HonestReporting

HonestReporting (also Honest Reporting or honestreporting.com) is a pro-Israel,non-governmental organization that monitors the media for what it perceives as bias against Israel. The organization is a United States 501(c)3 registered charity headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, with its editorial staff based in Jerusalem, Israel. It has affiliates in the United States, UK, Canada, Italy, and Brazil.

HonestReporting (HR) was founded by British university students in 2000, during Yom Kippur, at the onset of the Second Intifada, which led to the death of hundreds of Israelis and thousands of Palestinians. HonestReporting's self-declared mission is to expose what its members consider bias against Israel in the western media.

In 2003, HonestReporting Canada (HRC) was founded as an "independent, non-profit organization" headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

In February 2006, HonestReporting was granted "independent Charitable Organization status in Israel to complement its US and Canadian status."

In March 2006, HonestReporting UK was launched by two expatriate Britons, CEO Joe Hyams, and Managing Editor Simon Plosker. In 2011, HR UK was later merged into the main HR.com site.

HR's self-declared mission statement claims that,

HonestReporting combats the false depiction of Israel in the media by challenging the biased coverage and demanding accountability. HR's mission is to educate the public about unfair media coverage of Israel and to empower the grassroots to respond in an effective manner.

Media critiques, commentaries, and action alerts hold the media to account and serve as direct communication with HonestReporting's readers.

A daily roundup of news and how the media is covering Israel.

HR runs two missions per year. These week-long educational seminars bring community leaders and advocates to Israel to learn first-hand about current events, hearing from high-level speakers and visiting places of interest.

HonestReporting, in addition to media watch activities, co-marketed a documentary discussing the Arab–Israeli conflict in association with former HR President Ephraim Shore's twin brother Raphael Shore. This film was entitled Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East. Independently of HonestReporting, the same team produced a film titled Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. HonestReporting's subsequent videos include What Really Happened?, which deals with the al-Durrah affair as well as many other short videos dealing with media bias issues and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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