All Entries Tagged With: "Media Bias"

Photo of the Day: Biggest Obstacle to Peace Edition

Introducing our latest weapon: Better services and reasonable rents.

This July 30, 2009 photo shows Israelis sitting in a coffee shop as Arab women walk past in the French hill neighborhood of northern Jerusalem. A small but growing number of Arabs is moving into Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Most come for the better services and reasonable [...]

Palestinian Photojournalist Sends His Love

Palestinian photojournalist Fadi Arouri, who got to my site by searching for himself on Daylife, comments on this post:
First of all, I’ll post my comment as a photographer, I’ll not speak about the boring Palestinian Israeli conflict.
It seems that u r so stupid to judge on our work, captions.. etc, because u r to lower [...]

Lies My Gazan Told Me

This Al Jizz article asks Gazans about the truce that never was. The conclusion? They are full of sh*t.
Abed al-Raouf Saedallah, 61, works in a shop to support a family of 11
The truce was a rest for both sides, Palestinians and Israelis alike…
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Ismaeel Abu Khalil, 19, high school student who works in a grocery
The [...]

BBC Anti-Zionism On Display

From the BBC website, by their diplomatic and defense editor, Mark Urban:
The global honeymoon that accompanied Barack Obama’s election was never going to last forever, but there are some people for whom it already appears to be over – even though the president elect will not take power until 21st January. The Illinois senator’s desire [...]

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 [...]

Palestinian Media Panel Decries Lack of Impartiality in Reporting

Of course, by impartial and professional, they mean not showing bias against any of the palestinian terror organizations. Bias against Israel is fine.
Journalists lamented the balkanization of Palestinian media at a symposium in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday.
A panel titled “The Role of Journalism in Enhancing Civil Society” was held on Sunday [...]

Bad Words?

Israeli soldiers use white paint to cover graffiti after Jewish settlers scrawled bad words on the walls of a mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on November 20, 2008. Jewish settlers angry at an Israeli court order for their eviction from a house in Hebron desecrated a mosque and tombs in the [...]

Nah, They’re Not Anti-Semitic

We know that Muslims respect Judaism as a religion and only hate Zionism, right?
From The MEMRi Blog, quoting Akhbar Al-Arab, November 18, 2008:

But I’m sure that waves of outraged Muslims who respect Judaism will be writing letters to the editor complaining about this bigotry, and pundits and politicians will appear on TV to condemn it, [...]

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 [...]