Avi Shlaim

October 6, 2020

REVIEWING BBC MIDDLE EAST EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS – PART THREE

Previously (see ‘related articles’ below) we have looked at two videos created by the BBC in 200...

September 10, 2020

Reviewing BBC Middle East educational videos – part one

In the context of the Coronavirus pandemic, the BBC’s educational department – BBC Teach –...

June 22, 2020

Guardian op-ed by Avi Shlaim rails against the ‘injustice’ of Israel’s founding

Anti-Zionist Israeli-British ‘historian’ and activist Avi Shlaim penned an op-ed in the ...

September 16, 2018

Guardian op-ed by Avi Shlaim on Oslo’s failure erases Palestinians entirely from the story

In over 1200 words of text in Shlaim’s column, there isn’t even once sentence so much as suggest...

September 17, 2017

BBC contributor on ME links up with UK Hamas supporters

An event run by a Hamas-linked group includes a speaker the BBC has consulted on ME related complain...

June 30, 2017

‘Historian’ Avi Shlaim goes to St. James’s Church in London to slam Israel’s creation.

Shlaim claimed that the "intrusion of a foreign entity in the shape of the Zionist movement showed a...

May 19, 2017

The Guardian’s “Long Read” on Israel – the Old Errors and Misrepresentations Rise Again

For some time I have sensed a gradual shift from articles that were in large part composed of or pro...

January 25, 2017

Unpacking Avi Shlaim’s claim in the Guardian that occupation is “the root of all evil”.

We have got so used to these extreme critiques of settlements, that we forget the basis on which the...

November 7, 2016

The BBC and the myth of the ‘twice promised land’

h/t SF In our recent review of BBC portrayal of the Balfour Declaration we noted that one of the bac...

June 10, 2015

BBC WS radio promotes Avi Shlaim’s historical misrepresentations – part two

As we saw in part one of this post, on May 31st Oxford professor Avi Shlaim appeared on the panel of...