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Adam Levick has served as managing editor of UK Media Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, since 2010.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum marking 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem on Jan. 23, 2020. Photo by Ronen Zvulun/REUTERS/Pool.

Journalists who ignore Palestinian anti-Semitism are guilty of shameful moral abdication.

January 26, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump at the Israeli-American Council National Summit on Dec. 7, 2019. Photo by Noam Galai/Courtesy IAC.

No, right-wing Jews aren’t ‘weaponizing anti-Semitism’

The lead drafter of the the IHRA Working Definition of Anti-Semitism attributes its inclusion in Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism to “right-wing Jewish groups,” but fails to explain support for the measure from the AJC and ADL, among others.

December 16, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

The hypocrisy of ‘The Independent’

The British online daily doesn’t hesitate to take Donald Trump to task for alleged anti-Semitic dog-whistle at the United Nations, but isn’t concerned about its own journalists’ blatant anti-Semitic language.

September 26, 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) being interviewed by Yahoo News on Jan. 30, 2018. Source: Screenshot.

‘Guardian’: Racism is behind criticism of Ilhan Omar

Being a Muslim woman of color and anti-Israel almost guarantees you sympathetic coverage.

February 18, 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)

‘The Guardian’ rushes to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar

It was her most recent tweet about AIPAC buying U.S. support for Israel that was the subject of an op-ed by Alex Kotch, an investigative reporter at a site called Sludge, who offered a full-out defense.

February 15, 2019

Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Feb. 24, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

‘Guardian’ hatred towards Israel reaches new low

We’ve been monitoring and commenting on the media group’s institutional hostility to Israel for nearly 10 years, and nothing much shocks us at this point.

January 24, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the funeral of former Israeli minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Arens at Savyon Cemetery, on Jan. 8, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

‘Financial Times’ Oslo obituary omits Palestinian rejection of peace offers

It was Palestinian leaders who, acting on their own free will, independent of what Israeli leaders did or didn’t do, “denied Palestinians a country to call their own”—an indisputable historical fact that’s continually obfuscated in British media about the conflict.

January 10, 2019

Media representative broadcast from the Israel-Gaza border on the second day of “Operation Protective Edge,” July 9, 2014. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘The Guardian’ falsely blames Israel for shortages of medicine in Gaza

Tellingly, the word “Hamas” isn’t used once in the entire article.

January 2, 2019

Steve Bell on British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s row with Benjamin Netanyahu. Source: “The Guardian.”

‘Guardian’ cartoon defends Corbyn; ties Netanyahu to white supremacy

Hours after British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn finally admitted that he did lay a wreath to honor terrorists responsible for the Munich massacre, The Guardian published a cartoon by Steve Bell and an op-ed by Owen Jones ardently defending him while smearing his critics.

December 27, 2018