This is truly shocking: media giant BBC is bossed around by Israel. The headline “Israeli air strikes kill pregnant woman and baby” magically become “Gaza air strikes ‘kill woman and child’ after rockets hit Israel” when Israel’s foreign ministry spokesman ordered it to be changed “IMMEDIATELY.” A BBC spokesperson admitted that “although the original headline was not factually incorrect, we updated it to add more context to the story”. They added something else too, and it ain’t truth.
One BBC senior producer confided, ‘We wait in fear for the phone call from the Israelis,’” whenever they publish negative stories about Israel.
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AP ignores Israel’s brutality in its Morning Wire
As Israel – recipient of billions of US taxpayer dollars a year – kills, wounds, and abducts Palestinians of all ages, the Associated Press continues its practice of downplaying or omitting news about Israeli violence. Articles highlighted in AP’s Morning Wire newsletter confirm the outlet’s ongoing bias.
Secretive Israeli nuclear facility undergoes major project
A long-secretive Israeli nuclear facility that gave birth to its undeclared atomic weapons program is undergoing what appears to be its biggest construction project in decades, according to satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press.
Media’s Linguistic Gymnastics Mislead on Gaza Protests
Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times can’t seem to say “Palestinians protest nonviolently; Israeli soldiers kill them.” Headlines from the region consistently misrepresent the situation as two equal sides – or worse, as Palestinian aggressors inciting Israel to return fire. Words matter.
AP’s slanted report on Gaza Return March, corrected and annotated
The Associated Press’s news story on the upcoming Great Return March echoes Israeli talking points…
Flashback: AP erased video of Israeli soldier shooting Palestinian boy
Eleven years ago, Alison Weir published an account of the Associated Press erasing footage of an Israeli soldier intentionally shooting a Palestinian boy (originally published in CounterPunch). This was part of a pattern by the AP, as described in the article.
What is AP erasing, ignoring and leaving out these days?
Wikipedia’s entry on Alison Weir is rife with falsehoods and bias
The Wikipedia entry on Alison Weir is among the items targeted by Israel partisans. It contains numerous false claims and misinformation. Below is a point by point rebuttal. It is crucial that Wikipedia correct this.
As Gazans starve, American politicians obsess over Netanyahu arrest warrant – Day 411
Gazan women and children killed in their sleep; farmland and cattle decimated; Gaza is not ready for winter weather; another West Bank death; American politicians denounce, threaten Int’l Criminal Court; Pentagon rejects ICC decision, but doesn’t know why; more
Israel dropped over 85,000 tons of bombs on Gaza since start of genocide – Day 396
Palestinians barred from returning to homes in northern Gaza; Israeli strike kills 25 – 13 of them children; Israel orders $5.2B worth of new fighter jets (paid for by US military aid); new criminal probe opened against Netanyahu; new Israeli deportation law targets Palestinians; UN signals: no UNRWA means Israel is on its own; 2 Palestinians killed in West Bank; what Rashida Tlaib’s re-election signifies; more.
Israel defies Biden’s demand to increase aid, or else – Day 394
Israeli attack leaves newborn babies injured in Gaza hospital; hospital staff fear they will be “executed”; Israel failing to bring in more aid to Gaza after Biden sends threatening letter; still no evidence against UNRWA; Israeli pogroms ravage West Bank towns; massive destruction in Lebanon; Holocaust survivors’ son arrested in London for pro-Palestine “hate speech”; more.