Honest Reporting catches Molly Moore of the Washington Post promoting an anti-Israel fasehood: Molly Moore’s Narrow Turnstile.

The Israeli military, like its American counterpart, has recently faced public scrutiny for alleged ethical violations. When reporting such allegations, the media can play a constructive role by conveying information in a balanced manner.

But much of the media coverage of alleged IDF wrongdoing does not meet that standard of objectivity. Rather, media outlets often take a tendentious line against the IDF by (1) omitting essential context for IDF actions, and (2) treating accusations of wrongdoing as accepted fact.

Case in point: A Nov. 29 front-page Washington Post article by Molly Moore addressed alleged IDF abuse, describing checkpoints as:

concrete lanes resembling cattle shutes… [Palestinians] jammed against a narrow turnstile… a thin man… gripping his whimpering child by one arm…

At least 83 Palestinians seeking medical care have died during delays at checkpoints, according to the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.

But as media monitor EyeOnThePost found, the report that Moore cites (itself emerging from a dubious source) does not in fact claim that this number of Palestinians died ‘during delays at checkpoints.’ Rather, the PHRMG report contains a list of 83 deaths:

anecdotally associated in any imaginable way with checkpoints and not necessarily by virtue of any delay in seeking medical care.

For example, the PHRMG list includes a 78-year-old man who ‘died at al-Hamra military checkpoint in the Jordan valley, coming back from Jordan,’ and a 25-year-old Gazan who died ‘as a result of being shot at by an Israeli tank.’ The first death was likely from natural causes, and the second was clearly due to armed conflict. Neither appears due to ‘delays at checkpoints,’ as Moore states.

Major media outlets such as the Washington Post should know by now that Palestinian spokespeople have a record of fabricating Israeli ‘outrages.’