Avi Shlaim

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...

June 9, 2015

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

Visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page on June 1st were presented with an article...

July 30, 2014

CiF Watch prompts 3rd correction over false claims that murdered Israeli teens were 'settlers'

Since Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel were abducted and murdered by Palestinian terro...

January 12, 2014

Multiple breaches of editorial guidelines in Sharon report by BBC’s Paul Adams

Like the rest of the media, the BBC has had ample advance time in which to prepare parts of its cove...

October 14, 2013

BBC R4 presents jaundiced account of San Remo conference

BBC Radio Four is currently running a series called “Terror Through Time” presented by F...