Islamic State

March 29, 2022

BBC reporting on Hadera terror attack follows the usual template

Late on March 27th the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page published a report about a terror...

July 1, 2016

Jeremy Corbyn, Glenn Greenwald and “progressive” antisemitism

Greenwald's 'warnings' about "large and extremely influential Jewish donor groups agitating for war ...

March 17, 2016

Babar Ahmad’s “ideal of jihad” is still a problem

Cross posted from the blog of the CST Babar Ahmad is a British jihadi who returned home to the UK la...

December 28, 2015

Daily Express bizarrely puts Israel atop list of ‘worst places to be Christian this Christmas’

It sometimes seems as if the UK media truly can’t help themselves. Not only do news sites fail...

December 24, 2015

Times of London places Israel in story on international persecution of Christians

“Christians represent the most persecuted people on earth in the 21st century,” argued ...

November 22, 2015

The Guardian’s solution to ISIS’s war on…”multiculturalism”?

I’m sure there are many British Muslims who have thought rather less about the rival merits of MEN...

November 19, 2015

Why won’t Guardian cartoonists speak truth to Jihadist power after #ParisAttack?

An Indy op-ed by cartoonist Tim Sanders criticizing a recent Daily Mail cartoon published in the aft...

July 29, 2015

Why is @Guardian giving a platform to Hizb ut-Tahrir?

On Friday the Guardian published a lengthy interview by Peter Oborne with Abdul Wahid, a leading Bri...

June 12, 2015

Denis MacEoin replies to Guardian letter calling for a boycott of Israeli Film & TV Festival

The Guardian has published, before this, praise for several North Korean films, including A Flower G...

June 3, 2015

Britain’s student union refused to boycott ISIS, yet passes motion boycotting Israel. #BeyondParody

Last October, a Kurdish student attempted to get the National Union of Students in the UK (NUS) to p...