Just like their counterparts at Roya TV and al-Jadeed, Vice Arabia reporters regularly refer to Israel in general, not just to the military authorities controlling the occupied territories, as “
the Israeli occupation” or “
the occupation state,” and delegitimize the country by placing scare quotes around “
Israel.” In addition, interviewees consistently espouse a very narrow set of anti-Israel opinions and refer to the country as “
the Israeli enemy,” “
the Israeli imperialism,” “the occupied Palestinian interior” (
here here), as well as the all-time favorite: “
the Zionist entity.” Anti-Israel pundits enjoy a pass from Vice hosts who fail to challenge them. Op-eds by Vice Arabia journalists
regularly espouse the same hostile anti-Israel worldview.
Vice Arabia’s clear bias is also evident in its references to Israel’s internationally-recognized territory inside the 1949 ceasefire lines as “
the occupied interior,” “the 1948 occupied territories” (
here and
here) or “
the 48 territories.” Its reporters regularly claim that internationally-recognized Israeli territory is currently under “
more than seventy years of occupation.” They also vilify Jewish communities inside internationally-recognized Israeli territory as “
settlements” and their
residents as “
settlers.”
Moreover, Vice Arabia mislabels Israeli localities (of Jewish, Arab or mixed heritage) inside Israel’s internationally-recognized boundaries, including the Galilee, the Negev, Haifa, Caesarea, Lod, Beit She’an and others, as “
Palestinian” and falsely places them in “Palestine” (
here and
here) or “the Palestinian interior” (
here,
here,
here and
here). Vice Arabia also
uncritically featured maps which erase Israel from existence, whitewashing Palestinian self-determination efforts which seek to replace Israel as opposed to coexist alongside it.
In a particularly striking case, a June 7. 2021 Vice Arabia
Op-Ed by Adam Haj Yahya began (“Jerusalem, Gaza, the [West] Bank and the Interior – How did all Palestinians unite to combat imperialism and displacement”):
(full article online)
While Vice has done an exemplary job shining light on problems with antisemitism at Deutsche Welle Arabic, hateful anti-Israel content continues to fester at
www.camera.org