Mahmoud Abbas

February 14, 2025

PA’s terrorist salaries rebrand not newsworthy for the BBC

As longtime readers will be aware, the BBC’s coverage of Palestinian affairs is patchy at best and...

December 6, 2024

Weekend long read

1) At the Modern War Institute, John Spencer explains ‘Israel’s New Approach to Tunnels: A Parad...

March 20, 2024

No BBC follow-up on responses to appointment of new PA PM

On the morning of March 15th the BBC News website published a report about an event which had taken ...

September 21, 2023

BBC WS RADIO PRESENTATION OF THE PA SUCCESSION CONUNDRUM – PART TWO

Previously we discussed the first half of the September 14th edition of the BBC World Service radio ...

September 20, 2023

BBC WS radio presentation of the PA succession conundrum – part one

The question of who will succeed the octogenarian Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas is o...

September 14, 2023

Economist grossly misleads on Oslo and Israeli support for two-states

An Economist article (“The Oslo accords were always doomed to fail”, Sept. 12) grossly m...

September 13, 2023

Palestinian activism demands checking your liberalism at the door

Can you be truly committed to liberal values and be an full-throated supporter of the Palestinian ca...

September 12, 2023

How did the BBC report Mahmoud Abbas’ latest antisemitic speech?

On the afternoon of September 7th the BBC News website published a report by Yolande Knell concernin...

September 8, 2023

Weekend long read

1) At the JISS, Dr Uzi Rubin examines the question of ‘Will the Rocket Threat from Jenin Match the...

August 25, 2023

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS, Yohanan Tzoreff analyses an event late last month which has not been covered by the ...