Bashar al-Assad

February 23, 2016

An award-winning BBC interview and a dictator’s legacy wish

Last week’s Royal Television Society awards ceremony for television journalism saw BBC News wi...

September 29, 2015

BBC does damage control after Bowen’s Assad advocacy

In an article titled “Bashar al-Assad is still the problem” which appeared recently in t...

September 27, 2015

Did Bashar al-Assad prompt a Guardian correction? Editors award Golan to Syria

A September 24th edition of the Guardian ‘Corrections and Clarifications’ included the f...

September 15, 2015

BBC News’ migrant crisis coverage: Bowen embeds with Assad

BBC News coverage of what it terms the “Europe migrant crisis” has recently involved sen...

February 11, 2015

BBC’s Assad interview and the ‘related articles’

Considerable efforts were put into the promotion of Jeremy Bowen’s interview with Bashar al As...

November 15, 2014

SOAS London event dispells 'simplistic' view that Hizbullah is a terror group

Cross posted from London-based blogger Richard Millett  To say that my question “Is this boo...

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 25, 2014

Guardian cartoon juxtaposes ISIS and Netanyahu

No, this is not, by a long stretch, the worst Guardian cartoon (Martin Rowson on the Bárðarbunga v...

October 3, 2013

Glenn Greenwald and the ‘anti-imperialist’ inspired indifference to antisemitism

As Charles Krauthammer argued recently about information from the latest International Atomic Energy...

September 8, 2013

Guardian publication corrects false claim that Israel used ‘chemical weapons’ in Gaza

The Jerusalem Post just reported the following regarding a false allegation against Israel made by N...