Jaffa

December 1, 2024

BBC NEWS COVERAGE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL – OCTOBER 2024

The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks during October 2024 shows that throughout th...

October 7, 2024

Omissions in BBC account of terror attack in Jaffa

On the evening of October 1st the BBC News website published a short report headlined “Several kil...

October 10, 2021

BBC NEWS COVERAGE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL – SEPTEMBER 2021

The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during September 2021 shows that ...

May 20, 2021

BBC’s Yolande Knell promotes speculation on Yaffo incident

Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘PM’ programme on May 15th heard a report (from 16:32 here) from th...

May 1, 2019

Guardian falsely claims Palestinians were ethnically “cleansed” from Jaffa

The word "cleansed" of course suggests that 97% of Palestinians were expelled or in some way forced ...

August 25, 2013

Guardian: Mahmoud Abbas gives up claims on “historic Palestinian city” of Haifa

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is clearly a moderate. How do I know? Well, per Harriet Sherwood...

December 8, 2012

Guardian omits tiny detail regarding Khaled Meshaal’s dream to “liberate Palestine”

Harriet Sherwood’s Dec. 7 report, ‘Gaza Welcomes exiled Hamas leader‘, about Khale...

August 5, 2012

Postcard from Israel: Jaffa and the Ottoman Train Station

 A guest post by AKUS After spending a morning at Shuk HaCarmel, it was time to head to the mother ...

October 9, 2011

Guardian story downplays firebombed synagogue, blames “settlers” for vandalized Arab graves w/o evidence

Say, you’re a reporter or editor and you have 2 events in which to contextualize into a headli...

July 20, 2010

Jaffa Tales, Real and Imagined

In vintage Guardian style, Harriet Sherwood presented us with a potted history of Jaffa on July 18th...