Yasser Arafat

July 26, 2019

Hamas official contradicts BBC’s ‘permanent archive’ messaging

The BBC maintains an online archive which promotes inaccurate accounts of events without that fact b...

May 14, 2019

Indy fails to challenge Hanan Ashrawi’s claim she’s always rejected violence

Though, especially in recent years, Hanan Ashrawi has often expressed support for non-violence, at l...

March 1, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....

February 14, 2019

The BBC examines conspiracy theories – but not its own

The BBC is good at publishing items about conspiracy theories but not nearly so good at avoiding the...

January 18, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....

November 30, 2018

BBC WS history programme rekindles Arafat death conspiracy theory

Over three years on the BBC continues to amplify baseless conspiracy theory. ...

March 19, 2018

Indy falsely claims Fatah was founded by Arafat to merely ‘create a Palestinian state’.

The claim by the Indy journalist that Fatah as founded to promote the creation of a Palestinian stat...

August 10, 2017

BBC WS history show ‘explains’ Camp David summit failure

The BBC WS's explanation of why Camp David failed lacks historical base....

June 26, 2017

BBC’s Bowen resurrects the ‘Arafat was poisoned’ canard on Radio 4

The myth that Arafat was poisoned by Israel is exhumed by the BBC's Middle East editor....

June 1, 2017

Economist attack piece reveals the ‘zealotry’ of their anti-Israel agenda

In fact, the suggestion that the country is moving to the far right couldn't be further from the tru...