Yasser Arafat

December 4, 2014

Political messaging and inaccuracies in BBC Radio 4’s ‘Terror Through Time’

On December 2nd another edition of the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Terror Through Time’ (present...

November 13, 2014

Guardian article suggests Yasser Arafat abandoned terrorism after 1990

A nearly 5000 word hagiographic profile of Yasser Arafat by Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi ...

September 17, 2014

BBC WS ‘Witness’ erases Arafat’s terrorism

On September 15th the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Witness’ broadcast an episode t...

August 5, 2014

BBC regular Atwan shatters 14 year old BBC myth on second Intifada

h/t EoZ Here is a clip from an interview given by that old BBC favourite Abdel Bari Atwan to the Leb...

August 3, 2014

CiF Watch prompts Guardian correction to anti-Bibi smear by Chris McGreal

On Aug. 1st we fisked the claim in the following Tweet (on July 22) by Guardian reporter Chris McG...

August 1, 2014

Chris McGreal: The worst Guardian journalist

This blog has consistently demonstrated the journalistic malice of Guardian reporter Chris McGr...

April 11, 2014

BBC Arabic interview with former Arafat bodyguard

Courtesy of the indispensable MEMRI, non-Arabic speaking readers can now view a portion of an interv...

March 28, 2014

The stateless people in the Middle East you’ve never heard of

The following was written by Ben Cohen and first appeared at JNS.org. Here’s the setting: a Middle...

January 21, 2014

Another Guardian journalist falsely claims that Palestinians have abandoned terror

Last month, we posted about a remarkably misleading claim by Harriet Sherwood in an article about re...

December 26, 2013

Four times less BBC Online coverage of Arafat ‘not poisoned’ stories

On December 26th the Russian forensic institute which was one of three organisations to have been pr...