France 24 Arabic Adds “Expulsion” Error to AFP Report
France 24 chose to make Agence France Presse's reference to Palestinian refugees less accurate, changing “emigrate/displaced" to "expelled."
CAMERA Arabic
Reuters Casts Tel Aviv as Palestinian Arab City of Tel ar-Rabeea’ Pre-1948
After Reuters misrepresented the Jewish city of Tel Aviv as an Arab city prior to 1948, editors improved the more problematic Arabic article but declined to clarify in English. Meanwhile, Ynet commendably corrected while The Jerusalem Post failed to do so.
Mixed Arab-Jewish Haifa, Lost in AFP’s Arabic Translation
AFP's Arabic service offers up a unique and misleading description of Haifa, dubbing it "the Arab mixed city in the north," ignoring 75 percent of the city's population, which is Jewish. The news agency's English article, in contrast, accurately describes Haifa as "the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Haifa in northern Israel."
Sky News Arabia Falsely Claims Beitar Jerusalem Was ‘Jews-Only’
Coverage of Jerusalem Beitar soccer team is often plagued by double-standards, with misleadingly draw broad conclusions about Israeli society based on the behavior of one team and some of their fans. Sky Arabia goes one step further, falsely charging that for years the team has been Jewish-only.
Sky News Arabia Report on Golan Druze Elections Riddled With Distortions and Falsehoods
Sky News Arabia's shoddy coverage of elections in the Golan Heights' Druze towns mirrors the type of anti-Israel propaganda rampant in the Arab media and reflects a disregard for basic journalistic standards which casts a shadow on its London-based parent.
Deutsche Welle Arabic Anchorwoman on Palestinian ICC Move: A Step “We Have Been Waiting For”
In a gross violation of journalistic ethics and the network's own published guidelines against editorializing in news stories, Deutsche Welle Arabic television anchorwoman Dima Tarhini editorialized that Palestinian moves against Israel at the International Criminal Court is "a step we have been waiting for a long time."