Simon Tisdall

June 23, 2025

Financial Times and Guardian push ‘tail wagging the dog’ trope

On June 22, 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the US Air Force to deploy a group of B-2 bombers ...

September 26, 2024

Beware of cliché-wielding Guardian columnists

Veteran Guardian* foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall unleashed a torrent of lies, distortions...

July 4, 2023

Guardian: Israeli resistance to Palestinian extremism is futile

The Guardian brought back their former Jerusalem correspondent Peter Beaumont to provide an analysis...

July 7, 2022

Guardian: Peace breaks out in Mid-East – Palestinians hardest hit

The Guardian’s Simon Tisdall devoted most of his column (A mirage of peace? Joe Biden ventures...

September 13, 2021

The Guardian’s Simon Tisdall isn’t buying Israeli ‘claims’ about Palestinian terrorism

In March we posted about a completely unsubstantiated claim by veteran Guardian foreign affairs comm...

April 18, 2021

An idea so stupid that only a Guardian columnist can believe it

To paraphrase George Orwell, some arguments are so self-evidently stupid that only Guardian columnis...

March 8, 2021

Guardian makes unsourced claim that Israel urged US to attack Syria

A Guardian piece by their veteran journalist Simon Tisdall (“Ten grim lessons the world has le...

April 1, 2018

Guardian and Independent parrot Hamas talking points on “Great Return March”.

The fact that 10 out of the 16 Palestinians killed since Friday have been verified by the IDF as mem...

November 18, 2012

What war is good for: Jonathan Freedland and the empty platitudes of ‘peace’

“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral a...

February 27, 2012

Guardian Proletariat Hotel: Accommodations for the 99%, managed by the 1% (A visual guide)

A huge H/T to Armaros Harry’s Place alerted us earlier in the week that the Guardian is thin...