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HonestReporting (also Honest Reporting or honestreporting.com) is a watchdog organisation that monitors the media for what it considers bias against Israel. The organisation has affiliates in the United States, UK, Canada, Italy, and Brazil.
stReporting was founded by a group of students in England in 2000 with the assistance of Aish HaTorah
Aish HaTorah

Aish HaTorah is a Orthodox Judaism organization and yeshiva. Aish HaTorah, is a staunchly pro-Israel, Religious Zionism organization, that promotes Jewish pride and helps send young American Jews to Israel....
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Rabbi Ephraim Shore joined HonestReporting soon afterwards.






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HonestReporting (also Honest Reporting or honestreporting.com) is a watchdog organisation that monitors the media for what it considers bias against Israel. The organisation has affiliates in the United States, UK, Canada, Italy, and Brazil.

History

HonestReporting was founded by a group of students in England in 2000 with the assistance of Aish HaTorah
Aish HaTorah

Aish HaTorah is a Orthodox Judaism organization and yeshiva. Aish HaTorah, is a staunchly pro-Israel, Religious Zionism organization, that promotes Jewish pride and helps send young American Jews to Israel....
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Rabbi Ephraim Shore joined HonestReporting soon afterwards. In late 2001, Shore organized an independent USA board of directors and established HonestReporting as a registered non-profit 501(c)3 organization.

Activities


Film production

Honest Reporting, in addition to media watch activities, produced a documentary discussing the Arab-Israeli conflict in association with The Clarion Fund (which is headed by Ephraim Shore's twin brother Raphael Shore
Raphael Shore

Raphael Shore is an Canadian-Israelis film writer, producer, and Rabbi employed full time by Aish HaTorah. He is the founder of The Clarion Fund, a non-profit organization that seeks to advance the idea that the United States faces a threat of radical Islam....
.) This film was entitled Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East
Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East

Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East, also known as Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in Israel, is a 2003 documentary produced by the pro-Israel media watchdog group HonestReporting....
. . Recently, the same team produced a film titled Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West
Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West

Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, also called Obsession, is a controversial 2006 documentary film about radical Islamism teachings and goals which uses extensive Arab world and Iranian television footage....
. Honest Reporting's subsequent videos include What Really Happened?, which deals with the al-Durrah affair
Muhammad al-Durrah

Muhammad Jamal al-Durrah ) was a Palestinian people boy reported to have been killed by gunfire from the Israel Defense Forces during a clash between the IDF and Palestinian Security Forces in the Gaza Strip on September 30 2000, in the early days of the Second Intifada....
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See also

  • Honest Reporting Canada
    Honest Reporting Canada

    HonestReporting Canada is a Canadian media watchdog that monitors Canadian media coverage of Israel and the Middle East to promote what it calls balanced, accurate, and unbiased reporting....
  • Arab Media Watch
    Arab Media Watch

    Arab Media Watch is a London-based media watchdog organization with the stated aim of working toward objective British media coverage of the Arab world....
  • Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
    Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America

    The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America is a Boston, Massachusetts-based, 501 nonprofit, Israel lobby in the United States Watchdog journalism which was founded in 1982 to respond to alleged anti-Israel bias in The Washington Post....
  • Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
    Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

    Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting is a Progressivism in the United States media criticism organization based in New York City, founded in 1986....
  • MediaLens
    MediaLens

    Media Lens is a mass media analysis website based in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2001 to highlight "serious examples of bias, omission or deception in British mainstream media", with a strong focus on media generally thought of as objective or left-wing , and to encourage members of the public to challenge the relevant journali...
  • Media Matters for America
    Media Matters for America

    Media Matters for America is a 501 non-profit organization founded in 2004 by journalist and author David Brock. Media Matters for America describes itself as "a web-based, not-for-profit, Progressivism in the United States research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting Conservatism in the...
  • Media Watch International
    Media Watch International

    Media Watch International is a media monitoring organization founded by Sharon Tzur and based in New York. It describes itself as "an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing Israel's image by promoting accurate, impartial media coverage of, and providing timely, factual information about, Israel and the Middle East."...
  • Media bias
    Media bias

    Media bias is a term used to describe the reality and perception bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media, in the selection of which events will be reported and how they are covered....
  • Media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Jewish Internet Defense Force
    Jewish Internet Defense Force

    The Jewish Internet Defense Force is an online organization that seeks to remove material from the Internet which its members believe promotes or praises Islamic terrorism and Ethnic hatred, in particular on sites they deem to be Antisemitism and anti-Israel in nature....

External links

  • Honest Reporting's weblog:
  • : the official UK affiliate
  • : the official Canadian affiliate
  • , which reports critically on HonestReporting
  • by David Leigh
    David Leigh

    David Leigh is a British journalist, author and editor. He has been one of Britain's leading Investigative journalism since the 1970s, and with his 1988 book The Wilson Plot he did much to increase public interest in Harold Wilson conspiracy theories by the British security services and others to destabilise Harold Wilson's government in...
     in The Guardian
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    , criticizing HonestReporting
  • to the "Media manipulators" article, at aish.com
  • Alexa.com for HonestReporting.com