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The Guardian got it wrong: Stephen Hawking is NOT boycotting Israel (Updated)
Last night, May 8, the Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood and Matthew Kelman ‘broke’ a story claiming that Stephen Hawking was joining the academic boycott of Israel, and that he was “pulling out of a...
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Update on Hawking story: Cambridge retracts statement denying boycott claims
Though original reports yesterday that Stephen Hawking cancelled his planned Israel trip in order to express support for the academic boycott were (as we reported earlier today) flatly denied by Tim...
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Guardian’s BDS promotion fails to tell readers what it really is
The Guardian’s coverage of Stephen Hawking’s decision to withdraw from a conference in Israel has so far included no fewer than eight items in three days. The initial report by Harriet Sherwood and...
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Guardian continues promotion of fringe BDS movement
On May 11th – three days after its initial publication of Stephen Hawking’s decision to pull out of a conference in Israel – we noted that the Guardian had already published eight items on the subject....
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Quick stats on the Guardian’s coverage of Stephen Hawking boycott story
The Guardian’s initial report that Stephen Hawking was boycotting Israel was published on May 8. The statistics in the first row in the table below were derived by a survey of the Guardian’s Israel...
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Guardian provides PR for failing BDS campaign against EU football...
The 2013 European Under-21 Football Championship (UEFA U-21) - hosted by Israel from June 5th through the 18th – represents the 19th staging of the event. National football teams from all over Europe...
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Guardian amends Antony Loewenstein’s false claim that Israeli group tried to...
In July we called out ‘Comment is Free’ contributor Antony Loewenstein (a self-described Anti-Zionist Jew) for promoting the lie – at this personal blog – that there are ‘Jews-only roads’ in Israel,...
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The Guardian is forced to correct a second false allegation by Antony...
Last week we posted about a Guardian correction to a passage in Antony Loewenstein’s Nov. 7 ‘Comment is Free’ essay (‘To support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is not antisemitic‘)...
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