CAMERA photographs Palestinian private cars, taxis, buses, trucks and pedestrians on Route 505 in the West Bank, dubbed "an exemplary apartheid road -- for Jews only" by Ha'aretz's Noam Ben-Zeev.
In his article today about the allegedly peaceful and nonviolent Bilin demonstrations, Richard Boudreaux of the Los Angeles Times discounts the rock-throwers who have injured some 200 Israeli soldiers and border policemen.
The late Robert D. Novak was much-praised for his fact-based commentary. Yet his columns on Israel, U.S.-Israel ties and American supporters of the Jewish state amounted to a decades'-long, error-filled screed.
Edited for PBS' Wide Angle TV episode from the original German documentary "Das Herz von Jenin"
Produced and directed by: Leon Geller and Markus Vetter
English, German
52 minutesThe film tells a story about breaking down barriers between Palestinians and Jews, but it falls back onto the usual formula portrayal of callous Israelis and blameless Palestinians.
Again and again, Fox News' Reena Ninan promoted the false idea that, in Bilin, peace activists who do not throw stones face excessive force from Israeli troops. In fact, anti-fence activists there are known to throw stones, and Israel used nonlethal measures to disperse the demonstrators.
The Los Angeles Times today corrects one of three errors found in its coverage of the Pope's visit to Israel. The two omitted errors had been previously corrected by the paper back in 2003 and 2008.
Rev. Margaret Payne, bishop of the New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in New England recently misinformed the listeners of Interfaith Voices about the facts on the ground in Israel and the West Bank.
The Independent ran several columns expressing fury about the BBC Trust's ruling that Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen violated ethical guidelines — perhaps because the newspaper itself is guilty of the same sort of inaccurate, advocacy journalism.
Jimmy Carter noticeably toned down his rhetoric in his most recent book; but the text – an obvious attempt to sanitize Hamas’ hostility and violence – is still filled with errors of fact and marred by egregious omissions.