Bladet Just Journalism har foretatt en undersøkelse av prestisjefylte London Review of Books og funnet at det gjennomgående gir en negativ fremstilling av Israel og ditto positiv av motstanderne. Perspektivet er konsekvent skjevt.

The findings show a starkly one-sided and fringe approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, funded by the British taxpayer for a decade. This in spite of the high profile awarded to Jewish and Jewish Israeli contributors, who authored more than half of the 92 articles published on the subject. Only one article, however, presented a mainstream Jewish or Israeli perspective.
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An advance copy of the report was submitted to London Review of Books Editor Mary-Kay Wilmers on Tuesday 9 November 2010 but as yet, Just Journalism has received no response.

Here are some responses to the report:

“This comprehensive report reveals a stunning one-sidedness in the London Review of Books on a hugely complex issue. There is no effort to showcase a range of views on Israel-Palestine or to take Israel’s legitimate security and political concerns seriously. But more revealing is how truly fringe the LRB’s conventional wisdom is on this issue. Hezbollah rockets raining down on Israeli towns are depicted as symbols of ‘consciousness-raising’ about the injustice of Israeli poverty. Overt comparisons are made between Israeli military policy and the Nazi Final Solution. Hamas is seen as a big-tent party of spiritual progressivism and not as a totalitarian, anti-Semitic terrorist organisation.”

Michael Weiss, Executive Director of Just Journalism

New Report: London Review of Books on Israel