While Haaretz does have some quality journalism it also has an editorial policy to give voice to a wide spectrum of opinion even when that opinion reaches the extremist nut job end of the spectrum. This is the tree which Israel haters cherry pick from and one of the reasons that it has an insignificant readership among average Israelis. The target audience for the English version is not the same as that for the Hebrew one and that is reflected in how, very often, facts are presented in ways that distort the truth of the story they are telling. See: Haaretz, Lost in Translation