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In reply to the discussion: UN says Israeli tanks burst through gates of peacekeeper base [View all]Eko
(10,255 posts)25. Not sure Tablet is a good source of information.
Overall, we rate Tablet Magazine as right-center biased based on an editorial bias that moderately favors the pro-Israel nationalist right. We also rate them Mostly Factual in reporting rather than High due to the promotion of conspiracy theories despite a clean third-party fact check record
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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/tablet-magazine/
Tablet Mag is a news media source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Right.
Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Right display media bias in ways that moderately align with conservative, traditional, libertarian, or right-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Right bias is a moderately conservative rating on the political spectrum.
About Tablet Mag
According to its About page, "Tablet is a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. Launched in June 2009, its a project of the not-for-profit Nextbook Inc., which also produces the Jewish Encounters book series, edited by Jonathan Rosen. Our archive holds all the articles and features that originally appeared on the website Nextbook.org."
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/tablet-mag-media-bias
Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Right display media bias in ways that moderately align with conservative, traditional, libertarian, or right-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Right bias is a moderately conservative rating on the political spectrum.
About Tablet Mag
According to its About page, "Tablet is a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. Launched in June 2009, its a project of the not-for-profit Nextbook Inc., which also produces the Jewish Encounters book series, edited by Jonathan Rosen. Our archive holds all the articles and features that originally appeared on the website Nextbook.org."
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/tablet-mag-media-bias
As for their numbers being correct historically.
Historically, the Gaza Health Ministrys figures have been found largely accurate. News organizations, human rights groups, and international governments and bodies (including the United Nations) cite them in the moment; and human rights groups that have worked to verify the ministrys data in previous conflicts have found it generally reliable. Vox reports these figures, as it reports the Israeli governments stated death tolls.
Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch, which has been monitoring human rights abuses in Gaza for three decades, told the Guardian the group has generally found the data that comes out of the ministry of health to be reliable.
Historically in conflicts in 2008, 2014, and 2021 the health ministrys fatality numbers closely matched death tolls resulting from independent research by United Nations humanitarian agencies.
Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch, which has been monitoring human rights abuses in Gaza for three decades, told the Guardian the group has generally found the data that comes out of the ministry of health to be reliable.
Historically in conflicts in 2008, 2014, and 2021 the health ministrys fatality numbers closely matched death tolls resulting from independent research by United Nations humanitarian agencies.
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23940215/israel-palestine-gaza-hamas-death-toll-war-fatalities-verified-count-conflict
Prof Spagat has also looked back at previous conflicts, and found that health ministry figures in Gaza have held up under past scrutiny.
In an analysis of health ministry death figures from the Israel-Gaza conflict in 2014, in which Gaza was bombed, and a separate record of death figures from that same year collated by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, Prof Spagat found overall consistency in the reported figures.
The ministry of health said 2,310 Gazans had been killed in 2014, while B'Tselem counted 2,185 deaths. The UN said 2,251 Palestinians were killed, including 1,462 civilians and Israel's foreign ministry said the 2014 war killed 2,125 Palestinians.
In an analysis of health ministry death figures from the Israel-Gaza conflict in 2014, in which Gaza was bombed, and a separate record of death figures from that same year collated by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, Prof Spagat found overall consistency in the reported figures.
The ministry of health said 2,310 Gazans had been killed in 2014, while B'Tselem counted 2,185 deaths. The UN said 2,251 Palestinians were killed, including 1,462 civilians and Israel's foreign ministry said the 2014 war killed 2,125 Palestinians.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67347201
You can use statistics to prove or disprove pretty much anything you want. But you can believe a statistics guy who writes for a right leaning Jewish mag who doesn't know anything about how the casualties are reported or the history behind them. Ill go by history.
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The same organization that reports the Hamas Gaza Government's casulty reports at 100% fact
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2024
#1
That was not "their own investigation" - your own source is quite clear about that
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2024
#32
I guess Israel has the "right to defend herself" from the United Nations by gassing peacekeepers..
mountain grammy
Oct 2024
#2
"It did not say who fired the shells or what sort of toxic substance it suspected."
Beastly Boy
Oct 2024
#9
From Oct 8th to late September, Israel killed about 10 times as many in Lebanon as Hezbollah killed in Israel
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2024
#8
The only ones who can remove the Likud from the Govt. are the Israeli voters,
MarineCombatEngineer
Oct 2024
#15