Honest Reporting

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Honest Reporting (also HonestReporting or honestreporting.com) is a watchdog organisation that monitors the media for bias against Israel. The organisation has affiliates in the United States, UK, Canada, Italy, and Brazil.

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[edit] Management

Rabbi Ephraim Shore (president) took over HonestReporting in 2000 after it was founded by a group of students in England. In late 2001, he organized an independent USA board of directors and established HonestReporting as a registered non-profit (501 (c) 3) organization. He is also a co-director of Hasbara Fellowships. Both HonestReporting and Hasbara Fellowships were launched by, or with the assistance of, Aish HaTorah.[1]

Joe Hyams (CEO) is a former strategic planner for London's oldest advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising (Tel Aviv).

Simon Plosker (managing editor) has worked for a variety of non-profit organizations, including the Board of Deputies of British Jews, BICOM, and NGO Monitor.

Yarden Frankl (senior editor) worked for ten years as a senior aide to Congresswoman Nita Lowey of New York and as the Strategic Affairs Lobbyist for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Pesach Benson (blog editor) is a former reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times.

Gary Kenzer (USA director) was formerly involved on the national level of grassroots organizations like American Friends of Magen David Adom[2] and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. He is the contact person for speaking engagements, fund-raisers and other US activities. [3]

[edit] Film production

Honest Reporting, in addition to media watch activities, produced a documentary discussing the Jewish-Muslim conflict. This film was entitled Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East. Interest in the video exceeded expectations and the documentary is now marketed independently of HonestReporting. Recently, the same team produced a film titled Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. Honest Reporting's latest video, What Really Happened?, deals with the al-Durrah affair.

[edit] On-line activism

Honest Reporting offers downloads of the Internet Megaphone. "You’ll be the first to know – and respond, to Media Bias, and Israel Activism issues as they occur – powered by Collactive." [4]

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