Syria

July 23, 2021

Weekend long read

1) NGO Monitor provides a backgrounder on the NGOs that campaigned to persuade Ben & Jerry’s t...

July 9, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At the Tablet magazine Yair Rosenberg discusses ‘The Palestinian Vaccine Fiasco’. “On Wedne...

July 2, 2021

Weekend long read

1) The ITIC’s analysis of casualties in the Gaza Strip during Operation Guardian of the Walls is n...

April 19, 2021

Revisiting the redundancy of BBC reservations on Syrian reactor

On April 14th Kazem Gharibabadi, who describes himself as “Ambassador and Permanent Representative...

April 16, 2021

Weekend long read

1) Jonathan Spyer discusses The Ravaging of Afrin. “Located in the north west corner of Syria, th...

March 21, 2021

Reviewing a decade of BBC reporting on Syria

A decade of BBC reporting on the civil war in Syria has produced some memorable moments such as the ...

March 16, 2021

Predictable messaging in BBC’s Syrian civil war feature

On March 12th a feature article titled “Why has the Syrian war lasted 10 years?” appeared on the...

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...

March 5, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At the Fathom journal, David Hirsh explains ‘The Meaning of David Miller’. “According to Br...

March 1, 2021

BBC’s ‘disinfo’ article fails to explain why it amplified that propaganda

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on February 27th found an item promoted ...