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Media Not Entitled to Its Own Facts on Israel

Media Not Entitled to Its Own Facts on Israel
A woman from New York's Rockland County carries an Israeli flag during the annual Celebrate Israel parade Sunday, June 5, 2016, in New York City. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

By    |   Monday, 12 June 2017 12:58 PM EDT

While today's widespread use of the term fake news can be traced to Donald Trump’s first press conference as President-elect, Israel has long had to grapple with the phenomenon of media outlets bending the truth for political gain.

Indeed, the mainstream media blaming Israel for all the problems in the Mideast has only been exacerbated in recent years, with the explosion of social networks and other alternative online outlets. However, instead of just crying foul, organizations such as Israel's Tazpit Press Service (TPS) are providing real time, accurate and reliable news information for international media outlets seeking news coverage on Israel and the Mideast. "Foreign agencies come to Israel with their own perspectives. No one is completely objective," says Amotz Eyal, CEO and Founder of TPS, Israel's only press agency.

In contrast, TPS has, "Christians, Arabs, Druze and Jewish experts who provide accurate stories about Israel . . . Our goal is to expose stories that other services do not cover: not just terrorist attacks, but stories about the different communities in Israel," Eyal states.

Since being established in 2012, the agency has broken stories on a wide range of topics related to economics, security, politics, technology, scientific developments, agriculture and more.

As one of the featured guests at Breaking Israel News’ inaugural Prophecy in the News Conference, Eyal shared his thoughts on the journalistic double-standard permeating mainstream media's coverage of Israel. With regard to Reuters, the Associated Press and other leading wire services, the TPS CEO isn't worried in the least about taking on the industry's Goliaths. "We're not trying to compete by size, but rather by quality. We have 250 photographers all over Israel.

"We have more people on the ground here than any other service. As a result, we get to the stories more quickly than any other news agency."

Eyal's specific topic at the Prophecy in the News Conference, How We Change the Narrative about Israel, was one of the highlights of a gathering that explored the unique challenges and opportunities of reporting the news from a Biblical perspective.

Ironically, while such a journalistic approach is not considered mainstream, Rabbi Tuly Weisz, publisher of Breaking Israel News, notes that "half of the world recognizes that the Bible is both important historically and as a way to help us interpret today's events."

Similar to the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), Breaking Israel News is not afraid to connect current events to the Bible.

And while mainstream media pundits tend to portray evangelical Christians as irredeemably boorish, ignorant, racist and homphophic, the latter, not the former, actually represents today's mainstream.

As Rabbi Weisz states, "While the whole world was laughing at Donald Trump, we noted that our supporters took him seriously. The voice of the pro-Israel community is now in the establishment."

Both Eyal and Weisz are dedicated to supplying comprehensive media information to world media forums. The TPS approach is based on resilience, organizational flexibility and innovation, necessary for telling the "small stories coming out of Israel that can have global ramifications."

Meanwhile, Weisz and Breaking Israel News are working to have Christian news sites pick up news from Israel, with the goal of "pulling the camera further back, about 2,000 years back."

In recent months, there has been much discussion about fake news, particularly how it is spread and shared online and whether it influenced the recent presidential election.

However, in today's 24/7 reality, it's not enough to simply combat inaccuracies in the media after they have been written, posted, and distributed.

Organizations such as TPS and Breaking Israel News are in the vanguard of a movement to ensure that the truth about Israel, rarely pure and never simple, nonetheless gets told.

In a world of competing narratives, sometimes it helps to look to the numbers to understand how the once monolithic mainstream media is starting to fissure as a result of this push back. TPS distributes media material to over 180 leading media outlets around the world; Breaking Israel News is Israel's fifth largest English website — with more than 1.5 million monthly readers.

Long before the advent of the digital age, Mark Twain said, "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Today, unverified, false and prejudiced stories about Israel are increasingly being moderated, mediated and ameliorated.

While today's media elites are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts.

Gidon Ben-Zvi, former Jerusalem Correspondent for the Algemeiner newspaper, is an accomplished writer who left behind Hollywood starlight for Jerusalem stone in 2009. After serving in an Israel Defense Forces infantry unit from 1994-1997, Ben-Zvi returned to the United States before settling in Israel, where he and his wife are raising their four children to speak fluent English – with an Israeli accent. Ben-Zvi's work has appeared in The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, the Algemeiner, American Thinker, the Jewish Journal, Israel Hayom, and United with Israel. Ben-Zvi blogs at Jerusalem State of Mind (jsmstateofmind.com). For more of his reports —Click Here Now.

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