Al-Qaeda

November 17, 2020

BBC News uncritically amplifies Iranian government statement

On November 14th the BBC News website posted a report which amplifies Iranian government denials con...

March 22, 2019

Weekend long read

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

March 15, 2017

Confused and conflicting BBC reporting on Syrian jihadists

When the Syrian group Jabhat al-Nusra rebranded itself as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in late July 2016, th...

July 29, 2016

Is the BBC’s report of Jabhat al-Nusra ‘split’ from al Qaeda too simplistic?

Those visiting the BBC News website’s Middle East page on the morning of July 29th learned the...

May 16, 2016

Respected Mid-East analyst slams the Indy for publishing smear by Robert Fisk

Cross posted from Harry’s Place When The Independent went entirely online in late March, its r...

March 17, 2016

Babar Ahmad’s “ideal of jihad” is still a problem

Cross posted from the blog of the CST Babar Ahmad is a British jihadi who returned home to the UK la...

March 16, 2015

Shocker out of London! The Guardian refuses to endorse Bibi

Nobody even vaguely familiar with the Guardian Group’s animosity towards Israel’s prime ...

November 16, 2014

Guardian omits key context in quote by Israel spokesman about Mads Gilbert

Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian doctor, commentator and “radical Maoist politician” who openly su...

September 7, 2014

Daily Mail characterizes Israeli tourists at Syrian look-out point as "ghoulish"

Ghoulish: Morbidly interested in death or disaster  The Mount Bental Look-Out point in the Golan is...

August 28, 2014

Brits for the Islamic State: Guardian publishes two pro-ISIS letters

Based on a recent poll, 7 percent of residents in the UK support the barbaric jihadists of the Islam...