Tamar Sternthal

Ha’aretz’s ‘Tailor-Made’ English Content Wrong Again

It's a new year, and Ha'aretz's English paper has a new look. But "tailor-made" content for English readers still means inserting false information. This time, Ha'aretz English falsely reports that Israel violated a court injunction by evacuating Palestinian activists.

Another Front-Page Gaffe at Ha’aretz

Weeks after Ha'aretz published, and then corrected, the wildly inaccurate front-page apartheid poll article, the English edition runs an egregiously mislabeled map and a tendentious headline. Where are the editors?

Sun Sentinel Columnist Gets Facts Wrong

Pierre Tristam gets a number of facts wrong in an op-ed published in Florida's Sun Sentinel. He falsely claims Gazans can't fish in the Mediterranean (they can) and that they cannot trade with the outside world. They do.

Updated: PBS Gaza Coverage Partisan, Shoddy, Unbalanced

PBS’ "Newshour" aired back-to-back stories about Gaza and Israel resuming normal life. The Gaza segment is filled with civilians and devastation. In contrast, viewers do not see a single Israeli victim of Hamas rockets, nor is there one shot of destruction in southern Israel.

Lost in Translation: Haaretz English Whitewashes a Stabbing

Ha'aretz's translators again downplay Palestinian violence, this time transforming the stabbing of Yael Shalom into an "assault," her 20-something-year-old Palestinian assailant into an "Arab teen," and one of his weapons, a crowbar, into a "stick."

NPR’s Leila Fadel: Israel Targeting Journalists

NPR's Leila Fadel, a victim of harassment by Egyptian authorities, raises the false charge of Israel targeting journalists. She states Israel "struck a media building," without noting that Israel hit equipment belonging to Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV and Al-Quds TV.

Updated: In Gaza, Macabre Manipulations of a Child Victim

Once again, media outlets categorically blame Israel for the death of a Palestinian child killed in "hotly disputed" circumstances. AFP and AP captions ignore information pointing to an errant Palestinian rocket as the culprit, and Reuters issues a commendable clarification.