The Media Accountability Project  

"With all due respect Mr. Blaff, your article should be labeled as an opinion piece. The entire article is a transcript that regurgitates Mr. Levy’s talking points without any actual reporting, skepticism, or critical analysis. Mr. Levy, a former Israeli government spokesperson, has an obvious vested interest in spreading anti-Palestinian rhetoric. Interviewing someone who has called pro-Palestinian demonstrators 'rape apologists' makes me question the LFP’s journalistic integrity, and its adherence to the journalistic standards defined by the CAJ."

"AP is quick to label unconfirmed cases of chants calling for “death to Jews” as antisemitic, but will only refer to extremist Israelis chanting “death to Arabs” as nationalists or ultranationalists."

"It is certainly one thing to note Meir’s status as Israel’s first female Prime Minister and to call her an important person, but to promote such an adulatory, hagiographical view of her is simply dangerous. This is especially true as Israel’s occupation is increasingly being described as apartheid by international and Israeli human rights groups as well as leading figures of, and studies commissioned by, the United Nations."

"Readers deserve to know that Smotrich is openly intent on discriminatory hostility against Palestinian citizens of Israel. You should know, if you do not, that he has publicly said to Palestinian Arab members of the Knesset that they do not live in their homes by right but 'by mistake – because Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and throw you out in 1948.'"

"To treat Palestinians as a monolith who all “falsely blame Israel” is to defame all Palestinians as somehow engaged in the collective act of lying. Such slanderous sweeping generalizations have no place in fair and balanced media coverage."

"It is not enough to bury at the end of your article a reminder that “Ben-Gvir hung a portrait in his living room of a Jewish man who fatally shot 29 Palestinians in the West Bank in 1994.” The order, emphasis, and human texture of your material needs to reflect the facts."

"If Israel is to be considered a democracy, then it is a selective one at best, serving foremost the interests of its Jewish citizens, and purposely neglecting or repressing all others."

Your article should have gone further to mention some of the specific racist comments about Palestinians that he has recently made, including his statement that “there is no such thing as a Palestinian people” or calling for the “erasure” of the village of Huwara.

"The West Bank and East Jerusalem are widely (if not universally) considered occupied territory. Palestinians there live under Israeli military law and have no right to vote for the government that rules them."

"What’s alarming is not simply how far Ben Gvir is willing to go to block events that promote peace, it is that, despite all this, he has risen to one of Israel’s highest posts."