did not respond to The Report’s repeated requests for comment. In a recent column, however, readers’ editor Chis Elliott acknowledged the use of anti-Semitic terminology in certain Guardian articles. “These included,” he wrote, “references to Israel/ US ‘global domination’ and the term ‘slavish’ to describe the US relationship with Israel.”"} 66:{"position":9,"content":"Journalists, the editor added, “have to be aware that some examples involve coded references. They need to ask themselves, for example, if the word Zionist is being used as a synonym for Jew.”"} 67:{"position":10,"content":"Bias against the Jewish state, say pro-Israel media watchdogs, comes in several forms – from purposeful slants to selective omissions, from subtle verbal cues to outright hostility."} 69:T4a9,Purposeful Slant: In its online country profiles during the run-up to the London Olympics, the BBC failed to list any city as Israel’s capital, yet declared “East Jerusalem” to be the capital of Palestine. “The BBC’s culture of political over-correctness often hampers impartial reporting on Israel,” says Hadar Sela, a British-born Israeli who runs the BBC Watch blog, adding, “The organization’s Editorial Guidelines prescribe that BBC journalists cannot describe Hamas as a terrorist organization or a bus bombing as a terror attack in the name of avoiding ‘value judgments.’” Selective omission: Foreign reporters routinely cite Israel’s “occupation” of Gaza, even though Israel unilaterally withdrew from the territory in 2005, uprooting all its settlements in the process. “Often the BBC omits relevant context that would help to accurately present Israel’s case,” says Simon Plosker, the Jerusalem-based managing editor of the influential media watchdog, Honest Reporting. “That matters because the British media has a global influence far beyond its size,

Watchdogs on the media battlefield

Pro-Israel media monitors are on a mission to keep the world's press on its toes