Jerusalem, a documentary that purportedly portrays the events in eastern Jerusalem over the previous three weeks. Within 24 hours, the video garnered over a million views on YouTube. While
Vice promoted it as “one of the most comprehensive reports from [the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of] Sheikh Jarrah and Al Aqsa,” this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Almost every other sentence uttered by
Vice‘s reporter on the ground, Hind Hassan (formerly of
Al Jazeera), is missing crucial facts and context, or contains falsehoods. Below, HonestReporting dissects
Vice‘s three most blatant breaches of journalistic standards:
1. Turning a Blind Eye to Palestinian Violence
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When the Israeli government describes the conflict over the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem as just a "real-estate dispute," it has a point. - Sheldon Richman for Antiwar.com Original