Political prisoner

March 1, 2023

Guardian op-ed calls terrorists who murder Israelis “political prisoners”

A Guardian op-ed characterised Palestinian terrorists who’ve murdered Israeli citizens as R...

January 30, 2022

Irish Times writer invents Palestinian “political prisoners”

A recent Irish Times review of a book about the history of political hunger strikes was written by ...

March 30, 2014

Guardian contributor claims all Palestinians jailed for terror crimes are ‘political prisoners’!

The following is a first person account (posted previously at this blog) by an Israeli paramedic ...

November 1, 2013

The Guardian corrects false Palestinian “political prisoner” claim

As we’ve noted previously, CiF Watch has been able to leverage information we obtained from th...

September 17, 2013

CiF Watch prompts another UK media correction to Palestinian ‘political prisoner’ claim

Back in late July, we posted about a story in The Independent written by Allistair Dawber pertaining...

August 21, 2013

Peter Beinart’s Open Zion feels the pain of pre-Oslo murderers and their loved ones

An Aug. 20 essay by Maysoon Zayid at Peter Beinart’s blog Open Zion, titled ‘Palestinia...

July 30, 2013

Indy posts, then deletes, reference to Palestinian terrorists as ‘political prisoners’

h/t Gidon and Christopher We recently posted about a grossly dishonest characterization in The Indep...

June 25, 2013

The Guardian and a tale of two hooded ‘Palestinian prisoners’

A CiF Watch post on June 7 focused on a report by the Guardian about questions raised by some board ...

June 5, 2013

What the Media Won’t Tell You About ‘Palestinian Prisoners’

Harriet Sherwood’s April 9, 2013 Guardian report, about efforts by John Kerry to restart Israeli-...

May 28, 2013

CiF Watch prompts Guardian correction to report on Palestinian prisoners

On April 10, we commented on a Guardian report by Harriet Sherwood, titled ‘John Kerry: talks ...