Conspiracy Theories

January 14, 2019

PA minister promotes anti-Israel conspiracy theory – why it matters.

Though British media outlets covering the region subject nearly every Israeli moral failure to somet...

March 18, 2018

Guardian legitimises Craig Murray’s anti-Israel conspiracy theory on Russian spy poisoning

By linking to Murray's wild, completely unsubstantiated and incendiary charges, and uncritically cit...

September 14, 2017

Indy journo who legitimised 9/11 truther writes new article warning of conspiracy theorists

Tellingly, nowhere in her new article warning of the dangers of Middle East conspiracy theories - pu...

September 4, 2017

Spectator article suggests ‘Israeli money’ manipulates US policy towards Iran.

The toxic charge that Israel (or Jews qua Jews) exercises a dangerous degree of control over US fore...

March 14, 2017

Indy piece on Israel cites ‘analysis’ of fringe extremist and 9/11 truther

It's quite telling that of all the political analysts the Indy journalist could have asked to commen...

June 26, 2016

British media ignore Mahmoud Abbas’s antisemitic ‘poisoning the wells’ libel

Palestinian antisemitism is one of the more under-reported political pathologies within the region, ...

November 2, 2015

Gerald Kaufman: back to antisemitic basics

Whether Kaufman is antisemitic or not is barely relevant here. He has said numerous objectionable th...

June 17, 2015

Guardian letter warns UK Muslims that joining ISIS serves Israeli interests

Though with most anti-Zionist conspiracy theories it's typically at least clear what crazy accusatio...

December 7, 2014

CiF Watch follow up: Guardian blogger axed after crazy post about Gaza War

During the summer war in Gaza, we posted about Nafeez Ahmed, who published a truly bizarre, conspir...

August 19, 2013

Guardian staffer ponders the “Evil Trinity” of Zionists, Neo-cons and Wahabists.

An Aug. 18 Guardian report titled ‘US has lost all credibility in the Middle East, says John M...