The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158999   Message #3767539
Posted By: Jim Carroll
23-Jan-16 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Terrorism, Again (Israel)
Subject: RE: BS: Terrorism, Again (Israel)
Your link comes from Honest Reporting Brucie - nowhere does is answer a single point I have raised -
The only thing I have put up from the Independent is Obama's statement - are you claiming it is faked - love to know!!!!
We seem to have an odd mixture of Trappist Monks on a vow of silence and headless chickens running around looking for something to smear all critics of the Israeli regime with.
Have any of you got anything to say about my analysis (not forgetting the information I put up to back it up, of course)apart from Keith's old usual "its's all lies" that is?
Pathetique - as Beethoven put it.
Jim Carroll

HonestReporting (also Honest Reporting or honestreporting.com) is a pro-Israel,[1][2] non-governmental organization that monitors the media for what it perceives as bias against Israel.[3] The organization has affiliates in the United States, UK, Canada, Italy, and Brazil.
Criticism[edit]
The American Journalism Review described the organisation as a "pro-Israeli pressure group".[6]

After being criticized by HonestReporting for articles published by The Independent, author Robert Fisk wrote in the Independent that some of their readers sent him hate-mail.[7]

Following a 2004 article published in the British Medical Journal which criticised Israel for a high level of Palestinian civilian casualties and claimed that the pattern of injuries suggested routine targeting of children in situations of minimal or no threat, the journal received over 500 responses to its website and nearly 1,000 sent directly to its editor. In an analysis of the responses published in the journal, Karl Sabbagh concluded that the correspondence was orchestrated by Honest Reporting and aimed at silencing legitimate criticism of Israel. In his analysis Sabbagh pointed to evidence that that the correspondents had not read the article. Sabbagh also documented a significant proportion of offensive, abusive and racist insults among the correspondence. An editorial by the BMJ referred to the campaign as bullying and said that the best way to counter such behaviour was to expose it to public scrutiny.[8][9] Daniel Finkelstein, associate editor of The Times, responded that Sabbagh's piece was "anti-Israel propaganda" that did not meet even "basic academic standards" of scientific analysis.[10]