Article Updated on March 22, 2009.
The Independent's refusal to correct its false contention that Jews are responsible for contaminating West Bank water provides an example of a major newspaper allowing its anti-Israel political agenda to trump factual reporting. 
New York Times' reporter Marlise Simons relies upon an anti-Israel activist to characterize Israelis in an article about attempts to charge Israelis with war crimes. But she is unsure Hamas rocketing of Israeli towns constitute a war crime. 
Israel claims nine terrorists and three civilians were killed by shells landing near an UNRWA school contradicting UNRWA testimony and media coverage that indicated 43 civilians were killed. 
UNRWA officials, John Ging (left) and Chris Gunness helped perpetuate the false story that Israel had shelled the Fakhoury UNRWA school in Gaza. Ging admits he knew none of the dead were on the school grounds.
How well does the media inform its readers on the changing economic status of the West Bank and Gaza ? 
Anna Baltzer is a relatively new anti-Israel agitator traveling the college and church circuit. Using her Jewish heritage as a moral lever, Baltzer shares anecdotes of Palestinian life while pushing standard anti-Zionist mythology. 
British columnist Johann Hari's writings on Israel reflect a worrisome trend of fabricating facts and misrepresenting the words of Israel's founders in order to demonize the Jewish state. 
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