Hollywood artists demand balanced coverage of Israel-Gaza fighting
Signatories to joint statement decrying "misleading, one-sided accounts" include Michael Bublé, Gene Simmons, Selma Blair, Haim Saban, and Noa Tishby.
Signatories to joint statement decrying "misleading, one-sided accounts" include Michael Bublé, Gene Simmons, Selma Blair, Haim Saban, and Noa Tishby.
An investigation by the Jewish Chronicle reveals "a pattern of anti-Israel bias and inaccuracies" in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Arabic service. BBC "was forced to acknowledge 25 mistakes in its Arabic coverage of Israel in just over two years, issuing on average nearly one correction every month," JC says.
Senior producer Rosie Garthwaite, who is currently working on a new documentary critical of "Israeli actions" in east Jerusalem, deletes “inaccurate” pro-Palestinian propaganda on Twitter.
“It was appalling to watch Orla Guerin hijack a segment dedicated to remembering 6 million murdered Jews and use it to desecrate the memory of the Holocaust with her hatred of the Jewish state,” says Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.
Between January and August 2019, the BBC News website reported 25.7% of the terror attacks against Israel and 80% of the resulting fatalities, BBC Watch reports.
Politics editor Tom Wright-Piersanti tweets that he is "deeply sorry" for tweets in which he said things like, "Happy Jew Year" and "Who called the Jew-police?" Zionist Organization of American calls for review of every content Wright-Piersanti was involved in publishing.
Daily Mail report claims BBC hopes move will help avoid perception of bias and to boost consistency. Stories to “refer to terror attacks by naming specific details, such as the location and the method."
Editor says the move was in the works for a year but one of the paper's main cartoonists attributes it directly to the Netanyahu-Trump cartoon published by the paper in April.
While acknowledging the "appalling" nature of the cartoon and the paper's own past failures to recognize and condemn anti-Semitism, Times’ Editorial Board says, "President Trump has done too little to rouse the national conscience against it."
Jewish and pro-Israel groups blast "untimely bad move" of running an image from Norwegian cartoonist Roar Hagen that depicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his eyes blacked out, carrying a tablet emblazoned with the Star of David.
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