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Adam Levick

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

Journalists who ignore Palestinian anti-Semitism are guilty of shameful moral abdication.
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.
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.
Being a Muslim woman of color and anti-Israel almost guarantees you sympathetic coverage.
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.
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.
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.
Tellingly, the word “Hamas” isn’t used once in the entire article.
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.
The OECD’s 2018 economic report on Israel confirms the NII’s conclusions, stating clearly that “in recent years, both gross and net income inequality have come down.”
If you were to believe the headline at “The Independent” (of a story cross-posted from “The Washington Post”), you would believe that CNN fired political commentator Marc Lamont Hill merely for criticizing Israel and calling for a “free Palestine.”
Readers aren’t reminded that Jewish Israelis are “barred from entering” Palestinian areas in the West Bank—meaning they are prohibited from using Airbnb rentals in those areas. Moreover, Israelis are excluded from entering 16 countries in the Middle East, barring them from renting Airbnb properties in these areas.