Second Intifada

January 5, 2014

Eleven links in four BBC articles promote baseless second Intifada myth

Since the evening of January 1st the BBC News website has produced no fewer than four separate repor...

January 2, 2014

As Sharon’s health deteriorates, BBC updates profile claiming he sparked second intifada

News of a serious deterioration in the health of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon prompted...

November 20, 2013

Roy Amlot in The Times: Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian children with relative impunity

A British lawyer named Roy Amlot wrote an op-ed for The Times, ‘West Bank: justice in the mil...

October 28, 2013

‘Mail & Guardian’ parrots description of Marwan Barghouti as a “political prisoner”

Taking the lead from pro-Palestinian and Palestinian Authority ‘news’ sites and some...

October 12, 2013

13 years on: BBC website still misleads over 2000 Ramallah lynching

As has been noted here previously, the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines on accuracy include a sub-sectio...

October 4, 2013

What the Guardian won’t report: Israelis who ‘turn swords into plowshares’.

The Guardian’s fetishization of Palestinian culture is indicative of an ideologically biased n...

September 30, 2013

BBC second Intifada backgrounders: ‘Sharon started it’

We have previously noted on these pages that – despite the BBC ECU having upheld a complaint on th...

September 29, 2013

Not fit for purpose: BBC backgrounder on second Intifada

On Friday September 27th 2013 violent demonstrations (unreported by the BBC, as was a rocket attack ...

September 15, 2013

Guardian Jerusalem Syndrome: Giles Fraser fears Judaisation of Temple Mount

Jerusalem Syndrome: a group of mental phenomena involving the presence of either religiously themed...

September 10, 2013

The Guardian falsely characterizes First Intifada as a “largely unarmed rebellion”

Yesterday we called out the Guardian for repeating the blatantly false claim that Ariel Sharon sta...