Al-Aqsa Mosque

October 21, 2020

BBC ignores Palestinian reactions to UAE visitors to Temple Mount

Last week we noted how BBC reporting on the Abraham Accords has concealed from audience view the mor...

October 14, 2020

5 Pillars corrects incendiary claims about efforts to ‘destroy’ Al-Aqsa

Earlier in the week, we posted about a patently false claim at the British Muslim site 5 Pillars, w...

October 11, 2020

5 Pillars accuses Israeli ambassador of promoting Al-Aqsa’s destruction

The ubiquitous accusation by Palestinians, their leaders and Islamist extremists across the globe th...

July 19, 2020

BBC News erases Erdogan’s al Aqsa remarks from Hagia Sofia story

Between July 10th and July 12th the BBC News website published three reports relating to the Turkish...

June 2, 2020

A BBC tale of two cities, two mosques and one country

On May 31st a report headlined “Coronavirus: Famous mosques reopen in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalemâ€...

March 27, 2020

BBC ignores PA double standards on Coronavirus related mosque closures

With BBC Jerusalem bureau coverage of the Coronavirus story having focused mainly on Bethlehem and t...

November 14, 2019

Independent Arabia evokes lie that Jews pray at al-Aqsa Mosque

Independent Arabia – a joint venture of the UK based Independent and the Saudi media group SRMG, w...

August 23, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....

June 10, 2019

Sky News Arabia’s Jerusalem: the sun shines, the wind blows and Jews ‘storm the mosque’

Little is new in Sky News Arabia’s world: the sun shines, the wind blows, and Jewish settlers "sto...

April 30, 2019

Times of London corrects claim Jews prayed in mosque, but other allegation remains

The revised article now asserts only that Jews entered the larger Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa compound, whi...