Gilad Shalit

June 14, 2024

More narrative-driven BBC coverage of the hostage rescue in Nuseirat

Previously we discussed three BBC reports – two written and one filmed – which appeared in the h...

October 25, 2023

BBC News report falls short on the aims of Hamas kidnappings

Fifteen months ago the BBC News website finally got round to reporting a story that it had previousl...

November 7, 2019

Independent Arabia calls kidnapped, mentally-ill Israeli civilians in Gaza “captive soldiers”

Independent Arabia, operating under the imprimatur of a presumably “Western” media outlet, recen...

March 28, 2017

Guardian: US Ambassador to Israel and Hamas leader are both “hardliners”.

o we have hardliners on both sides – on the side of Hamas, a convicted murderer, on the US State D...

June 26, 2014

Economist is latest media outlet to falsely claim the 3 kidnapped teens are 'settlers'

An article in the print edition of the Economist on June 21 titled ‘Stirring Bad Blood‘...

June 13, 2013

‘Comment is Free’ contributor Abdel al-Bari Atwan sympathizes with Osama Bin Laden

Abdel al-Bari Atwan is the editor-in chief of the London-based Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi, and...

April 24, 2013

The Indy’s Alistair Dawber whitewashes terrorist crimes of Samer Issawi

An April 23 story in The Independent, written by the paper’s Jerusalem correspondent Alistair ...

April 2, 2013

Who’s the most bigoted Guardian or ‘Comment is Free’ contributor?

The Guardian published a relatively humorous April Fool’s story yesterday titled ‘Guardi...

March 4, 2013

Phoebe Greenwood races to report ‘news’ that Samer al-Issawi supports BDS

We posted yesterday, March 3, about a ‘Comment is Free‘ essay published by convicted DFL...

March 3, 2013

Guardian provides forum for Palestinian terrorist Samer al-Issawi

Samer al-Issawi is a Palestinian who was arrested in April 2002 and sentenced to 26 years for att...