HonestReporting Canada: Battling Bias in the Media War Against Israel
HRC is on the front lines in promoting fairness, ensuring accuracy, and demanding change in the media war against Israel. To read a couple highlights of our effectiveness from this past month alone, please see our latest alert entitled: "HonestReporting Canada: Battling Bias in the Media War Against Israel".
HonestReporting Canada: Battling Bias in the Media War Against Israel (December 31, 2009)
HonestReporting Canada: Battling Bias in the Media War Against Israel Dec. 31, 2009 View this Article Online and Discuss on Headlines and Deadlines Dear HonestReporting Canada Subscriber, Our number one priority is to be vigilant in ensuring fair and accurate media coverage of Israel. Many of our successes in sensitizing the media to […]
Israelis 'Playing Mini-Mengele'
Read HonestReporting’s latest media critiques: British MP George Galloway recycles the Swedish blood libel to employ Holocaust analogy: “Israelis "Playing Mini-Mengele" Headlines misrepresent IDF actions against terrorist murderers: “Israel Killing "Activists" Not Terrorists”
Jimmy Carter: Please Forgive Me for Stigmatizing Israel
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter recently offered the Jewish community an early Yom Kippur forgiveness prayer. In a letter released to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the notorious anti-Israel activist apologized for his actions which he says “may have stigmatized Israel”: “We must recognize Israel’s achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive […]
HRC Letter to the Editor Published in the Calgary Herald
In a column printed in Monday’s edition of the Calgary Herald, writer Kevin Brooker opines about the issues surrounding the State of Israel’s alleged possession of nuclear weapons and equates democratic Israel with the terror-supporting Iranian regime. HonestReporting Canada Executive Director Mike Fegelman responds to Mr. Brooker in a Letter to the Editor printed in […]
Star Letter Writer?s False Moral Equivalence
In the Toronto Star yesterday, letter writer Naftalie Lavie’s attempt at drawing a moral equivalence between Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, kidnapped on sovereign Israeli soil by Hamas in June 2006 and held incommunicado ever since, with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, falls short for many reasons. For starters, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are either […]