Haaretz global editor Noa Landau's caricature of American Evangelical Christians is heavy on gloating, strawman arguments and fabrications. Given both Evangelical and Israeli enthusiasm for the Abraham Accords, Landau's argument that the Judeo-Christian radical right is threatened by warming ties with Muslim nations gets a reality check.
Haaretz promises its readers coverage which "challenges, clarifies, and refuses to simplify what shouldn't be simplified" on key issues like free speech in Israel and the facts on the ground in the regional conflicts. On both fronts, coverage continues to fall short. Will the paper clarify that Israel's High Court has ruled that the display of the Palestinian flag is not illegal?
Hagai El-Ad ignores critical parts of a 1949 speech by David Ben-Gurion, falsely alleging that Israel's first prime minister called for massacring the Arab population to ensure a Jewish majority.
If the Knesset passes a puppy-celebration day bill, half the press will call it the anti-kitten law, making it difficult to imagine Israel quietly accomplishing either of those things. So, the piece’s argument is already questionable.
UPDATE: Haaretz corrects after fallaciously reporting that "Israeli policy" deprives West Bank Palestinians of critical air-raid sirens. But the paper has yet to amend after falsely depicting the ban on prayers at Jerusalem holy sites due to Iranian attacks as an anti-Muslim move singularly affecting only that population.
Haaretz amends after publishing a headline which falsely implied Israel deported an American activist because she reported a car accident in which a Palestinian girl was hit. Buried in the article behind the paywall was the fact that the activist engaged in an altercation with the driver.
In the selective memory of Haaretz's Hanin Majadli, incitement to terrorism is the "right to tell a story" and arch-terrorist Yahya Ayyah is relieved of his bloody record.
A Jan. 2 Op-Ed in which former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert blames Israel for attacks on Jews worldwide is the new year's first chilling validation of the fact that Haaretz does not combat antisemitism. It fuels it.
In a promotional letter to readers, Haaretz English edition editor Esther Solomon provides an otherwise compelling account of antisemitism from the two political extremes. She then urges readers to support Haaretz as a means to squelch wildly inaccurate reporting and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. It's almost as if she hasn't read her own paper, a publication favored by anti-Jewish bigots like Candace Owens.
In an innovative falsehood, Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken invents that United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803, adopted last November, is "identical" to Security Council Resolution 2334, adopted in 2016. Aside from the fact that they both address Israel and the Palestinians, they are otherwise completely different.
