AFP Captions Cut Terror Groups Out of the Picture
This week, both Hamas in Gaza and Fatah's Tanzim in the West Bank benefit from what is apparently AFP's equal opportunity tilt in the service of terror groups.
SIPA USA, Raw Anti-Israel Incitement in Real Time
Sipa editors in New York and Los Angeles apply zero editing to material from contributors in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, resulting in anti-Israel fabrications that incite and have no resemblance to professional journalism.
AFP Misleads on ‘Newly-Established’ Eviatar
Agence France Presse captions misleadingly refer to Palestinian protesters' proximity to "the newly-established Israeli wildcat settler outpost of Eviatar," without giving any indication that the outpost was fully evacuated a week earlier.
Music Magazine Continues to Prove It Can’t Keep Up in The Middle East
The partially Saudi-owned publication Rolling Stone once again displays its bias with both a slide show feature and a "news" article.
Fox News Falsely Alleges Photo Depicts ‘Confined’ Palestinian Children ‘Behind Bars’
Fox News' repeated misidentification of a 2010 photograph of Palestinian children lined up at a soup kitchen fuels false propaganda about "Palestinian kids in cages."
Reuters Caption Alleges Anger Over Balfour Declaration Is Anti-Trump Sentiment
A Reuters caption accompanying a photograph of shoes embellished with the words "Trump" and "Balfour" in Arabic claims that the words express the Palestinian shoemaker's anger against President Trump's policies, ignoring that "Balfour" expresses anger at Israel's very existence.
Daily Beast Passes Off Demonstrator as Foreign Journalist
The Daily Beast conceals that the subject of a prominent photograph accompanying a story about police attacks on foreign journalists at anti-Netayahu protests is a demonstrator, not a foreign journalist.
AFP Reports Disputed Claim About IDF’s Use of Live Fire as Fact
UPDATED: AFP amends multiple captions which had stated as fact that the Israeli army fired live ammunition during a clash in Nablus despite the fact that Palestinian witnesses and the Israeli military agree that only rubber bullets and tear gas were used.
Did Media Pass Off Palestinian Rocket as Israeli Missile?
The New York Times runs a front-page AFP photo of a projectile over Gaza City, identifying it as an "Israeli missile." The founder of Israel's missile defense program says the projectile resembles a Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli missile.
AFP Caption Whitewashes Islamic Jihad Terrorist
An Agence France Presse photo caption whitewashes an Islamic Jihad terrorist killed while he was reportedly preparing to fire rockets at Israel, saying only that Mohammed Hamuda was a Palestinian killed in an Israeli air strike.