Feb. 1, The Jewish Chronicle–BBC Arabic features ‘expert’ who celebrated October 7
BBC Arabic has repeatedly interviewed a former PLO general who celebrated October 7 as a “heroic military miracle” and has fired artillery shells on “Zionist positions” from Lebanon, the JC can reveal.
Feb. 3, All Israel News–LISTEN: Interview about combating the delegitimization of Israel
Dr. Tricia Miller is the director of CAMERA’s Partnership of Christians and Jews. Dr. Miller speaks about working with Christians and helping combat the delegitimization of Israel. In particular, she discusses what is currently happening on college campuses in the United States.
Feb. 10, The Telegraph–What a Middle East owner does for a newspaper
It was a somewhat surprising report to read in a title with the Independent’s famous “eagle” logo sat above it. In a long-winded, turgid item, the report railed against Jews for running a “hidden empire” and possessing a “plan for a world takeover”. Loyal and right-thinking British readers of the Independent, the newspaper founded in the 1980s as a safe haven for liberal, independent thinking, were thankfully spared the diatribe.
Feb. 12, All Israel News–Can there be a decent pro-Palestinian left?
Balas Berkovitz, a research fellow of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, recently published a paper in the journal K titled “The October 7th pogrom as a non-event on the Western left,” delving into the disturbing phenomenon of the pro-Palestinian left’s silence, and even excuse-making, in the face of Hamas’s sadistic orgy of antisemitic violence.
Feb. 21, Algemeiner–‘Can a decent pro-Palestinian left exist?’
A recent Guardian column by Nesrine Malik (“In Gaza, there’s a war on women. Will the west really ignore it because they’re ‘not like us’?”) is typical of the outlet’s content over the past four months. Here, however, Malik is speaking as a woman who’s putatively particularly incensed by war crimes committed against her own sex — except, well, not quite.
Feb. 23, All Israel News–Guardian’s former chief editor; Hamas massacre “did not happen in a vaccum”
Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian’s chief editor from 1995-2015, published a column in the Independent (“The horrors of 7 October did not happen in a vacuum – so why has it become unsayable?“(Feb. 17). Leaving aside the curious fact that he didn’t publish it at his former outlet, the premise of his piece, that what he’s saying is “unsayable”, is patently absurd, as there has been no shortage of columns in the British media – particularly at the Guardian – making that case.
Feb. 23, The Jewish Chronicle–Disgraced journalist used by BBC
A journalist fired last summer by state-owned TV network France 24 after hailing Hamas attacks on Israel has since been appreaing on BBC’s Arabic channel, the JC can reveal.
Feb. 24, The Telegraph–BBC ‘aired social media posts by anti-Semitic users’
The BBC has been accused of allowing its Arabic channel to broadcast posts by social media users who praised Hitler and promoted conspiracy theories about Jews.
