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Bethlehem – Abusing the Christmas Story
In a tasteless affront to one billion Christians worldwide, The Independent, a leading British daily, describes the Virgin Mary as a “Palestinian refugee in Bethlehem”, and present-day pregnant...
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The Stench Spreads: Johann Hari’s Stinking Op-Ed
The following communique was released by HonestReporting UK earlier this week in response to an appalling op-ed by Johann Hari published in The Independent. Since then, Hari’s piece has spread through...
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Hari Seeks to Smear HonestReporting
HonestReporting critiqued Johann Hari’s op-ed in the Independent, systematically exposing the many distortions, omissions and Hari’s reliance on fringe revisionist sources and individuals. We even...
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Revising History: NY Times Op-Ed Promotes Pappe
The past few weeks have witnessed a deluge of articles, op-eds and features surrounding the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence. Many of these have focused not on Israel itself but on the...
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More Smears By Hari
HonestReporting isn’t very popular with Independent columnist Johann Hari who prefers to attack us rather than address his one-sided opinion pieces. At the risk of being accused again by Hari of...
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Dishonest Reporting ‘Award’ 2008
Operation Cast Lead illustrates the futility of understanding ongoing events in the context of artificially set boundaries in time like ”January 1” or ”December 31.” A simpler way to make sense of the...
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Johann Hari: Back With a Vengeance
The Independent’s Johann Hari will always be remembered as the columnist who compared Israel to excrement. Rather than answering the various libels and misinformation contained in his articles, Hari...
View ArticleHari Spreads More Filth About Israel
Johann Hari, a writer for The Independent, should be a familiar name to HonestReporting subscribers. Having compared Israel to excrement in 2008, Hari then launched an attack on HonestReporting,...
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Are Johann Hari’s “Intellectual Portraits” Plagiarism or Lip-Synch Journalism?
Johann Hari Johann Hari’s accused of plagiarism, which has British bloggers poring over his interviews with a fine-tooth comb. The results so far ain’t good. Brian Whelan, for example, randomly chose...
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Johann Hari Apologizes for Fauxtable Quotables
The Independent’s Johann Hari apologized for taking liberties with the way he quoted people he interviewed It’s clearly not plagiarism or churnalism – but was it an error in another way? Yes. I now see...
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Hi Ho Hari: Plagiarizing Columnist Suspended
HonestReporting and Independent columnist Johann Hari have something of a history: In 2008, Hari compared Israel to excrement: ““Whenever I try to mouth these words [of reassurance for Israel], a...
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Johann Hari to Be Stripped of Orwell Prize
Now the Orwell Prize people are piling on Johann Hari. The Independent’s columnist was stripped of his 2008 award in the wake of plagiarism accusations. According to the Daily Telegraph, the Orwell...
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The Independent Admits Robert Fisk Story Was False
The following correction has been published in The Independent relating to an article by Robert Fisk on the Arab Spring: In his Friday essay on 15 April 2011 (“The Arab Awakening – a long time coming”)...
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UK Riots Expose Media Muck
The riots afflicting London and other parts of the UK have made headline news around the world. What has this got to do with coverage of the Middle East however? Often, anti-Israel bias or activism is...
View ArticleJody McIntyre Dumped by HuffPo and Channel Four
It just gets worse for Jody McIntyre, the anti-Israel activist fired from his blogger position at The Independent over tweets inciting UK rioters. In an interview with the Huffington Post, McIntyre was...
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Johann Hari Apologizes, Takes Leave From Indy
Johann Hari apologized for the way he handled interview quotes. Unlike his previous apology, Hari also says he’s taking an unpaid leave of absence from The Independent to brush up on Journalism 101,...
View ArticleWhere’s Our Apology From Johann Hari?
On September 15, Johan Hari, a journalist for the UK’s Independent, published a “personal apology” following the exposure of his widespread plagiarism and dishonest journalism. It included the...
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2011 Dishonest Reporting Awards
It has been a year of big stories – Gilad Shalit, the Israel-Turkey meltdown, and the Palestinian statehood bid – all taking place against the backdrop of the Arab Spring and Iran’s atomic urgency. We...
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