Sky News Arabia shoddy report on Druze elections in Golan is riddled with distortions and falsehoods

...Such shoddy journalism again indicates that Sky News Arabia appears more interested in joining its brethren in the Arab media by parroting anti-Israel propaganda than in engaging in well-sourced, professional reporting – a disregard for basic journalistic standards that also casts a shadow on its London-based parent.

UK Media Watch..
CAMERA Arabic..
06 November '18..

On Nov. 1, Sky News Arabia – a joint venture between the UK-based Sky News and Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation – published a report about local elections in the Golan Heights that’s riddled with errors and distortions.

The article focuses on Israeli municipal elections held on Oct. 30 in the four Druze towns in the Golan Heights, and the resulting protests and clashes they sparked. Below is a full translation of the original Arabic article, with the errors and distortions underlined.

GOLAN RESIDENTS CELEBRATE THE ‘FOILING’ OF ISRAELI ELECTIONS

The residents of the occupied Syrian Golan celebrated the foiling of the Israeli municipal elections, that were held in the territory on Tuesday for the first time since its occupation in 1967.

Israeli sources pointed out that participation rate ranged between 0% and 1.5%.

The Golan had seen a general strike, in rejection of the Israeli elections that were forced upon the residents who affirm their commitment to their Syrian identity, according to the official Syrian news agency ‘SANA’.

Demonstrations were also launched in the Golan villages on Tuesday, organized by activists who resist Israeli attempts of Judaisation.

The Israeli military [sic] used live ammunition and gas grenades to dissemble the sit-in that took place in the town of Majdal Shams, and several protesters were also arrested.

This is the first time the Israel Interior Ministry has decided to hold the elections in the four villages [towns] of the Golan Heights – Buq’atha, ‘Ein Qenya, Mas’adeh and Majdal Shams – however the candidates in Buq’atha and Mas’adeh had withdrawn from the elections due to threats by opponents, which brought about a cancellation of the elections in the two towns.

The six falsehoods in the report are as follows:

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Sky News Report - Poorly Worded and Misleads on Hebron Holy Site - by Simon Plosker

This Sky News report is poorly worded and deserves to be corrected.

Simon Plosker..
Honest Reporting..
09 July '17..






Sky News reports on the appalling and ridiculous UNESCO vote that declared the Old City of Hebron a “Palestinian World Heritage Site in Danger.” It reports:

Israel is particularly offended because there is an ancient shrine in the centre of the town: known to Jews as Tomb of the Patriarchs, and the second-holiest site in Judaism, and known to Muslims as Ibrahimi mosque.

The important religious site, which was built by Muslims in the 14th century, is believed to be the resting place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

To the uninformed, which would be the majority of the audience, the second line implies that the holy site was built by Muslims in the 14th century, when, in fact, the site dates back thousands of years prior to the building of a mosque. The way this story is worded erases this Jewish history and connection and makes casual readers believe that Jews and/or Israelis are claiming a Muslim site as their own.

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It All Started When Israel Went Looking for its Boys? Really?

...Unleashing military force on a political organization?! From this description, Rayner would have you believe that Israel has been targeting peaceful members of a human rights group rather than a terror organization. Perhaps some of those arrested may not wield the guns or build the bombs but this does not mean that Hamas apparatchiks are wholly innocent bystanders.

Simon Plosker..
Honest Reporting..
16 June '14..




Possibly some of the most cynical and downright ugly reporting on the kidnapping of three Israeli teens has come from Sky News. First the headline:

So according to this logic, it isn’t the kidnapping of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel that has sparked this crisis but Israel’s response. It all started when Israel went looking for its boys.

But this is only the beginning. The rest of Tom Rayner’s article cynically accuses the government of Benjamin Netanyahu of using the kidnapping to further its own political ends vis-a-vis Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Of course the kidnapping cannot be separated from the wider political situation. Rayner, however, appears to whitewash the nature of Hamas.

By taking out the Hamas leadership, through arrests in the West Bank, and through airstrikes in Gaza, they [the IDF] are pursuing two goals.The first, to strike a blow at the organisation’s ability to operate and emphasise its ‘terrorist’ character by the de-facto criminalisation of its detained members.

Airstrikes in Gaza over recent days have occurred as a direct response to Palestinian rockets fired at civilian targets. And rather than “taking out the Hamas leadership,” these airstrikes have targeted terrorist infrastructure sites rather than terrorist individuals from Hamas or any other terror organization.

As for “de-facto criminalisation” of detained Hamas members, what more does Rayner want to prove Hamas criminality or its “‘terrorist’ character?” Are suicide bombings, rocket and shooting attacks, not to mention kidnappings, not enough?

Furthermore, according to Rayner:

Making Hamas pay for a crime they’ve been accused of may make sense in the Israeli mind-set, but unleashing military force on a political organisation inevitably impacts the lives of civilians living in and around them.

Unleashing military force on a political organization?! From this description, Rayner would have you believe that Israel has been targeting peaceful members of a human rights group rather than a terror organization. Perhaps some of those arrested may not wield the guns or build the bombs but this does not mean that Hamas apparatchiks are wholly innocent bystanders.

From interviews with Palestinians protesting their innocence, to the description of the “illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba” with no qualifying statement, the accompanying video (the second video box on the right-hand column of the Sky News page) makes it clear where Rayner’s sympathies lie.

Indeed, throughout his report, Rayner has forgotten the most important part of this crisis – three Israeli boys have been kidnapped and the IDF is doing everything in its power to bring them home.

You can send your considered comments to Sky News – news@sky.com

Link: http://honestreporting.com/sky-news-it-all-started-when-israel-went-looking-for-its-boys/

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