Libya

November 9, 2018

Weekend long read

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

December 18, 2015

Weekend long read

This week’s long read focuses on recent Middle East related stories which did not appear on BB...

June 28, 2015

BBC WS radio’s ‘balanced’ account of the Six Day War excludes Israelis

Listeners to the June 14th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘The History Hour&...

May 1, 2013

BBC Arabic on Jews from Arab lands

BBC Arabic recently featured a programme and an article about Israeli Jews with origins in Arab coun...

March 30, 2013

BBC turns political activists into "aid workers"

A report entitled “Libyans held for ‘sex attack’ on Britons in Benghazi“, da...

March 25, 2013

Imagine a land where even one Jew is one Jew too many

There will be no Passover Seder in Libya tonight.   This is so because, in Libya, there are no long...

November 5, 2012

The Muslim Brotherhood are turning into Leninists in Islamist dress. Egypt is in real trouble

(Alan Johnson’s essays on the the dangers posed by the rise of Islamism are truly in a league...

September 21, 2012

Conspiracy theory about Jewish donors funding anti-Islam film is variation on ancient theme.

A version of this essay, written by Joseph Weissman, was published at The JC. On the eleventh annive...

January 22, 2012

Guardian ignores story of 30,000 blacks ethnically cleansed from Libyan town

H/T Joe The BBC recently reported the following: “The 30,000 people living in a town in northe...

July 14, 2011

The Guardian’s obsession with Israel and the conflicts not covered

H/T Margie A recent report by Just Journalism on the UK media’s coverage of the Middle East de...