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Getty Images Springs Into Action

Last week, I pointed out a misleading caption that suggested that the graffiti shown in the accompanying picture were “bad words”, whereas they were actually biblical verses. Israellycool reader Seth took the initiative to point this out to Getty Images in an email:
I have stumbled across the following image and there is a major issue [...]

Mainstream Media Bias of the Day

The AFP reports:
Jewish settlers beat up Palestinian boy near Hebron
Bilal Daana was attacked by a group of settlers near the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron. They beat him up and threw stones at him, the Palestinian medics said.
The boy was taken by Israeli soldiers to a checkpoint at the entrance to Hebron from [...]

Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones..

A picture courtesy from Reuters shows AFP’s Palestinian photographer Hazem Bader (R) holding his bleeding head after he was hit by a stone hurled at journalists by Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron on October 31, 2008. Bader, 42, was taken to a Hebron hospital with his head bleeding. He was given [...]

Media Bias of the Day

Palestinian former-prisoner Sonia al-Rai smiles surrounded by friends and family at the Jalama checkpoint near the West Bank city of Jenin on October 26, 2008, after being released from an Israeli jail after 11 years. Sonia al-Rai, 40, held longer than any other female inmate in an Israeli jail, was released today and met by [...]

I See Naked People

I’m not going to post this photo because I’m pretty sure there is some male full frontal nudity (and a hairy bum for good measure). But I have to ask: What on earth were AFP thinking when they decided to take a picture of naked religious Jewish men during a religious ritual, and then post [...]

What’s Missing?

Palestinian youth ready to lob stones at the Israeli army during clashes at the entrance to the West Bank village of Nilin close to the city of Ramallah on August 14 2008. Over the past four years, Nilin has been the scene of near daily demonstrations against Israel’s barrier of concrete and steel that cuts [...]

Blatant Media Bias of the Day

Courtesy of the AFP:

A Palestinian activist throws a stone as a kind of military grenade bounces next to him during a demonstration against Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Billin near Ramallah on June 13, 2008. A Palestinian suffered a severe live gunshot wound today, along with seven others who were [...]