June, 2016

June 7, 2016

Daily Mail caption refers to Israel’s security barrier as an “apartheid wall” (UPDATE)

A good illustration of how anti-Zionist agitprop seeps into mainstream news reports can be found in ...

June 7, 2016

Obscure slot for rare BBC report on Palestinian social issues

As we have often noted on these pages, the framing adopted by the BBC in its reporting on Israel and...

June 6, 2016

An attack on Holocaust memory at the Guardian and BBC

As noted by Melanie Phillips, author David Rieff wrote the following in an op-ed for The Guardian, ...

June 6, 2016

BBC uses coverage of attack in Jordan to promote politicised messaging

On June 6th the BBC News website reported an attack on security personnel in Jordan in an article ti...

June 6, 2016

How BBC Radio 4 squeezed Israel into programme on Irish history

h/t JG “Israel offers a florid illustration of how disastrously collective memory can deform a...

June 5, 2016

BBC News produces eight versions of report on three-hour Paris meeting

An article which first appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on June 3rd under t...

June 5, 2016

John Pilger in the Guardian: “Killing children seems like sport for the IDF”

John Pilger is an Australian-based Guardian contributor who’s arguably one of the most vocifer...

June 5, 2016

Dumbing down ME politics with BBC Monitoring

On June 1st the BBC News website’s Middle East page published a video by BBC Monitoring which ...

June 4, 2016

Yom Yerushalayim

Tonight and tomorrow Israel celebrates the reunification of Jerusalem on the 28th of Iyyar 5727 (Ju...

June 3, 2016

Weekend long read

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Professor Bernard Lewis, Mosaic magazine carries an essay b...