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Analyzing Casualty Numbers, NYT Ignores Hamas Call for Duplicity

In a piece meant to be an in-depth examination of casualty claims, The New York Times explains that Palestinian NGOs get some of their data from doctors, but fails to remind readers of Hamas's instructions that Palestinians lie about civilian casualties.

Fool Me Twice: CNN Falls for False Casualty Numbers

When Nabil Shaath tells Wolf Blitzer that 700 women, children and elderly civilians have been killed in Gaza. CNN's failure to fact-check this egregious falsehood means the network's viewers are misinformed.

New York Times Stumbles on Human Shields, Occupation

The newspaper of record places Israel on the border between Gaza and Egypt, ignores prominent legal scholars on Gaza "occupation," and seemingly invents an authoritative legal definition of human shields.

WSJ Reporters Delete Twitter Posts Implicating Hamas

For the second time in a week, Wall Street Journal reporters deleted Twitter posts that might make Hamas uncomfortable. If the censorship can be understood as a necessary evil to keep reporters safe, the refusal of editors tell readers they aren't getting the full story is unjustifiable.

Robert Mackey Pulls New York Times to Extremes of Bias

Thanks to its partisan journalist Robert Mackey, The New York Times is loaded with the type of extremists who cheer the death of Israelis, rant about the "Zionist butcher regime," and call for Israel to disappear.

More Anti-Israel Bias from The New York Times’ Jodi Rudoren

A front-page analysis of Palestinian and Israeli societal attitudes by Jodi Rudoren provides an exemplar of how the newspaper inverts the truth, cherry-picks citations, omits relevant and crucial information to stack the deck against Israel and portray it as the primary culprit in the conflict.

Haaretz, Al Jazeera Go Racist

Even for Haaretz, which is hardly known for nuanced and sober opinion pieces, Salman Masalha's bigotry reaches a new low. Meanwhile, at Al Jazeera English, a senior analyst instructs a Jewish journalist to show some "Jewish humility."

NY Times Transfers Jerusalem Land to Palestinians

The New York Times isn’t waiting for negotiations to sort out complex questions about Jerusalem. It already has all the answers — for example, that Atarot in northern Jerusalem must belong to the Palestinians. (Updated: NY Times corrects.)