Honest Reporting recently took the Irish Times to task for a misleading report about an Irish ballet teacher in which Israel was referred to as Palestine.
Juliet Casey (Facebook)
On April 23, we called the Irish Times to task for an interview with Juliet Casey “originally from Walkinstown, Dublin, but now lives in Palestine, where she teaches ballet.”
It became quite clear, however, that Casey lives not in Palestine, but in Haifa, Israel’s third largest city, and teaches in Nazareth, also in Israel, seriously compromising the accuracy of the article and ensured a nasty politicized anti-Israel bias in the piece.
Following an email from HonestReporting to the Irish Times editor, an asterisk now appears at the top of the article with this “correction” at the end:
* This article was amended on April 24th, 2020
The first thing to point out is the lack of transparency on the part of the Irish Times. A proper correction in any media should include some brief description of what and a reason for why something has been changed. Instead, the Irish Times leaves no record for the reader.
Shame on the Irish Times and well done Honest Reporting.
But there’s something else I want to draw to your attention. This claim by Casey, as mentioned in the Irish Times piece:
The economy here is always on the verge of collapse and a huge number of people support big families on less than €2 an hour, so I’m sure that things will become dire very soon. Obviously, in Gaza, things are even worse and I can’t imagine how desperate the situation may become.
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In other words, Juliet Casey worked in a place frequented by wealthy palestinians, or at least not those with “big families on less than €2 an hour.” Even if such families do exist elsewhere, she was not being truthful about the real situation, with which she was acquainted.
She was lying, just like she was on Facebook, when she referred to Tiberias as being in Palestine (since hidden or deleted).
And the Irish Times bought her lies hook, line and sinker.
A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
