Peres’ Funeral and his long-standing vision of a “new Middle east”
October 7, 2016 | Glen Falkenstein
Former Israeli Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres’ funeral in Jerusalem on Friday, September 30 was attended by world leaders past and present, including US President Barack Obama, former US President Bill Clinton and Britain’s Prince Charles.
Kudos to Channel 9 for a prompt correction
October 6, 2016 | Gareth Narunsky
Channel 9 Australia has demonstrated that editorial standards are still important, altering a story about a foiled terrorist stabbing after AIJAC pointed out several issues.
Part 1: Crossing Erez – Another Gazan smear of Israel from ABC’s McNeill
September 29, 2016 | Ahron Shapiro
Part 1 of 2: In 2011, Sophie McNeill said she wanted to be a journalist who reports stories from the perspective of victims in any conflict. As ABC’s Middle East Correspondent, that shouldn’t extend to uncritically echoing their political narrative.
Part 2: Crossing Erez – Another Gazan smear of Israel from ABC’s McNeill
September 29, 2016 | Ahron Shapiro
Part 2 of 2: In 2011, Sophie McNeill said she wanted to be a journalist who reports stories from the perspective of victims in any conflict. As ABC’s Middle East Correspondent, that shouldn’t extend to uncritically echoing their political narrative.
ABC’s McNeill vowed to be an advocacy journo, and she delivered
September 26, 2016 | Ahron Shapiro
Sophie McNeill’s decision to file virtually the exact story that she proposed in 2011 as an example of the sort of journalism she “want(s) to do” to promote her advocacy agenda, and her ABC editors’ decision to let her, stands as an indictment of the ABC’s ability to do its job in an impartial way as required by law.
PA again insists terrorist stabbers are “unarmed Palestinians” who were “executed”
September 23, 2016 | Gareth Narunsky
Following a period of relative calm over the last few months, eight attacks in five days last week shattered the illusion that the terror wave that began a year ago might finally be over.
Fatah uses controversial Australian cartoon by Glen Le Lievre to promote antisemitic conspiracy theories
September 23, 2016 | Glen Falkenstein
Fatah’s “Mobilization and Organization Commission” has re-publicised a controversial Australian cartoon drawn by Glen Le Lievre which originally appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald. Fatah’s implication is that Jews are in control of acts of terrorism and violence around the world. The infamous cartoon of a Jewish person with a large nose, wearing a Jewish skullcap, seated in an armchair with an emblazoned Star of David, causing violence with a remote control device, was published on that Commission’s website on Sept. 20 according to Palestinian Media Watch.
Palestinian feminists contest issue of election discrimination & textbook stereotyping
September 12, 2016
Female activists in the Palestinian territories have had a lot to be concerned about over the past few weeks. First, several Palestinian electoral lists refused to publish the names and pictures of female candidates contesting the municipal election (originally scheduled for October 8), instead referring to these women as the ‘wife of’ or ‘sister of’ Palestinian men. Then, the release of new Palestinian textbooks to be taught in the first and second grade was met with outrage for its portrayal of women as witches and sorceresses.
Setting the facts straight on Hebron
September 9, 2016 | Ahron Shapiro
Palestinian Embassy’s latest fact sheet on Hebron is interesting for the sources it quotes directly, the source material it distorts, and what facts it leaves out.
Settlement hype, not ‘activity’, reaches new high
September 7, 2016 | Ahron Shapiro
The significance of the issue of construction within Israeli settlements in the West Bank has long been overemphasised and exaggerated in international diplomacy, but White House and State Department criticism of Israel last week over construction in its West Bank settlements may just have set a new high-water mark for settlement hysteria.
