BBC Arabic’s fabricated ’dual narrative’ story about alleged Israeli war crimes
Written by CAMERA Arabic, with thanks to Dr. Yagil Henkin and CAMERA advisor Dr. Meir Masri for their help. All translations, emphases and in-bracket…
Nazi analogy
Economist promotes “eloquent critic” of Israel’s existence
An Economist article (“Why Israel is becoming a partisan cause in the United States”, April 27), in attempting to contextualise American progressives’ putatively increasing…
Guardian op-ed calls terrorists who murder Israelis “political prisoners”
A Guardian op-ed characterised Palestinian terrorists who’ve murdered Israeli citizens as “political prisoners”. The piece (“Israeli settlers on the rampage isn’t a shock –…
Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part two
In part one of this post we discussed an interview with the Palestinian Authority’s representative in the UK, Husam Zomlot, which was aired on…
UK newspaper apologises for antisemitic letter
Last week, we published a post criticising an appalling letter to theeditor published in the print edition of The Journal – a newspaper based in…
BBC One’s ‘Panorama’ on Labour antisemitism raises another issue
John Ware’s documentary is a welcome step but the BBC needs to put its own house in order too.
Guardian trots out Ronnie Kasrils to (‘as a Jew’) smear Israel as an “apartheid” state
Whilst it’s not fair to label most Guardian journalists and editors antisemitic, one thing seems certain: Their obsessive criticism of Israel day in and day out, characterising the state as not only flawed but as some sort of organic obstacle to peace and progress, reinforces in the minds of those already prone to such thinking the idea that the Jew indeed remains “humanity’s greatest problem”.
Political narrative and inaccuracy in BBC Two’s ‘Alternativity’ – part two
BBC Two’s ‘Alternativity’ is an exercise in the promotion of a partisan narrative.
The BBC and the ‘apartheid’ smear
BBC audiences are no strangers to unchallenged multi-platform amplification of the ‘apartheid’ smear against Israel. For example, in November 2012, listeners to BBC Radio…
British gov’t: Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination is antisemitic.
This morning, multiple news outlets reported that the British government will adopt the Working Definition of Antisemitism. Downing Street said that the WD would assist “in efforts to fight hate crimes and incitement targeting Jews” and by ensuring that “culprits will not be able to get away with being antisemitic because the term is ill-defined, or because different organisations or bodies have different interpretations of it”.