Yasser Arafat

October 12, 2015

Guardian celebrates Marwan Barghouti, and obfuscates his support for ‘armed resistance’

Marwan Barghouti is a murderer currently serving five consecutive life terms (plus 40 years) in an ...

October 1, 2015

BBC’s Connolly misrepresents the Six Day War for political messaging

An article by the BBC Jerusalem Bureau’s Kevin Connolly appeared in the ‘Features’...

September 4, 2015

Arafat ‘poisoning’ case closed: an overview of 3 years of BBC News coverage

On September 2nd an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the titl...

August 30, 2015

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ keeps Arafat conspiracy theory going

The BBC’s flagship interview programme ‘Hardtalk’ is broadcast on both BBC World N...

July 22, 2015

BBC News yet again amplifies Arafat conspiracy theories

On July 21st the BBC News website’s Middle East page included a report titled “Yasser Ar...

March 23, 2015

Times of London editorial misleads on Israel's so-called Arab population bomb

When the late Yasser Arafat used to predict that “the womb of the Arab woman” was the Pa...

March 22, 2015

The Guardian appoints anti-Israel propagandist Katharine Viner as new editor-in-chief

On Friday the Guardian announced that Katharine Viner,  deputy editor of the Guardian and editor-i...

March 19, 2015

No BBC coverage of French findings regarding Arafat’s death

On January 19th the BBC devoted multi-platform coverage to an interview with Yasser Arafat’s w...

January 23, 2015

‘Special edition’ of BBC’s Hardtalk to commemorate a terrorist

At some point in the not too distant past, the producers of the flagship BBC interview programme Har...

January 20, 2015

Where’s the BBC follow up?

On December 17th 2014 the BBC News website produced no fewer than six versions of an article titled ...