Sky News and Independent (in Arabic) deliberately ignore Holocaust commemoration
Like other cases we’ve carefully documented before, this one also shows how Sky News and The Independent do not hold their Arabic-speaking subsidiaries to serious journalistic standards, certainly not...
View ArticleIndependent Arabia after a year: lies, propaganda and conspiracies
To mark Independent Arabia’s first anniversary, we’re presenting six of the headlines their editorial staff found worthy of publishing (under The Independent’s logo) during the past year.
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BBC News reporting on new Lebanese government avoids relevant facts
January 22nd saw the appearance of a filmed report titled “Lebanon protesters angry over new government” on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page. The video’s synopsis reads: “Protesters in Lebanon...
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BBC News again ignores Palestinian electricity debt
As regular readers know, the BBC has for years avoided the issue of debts owed to the Israeli company which supplies electricity to the Palestinian distributor in PA controlled areas. BBC promotes...
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BBC Radio 4 listeners hear a context-free story from Jeremy Bowen
As we saw earlier the January 25th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme included speculations from the BBC’s Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen concerning the US president’s then upcoming meeting...
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BBC’s Tom Bateman misleads on the Oslo Accords
A report headlined “Trump’s Middle East peace plan: Smiles and sorrow on the ground” was published on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page late on January 28th. Written by the corporation’s...
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BBC Two ‘Newsnight’ viewers misled on 1949 Armistice lines
The January 28th edition of BBC’s Two’s ‘Newsnight’ included a report by the programme’s diplomatic editor Mark Urban on the topic of the peace plan launched by the US administration earlier in the...
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The BBC’s Middle East editor’s framing of the US peace plan
A report by the BBC’s Middle East editor which was aired in the January 28th edition of BBC One’s ‘News at Ten’ just hours after the presentation of the US administration’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan...
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Inadequately presented interviewees and an anonymous quote in BBC One Guerin...
Following on from Jeremy Bowen’s report on the US administration’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan, viewers of BBC One’s ‘News at Ten’ on January 28th were presented with a report by Orla Guerin which was...
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Weekend long read
1) At the FDD Svante Cornell and Brenda Shaffer analyse ‘Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes’. “Setting policies toward territories involved in protracted...
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