Yasser Arafat

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...

March 8, 2017

BBC News report whitewashes Arafat’s terrorism

On March 6th an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the headline...

December 26, 2016

BBC report that breached impartiality rules still intact online 12 years on

In November 2004 the Telegraph published an editorial which opened as follows: “Many listeners...

January 24, 2016

BBC Two’s ‘Newsnight’ gives a stage to Galloway’s conspiracy theories

Following the publication on January 21st of the results of the inquiry into the death of Alexander ...

November 24, 2015

Another BBC News correction misses its point

One of the suggestions made in BBC Watch’s submission to the DCMS BBC Charter Review consultat...

November 2, 2015

What the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland gets wrong about Rabin and Israel’s search for peace

Most Israelis – even those who don’t support the settlement enterprise – don’t believe that ...