Farhud

June 5, 2023

The Times legitimises Avi Shlaim’s Farhud victim-blaming

A Times review, written by historian Max Hastings, of a book by Avi Shlaim (“I was the wrong k...

April 13, 2021

BBC Arabic edits to AFP report omit 1941 pogrom, downplay persecution of Iraqi Jews

A post by CAMERA Arabic (All translations, emphases and in-bracket remarks are by CAMERA Arabic, unl...

June 1, 2018

Weekend long read

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

December 7, 2017

Another BBC report on Iraqi Jews omits the Farhud

A BBC Radio 4 item about the Jews of Iraq once again suffers from a serious omission....

November 21, 2017

BBC WS claims Israeli ‘pressure’ and ‘incentives’ led Jews to flee Iraq

The BBC asked 'what happened to the Jews of Baghdad?' but failed to give listeners much of the answe...

November 19, 2017

Guardian frames expulsion of Iraqi Jews in 40s and 50s as “easygoing, pluralistic prosperity”.

Once again, the Guardian has erased a chapter within the well-documented ethnic cleansing of over 80...

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 19, 2014

Guardian puts politically correct spin on the demise of Iraq's Jewish community

“Have you noticed how Arab nationalism can never be held solely responsible for the ethnic cle...