When HonestReporting was founded 25 years ago, it was clear that there was a need to expose and fight media bias against Israel.
But the extent of the libels the Jewish state would face could not have been dreamed of back then.
The international media spread – and in many cases invented – outrageous and destructive misinformation and disinformation.
HonestReporting was there to set the record straight.
This list of the 25 worst false accusations against Israel over the past quarter century was compiled with the help of veteran diplomats and journalists who dealt with them in real time. Please send us key incidents that could be added to the list.
Supporters of Israel can do their part to prevent – or at least combat the libels that are sure to come in the 25 years ahead.
Here they are in chronological order:
HonestReporting began its mission by taking on The New York Times over a photo it published of a young man — bloodied and battered — crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim — with the clear implication that the Israeli soldier was the one who beat him.
The effort to fix the incorrect reporting started with the boy’s father writing a letter to the Times, explaining the truth about his son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago who was pulled from his Jerusalem taxi by a mob of Arabs who beat and stabbed him. A half-hearted correction was issued...
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