Media & Manipulation
Muhammad Al-Dura: The boy who wasn’t really killed by Ben Caspit, Jerusalem Post, May 12, 2013
From al Durah to Badawi: Lethal journalism and Palestinian Propaganda’s Manufacturing of Consent by Philippe Assouline, Huffington Post, March 5, 2013
Al-Dura and the tragic legacy of lethal journalism by Richard Landes, Times of Israel, January 14, 2013
Indicting Israel: New York Times Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, December 5, 2012
Falling for Hamas’s media manipulation by Michael Oren, Washington Post, November 29, 2012
The Secret to Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop by Alexander Abad-Santo, The Atlantic Wire, November 28, 2012
Video (2’47″): Gaza Photo Fraud, Aish, November 22, 2012
The New York Times‘ Embattled Integrity by Sarit Katz, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), July 27, 2012
How media condition people to be anti-Israel by Steve Apfel, Times of Israel, June 11, 2012
Slide presentation: Six Secrets of Media Objectivity, Honest Reporting, May 2012
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Video: Simon Plosker, Managing Editor of HonestReporting, Interviewed About Media Bias and Israel’s Demonization, Revelation TV [U.K.], March 23, 2012
Lies Propagated out of Ignorance by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, February 15, 2012
Viral photo of abusive Israeli soldier called a fake, Los Angeles Times, February 2, 2012
The Muhammad al-Dura Hoax and Other Myths Revived by Nidra Poller, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2011
The [New York] Times’ Anti-Israel Smear Campaign by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, November 3, 2011
EXPOSED: Photographer Reveals Market, Not Truth, Behind Conflict Images by Simon Plosker, Honest Reporting, October 10, 2011
New York Times Israel Op-ed Index for September 2011 by Daniel Goldstein, The Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, October 3, 2011
BBC Ethics Unveiled: Lies About Jerusalem, Lies About Guidelines by Ricki Hollander and Gilead Ini, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), March 31, 2011 [video]
Much Mass Media Coverage of Israel-Palestinian Issues Is Propaganda, Not Journalism by Barry Rubin, The Rubin Report, March 20, 2011
B’Tselem Photographer Stages Scene by Yishai Goldflam, Tamar Sternthal, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), March 2, 2011 (updated)
Time Magazine Takes Israel Hatred to a New Level by Alana Goodman, Commentary, January 11, 2011
FrontPage Close-Up with Jamie Glazov: Interview with Philippe Karsenty, the French media analyst who exposed the Mohammed Al-Dura fraud, December 9, 2010
Shattered Lens: Photo Bias Exposed in the Wire Services, Honest Reporting, December 9, 2010
My Battle for the Truth Against the French Establishment, a briefing by Philippe Karsenty, Middle East Forum, October 12, 2010
Acceptable in Polite Society by Daniel Gordis, Commentary blog, September 7, 2010
A Wonderful Graphic Example of Ridiculous Media Bias by Barry Rubin, The Rubin Report, August 17, 2010
Today’s Example of Ridiculous Media Bias Against Israel by Barry Rubin, The Rubin Report, August 3, 2010
The Al-Dura Hoax: Truth, Finally, May Be Coming by Chris Dreyfus, Pajamas Media, July 13, 2010
And You Thought Vuvuzelas Were Annoying, HonestReporting, July 6, 2010 (About staged photo-op, irrelevant photo and misleading caption in the Times of London)
The Privileged Slander: Why the Media Laps Up The Anti-Israel Lying Campaign by Barry Rubin, The Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, June 27, 2010
Secret Decoder Ring: Understanding How The New York Times Thinks About Israel by Martin Berman-Gorvine, June 2010
NY Times Defends Obama, Not U.S. Interests; Blames Israel, Not White House or Palestinians for All Problems by Barry Rubin, The Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, March 31, 2010
Opposing the digital pogrom by Daniel Seaman, Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2010
Israel’s PR Problem by Michael Hirsch, Newsweek, January 5, 2010
Caveat Lector. Let the Reader Beware. by David Harris, Jerusalem Post Blog, June 8, 2009
A Matter of Trust: One story from Gaza and what it says about the coverage of Israel by J.J. Goldberg, Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2009
The Story You Aren’t Hearing About Israel by Mort Zuckerman, The Huffington Post, April 13, 2009
Israel Losing the Media War: Wonder Why? by Philippe Karsenty, Hudson New York, January 30, 2009
Gaza vs. Congo: A Tale of Media Double Standards by Eli Bernstein, Pajamas Media, January 17, 2009
Myths and Facts about the Fighting in Gaza by Alex Safian, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), January 8, 2009
Nothing to see here, folks: Foreign media’s Israel coverage wanes by Ben Sales, Jerusalem Post, July 31, 2008
The New York Times: A Year-Long Analysis, Honest Reporting, July 16, 2008
Picture: Iran ‘fakes’ missile launch after misfire by Chris Smyth Times Online [UK], July 10, 2008
Neurotic newsmen by Charles Jacobs, July 8, 2008
Our World: The media and enduring narrative by Caroline Glick, Jerusaelm Post, July 8, 2008
Right of reply: Conspiracy theories and Al-Dura by Richard Landes and Philippe Karsenty, Jerusalem Post, June 11, 2008
Palestinian industry of lies by Danny Seaman, YNetNews.com, May 29, 2008 (“Media manipulation has become strategic Arab weapon against Israel”)
A Hoax? by Nidra Poller, Wall Street Journal Europe, May 27, 2008 (about the Al-Dura affair & libel suit)
The PR war: Stumbling around in the darkness by Calev Ben-David, Jerusalem Post, January 22, 2008 (“[T]he current conflict with Palestinian extremists is an “information war” being fought on the battleground of the international media and other forums of global public opinion.”)
New York Times 6-month Study, HonestReporting.com, November 21, 2007 (also available: PDF version)
The Media’s War on Israel by Mitchell Bard, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 24, 2007
The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media As A Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict, by Marvin Kalb, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, February 2007 [pdf]
Resources
- “Big Lies” (Honest Reporting interactive online presentation)
- Committee for Accuracy in Mid-East Reporting (CAMERA)
- The Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center
- HonestReporting
- The Second Draft
- Honors Thesis: “Media Partisanship and Bias in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict“
Anti-Israel Perspectives
- Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
- If America Knew: What every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine
- Palestine Media Watch
