Removing Facts, Inserting Lies: Vice News Aired Palestinian Propaganda Masquerading as Documentary
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...