bulldozer into a bus, then […]

By:Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Wednesday, July 2, 2008 When I agreed to take over the Media Monitor column (the first with my byline ran 10 years ago this week), both it and I were relatively recent additions to the paper – the column as basically a repository for press releases put out by media watchdog groups […]