BBC Arabic film on collaborators promotes Hamas messaging – part two
A BBC Arabic English language programme about collaborators in Gaza ignores Hamas’ extra-judicial executions.
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BBC Arabic film on collaborators promotes Hamas messaging – part one
A BBC Arabic English language film tells a one-sided story.
Guardian op-ed refers to Ahed Tamimi as a “political prisoner”
The suggestion that Tamimi, who was arrested for assaulting an Israeli soldier and for incitement, by endorsing (on video) armed “resistance”, is a “political prisoner” is beyond absurd. The term “political prisoner” is as codified as pertaining only to those detained in violation of “freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression and information, freedom of assembly and association”.
One month on BBC corrects inaccuracy regarding Israeli cabinet decision
The BBC News website corrects a month-old inaccuracy – but audiences will remain in the dark.
Guardian falsely suggests Haifa Arabs in 1948 faced “mass evictions” by Israeli forces
This conclusion that the flight of Arabs from Haifa was instigated by the Arab leadership, and not by the Hagana, isn’t just reached by Karsh, but by historian Benny Morris, and even radical anti-Israel historian Illan Pappe, who acknowledged that “Jewish troops had no clear intention of provoking an Arab exodus” and that “their military strategy was not calculated to produce such an outcome”.
Evening Standard omits fact that “acclaimed Palestinian writer” was also a PFLP terrorist
In addition to being an “acclaimed Palestinian writer”, Ghassan Kanafi was also a high-ranking member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group. Kanafi was the right hand man to the group’s leader George Habash and met with members of the Japanese Red Army who murdered 26 people in the Lod Airport Massacre in 1972.
Guardian opposed US attack on Syria in 2013; Now says inaction led to more bloodshed. Fails to admit error.
A recent Observer editorial is critical of Obama’s decision not to bomb Assad in 2013, but there is just one thing the editorial does not mention –that Observer editors, at the time, encouraged Obama NOT to take action.
CAMERA Arabic website launched
CAMERA’s new Arabic language media monitoring website goes live.
Serial BBC failure to report rocket attacks comes home to roost
The BBC – which last year ignored 86% of missile fire against Israel – pronounces the Gaza border ‘generally quiet’.
Media grossly misreport Iranian drone incident and crash of Israeli F-16 fighter plane
Guest post by Akus We have become used to the media misreporting events from Israel. However, the reports that followed the recent destruction of…