Tag: "Media Bias"

Caption Bias of the Day

Caption Bias of the Day

Terrorists don’t attack people. Bombs do.

A Taste of “Concentration Camp” Gaza: The Movenpick Hotel

A Taste of “Concentration Camp” Gaza: The Movenpick Hotel

Introducing Gaza’s Movenpick Hotel.

Palestinian boys hold symbolic keys as they take part during a rally marking "Nakba" in the West Bank city of Nablus May 15, 2011. Palestinians mark the "Nakba", or catastrophe, on Sunday to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700, 000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. Reuters

Nakba Caption Bias of the Day

Media bias, Reuters style.

Egyptians hold Palestinian flags during a rally calling for the end of the Israeli occupation on Palestine, in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Biased Caption of the Day

The Associated Press does it again.

CNN’s Ten Must-Read Blogs From The Middle East

CNN’s Ten Must-Read Blogs From The Middle East

CNN recommends its ten must-read blogs from the Middle East.

Guess which Middle Eastern country is not represented.

Wearing their Islamic style uniforms, Iranian Jewish school girls, react with joy, at the Fakhr-e-Danesh school of Iranian Jewish community, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, May 3, 2011.  About 20,000 Jews live in Iran which has the biggest Jewish community in the middle east outside Israel, and they have one Jewish representative in the parliament under the constitution. Under the country's strict Islamic regulations, women should cover themselves head to toe, although they are allowed to show their faces, and religious minorities must follow Islamic dress codes such as head scarves for women. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Happy Happy Joy Joy

Oh how much fun it is to be a Jew in Iran.

Palestinian Hamas security officers help an injured worker following an Israeli tank shelling at Gaza's Industrial area east of Gaza city, Friday April 22, 2011. Three Palestinian workers were  wounded when  Israeli tank fired on them inside Gaza Industrial area near Karni crossing in the eastern Gaza Strip,  Palestinian official said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)

Caption Bias of the Day

Just another example of what we’ve come to expect from the Associated Press.

A Palestinian school girl is stands near a camel at the only small amusement park of the Gaza strip, in Gaza City, on March 29, 2011. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images

Caption Bias Of The Day

I have regularly noted that Gaza is far from being the “concentration camp” or “open air prison” that some people claim it is. As part of my proof, I have posted photos of the facilities in Gaza. Facilities that include an amusement park.

Not to fear! A certain AFP caption writer has found a way to deal with this inconvenient fact.

Insulting Treatment

Insulting Treatment

In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, a couple of pro-palestinian useful idiots bemoan the inhumanity of the Kalandia checkpoint.

In this post, I bemoan their disingenuousness.

Evolution of a Lie

Evolution of a Lie

Palestinian reporting at it’s finest.