The Staged Gaza Aid Video the Media Ignored
A staged Gaza aid video recently posted by analyst Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib shows a young boy being handed food, only to have it taken away seconds later. The scene is filmed, the food snatched back, and the men walk off. It has been widely shared online but entirely ignored by the mainstream press. No headlines. […]
Inadvertently sharing fake news
Like many others, I shared a video of Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan carrying a card saying, “The Butcher of Iran will not be missed.” Perhaps part of the reason the video did not arouse my suspicion is because I agreed with the act, I believed Erdan the kind of person who would […]
Poland? Making it seem the world is more pro-Hamas than it is
Preparing a collation of “X” posts about pro-Hamas demonstrations around the world, I added this one of Poland to the collection. But when I searched for pro-Israeli demonstrations for a separate collation, I realized there was something wrong. First let us look at the post uploaded by a Jordanian medical health professional (as per his […]
Masafer Yatta: How to Get the Most Punch out of B’Tselem Lies
It’s kind-of funny. It doesn’t matter what happens in Masafer Yatta, the area of the South Hebron Hills that has been in the news for almost a solid year. Whatever happens can be twisted into fodder for the anti-Israel propaganda machine generated most effectively by the European supported NGO, B’Tselem. Here I critique a video […]
i24 News: One Easy Way to Verify Trustworthiness of a News Story
Using Google to search for news reports of the latest incidents of alleged settler violence, I found a short list of recent articles, including one on i24 News. To my surprise, I discovered that sources supposedly supporting the claims of one of their articles were, in fact, about entirely different issues. There is no author […]
Jurassic Park Author Dedicated Entire Novel to Fake Media Before Fake Media was a Thing
In 1996, Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park, The Lost World and Andromeda Strain fame published a lesser known novel called “Airframe“. The novel is about an airplane failure that threatened to bring down an American airplane frame manufacturer even though the plane was proven to be safe. When a popular television programme of the “60 […]
Journalists, War Crimes, Fake News — Is There a Connection?
Fake news has become a “thing”. How can we know when we are being fed fake news? Especially when a particular journalist has a good reputation and the news outlet in which he or she publishes has a good reputation. Some people seem to think they have it all figured out — if you are […]
Industry of Lies: Answer to fake news and fake academia
The subject matter of this book can make your blood boil. But reading it made me smile. First of all, the title is quite unique in our contemporary world: Industry of Lies: Media, Academia, and the Israeli-Arab Conflict. Until the 1980s, the conflict was, indeed, called the Israeli-Arab conflict. Once the Arabs in Judea & […]