The Guardian Weekend Magazine published a map under the title 'Welcome To Northern Israel' depicted a map of Israel encompassing the whole of historic Palestine including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
As part of Israel's Ministry of Tourism systematic campaign of distorting facts, the misleading map implies that the entire area is Israel and that the Occupied Palestinian Territory including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem are part of Israel.
Campaigns
Israel denies its Occupation of the Palestinian Territory
- 07 December 2011
Does the BBC really believe the death of Palestinians is worth less than rocket damage to an Israeli house?
- 15 April 2011
Since the beginning of 2011, Israel has killed 49 Palestinians in Gaza, seven of them children.
These were the grim figures as of 10th April, and with April only just beginning, worked out at a rough average of 14 dead Palestinians a month.
Yet, on the morning of 11th April, BBC Radio 4's Today programme carried a report which began with the words: 'In the last four days, there's been a flare up of violence in and around the Gaza Strip', an introduction which wilfully ignored the fact that Israel had been pounding Gaza from land and air since March. It also failed to take into account that violence against Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, as demonstrated by the high death toll, is continuous and ongoing, and not limited to the occasional 'flare up'. The presenter went on to make the unqualified and one-sided statement: 'It started with a missile attack on an Israeli school bus'.
Keeping an eye on the Media
- 07 February 2011
How you can monitor and respond to unbalanced coverage of the Occupation
The cause of justice for Palestine is growing rapidly in the UK, and it is vital that programme makers, not just politicians, realise that they will be held to account if they do not portray the situation fairly and accurately.
If you see a programme, or hear a radio broadcast, that you feel is unbalanced or biased in its portrayal of the Palestinian issue, either proactively or through its omission of key facts or context, please consider contacting the programme makers to make a complaint.
