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The BBC’s silence on Iran’s protests is a scandal

The regime’s fall would reshape the world. Yet for Britain’s national broadcaster, the Guardian and their ideological fellow travellers, there is little to see

By Stephen Pollard

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Senior Hamas official Khalid Mish’al (Image: Getty).

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Guardian newspaper criticised for failure to remove columns by Hamas leader

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage (Image: Getty)

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The Guardian, the BBC and the weaponisation of antisemitism against Nigel Farage

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The Guardian newspaper's office in central London (Getty Images)

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Guardian publishes article containing antisemitic trope despite apologising in similar case a decade ago

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Headlines from the BBC and The Guardian crediting the International Association of Genocide Scholars with being the world's foremost expert on genocide

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BBC and Guardian fail to correct flawed Israel genocide story

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Abdallah Aljamal was killed when the IDF rescued three hostages from his home

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Guardian admits it did not check before publishing article commemorating ‘journalist’ accused of holding hostages

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Holocaust heritage shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat Israel over the head with

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Why I didn’t sign that writers’ letter calling the Gaza war a genocide

Whatever the cause, there is something about the words ‘we the undersigned’ that makes my heart sink

3 min read

June 1, 2025 17:56

Why I didn’t sign that writers’ letter calling the Gaza war a genocide

By Jake Wallis Simons

To demonstrate ‘impartiality’, the BBC shows the worst Jews they can find

Theroux’s settler documentary doesn’t illuminate – it rehearses the same old narrative

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April 29, 2025 11:43

Louis Theroux's documentary on the settlers on BBC 2 (BBC)

Guardian admits using photo of ancient synagogue to illustrate ‘Israeli suppression’ of Palestinian history

The paper has now swapped the picture for one of an early Islamic site on the other side of the country

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

April 17, 2025 10:01

The synagogue in Kafr Bi'rim (Image: Alamy)

Anti-Guardian protesters label the paper an ‘apologist for Zionist genocide’

The ‘Condemn The Guardian’ march is being organised by the Revolutionary Communist Group and urges supporters to ‘fight imperialism’

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

April 15, 2025 16:22

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'Purim is about survival, not slaughter': Chief Rabbi slams Guardian Purim column

Mirvis condemned Peter Beinart’s comparison of the Purim story to Israel’s military actions in Gaza

By Ellie Grant

2 min read

March 14, 2025 11:36

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis addresses an event (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

BBC staffers round on ‘delusional’ Owen Jones after he targets another Jewish colleague

In his attack on a second Jewish BBC journalist, Jones cites evidence from a writer who posted about ‘Jewish supremacist Zionist monsters’

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

February 14, 2025 14:52

Owen Jones has accused an Israeli BBC journalist of sharing content from “extreme accounts" and posting only about Israeli suffering (Photo: Getty)

BBC editor hires lawyer after Owen Jones claims led to antisemitic death threats

The allegation that Raffi Berg pushed Israel bias at the BBC has led to a deluge of abuse towards the Jewish journalist

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

January 14, 2025 09:30

Guardian journalist Owen Jones (C) wrote an article which has led to a BBC editor being targetted with antisemitic death threats (Photo: Getty Images)

Revealed: Jay Rayner left Observer over ‘antisemites on Guardian staff’

The editor, Kath Viner, ‘likes to deny it’ and ‘has not had the courage to face them down,’ he wrote in a private Facebook post

By Jake Wallis Simons

2 min read

November 22, 2024 17:38

Writer Jay Rayner will leave the Observer in a couple of months' time and join the Financial Times as restaurant critic (Image: Getty)

Jay Rayner leaves Observer after 25 years and joins FT amid newspaper sale chaos

The high-profile writer has been the Sunday newspaper’s food critic for 25 years

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November 21, 2024 16:30

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The BBC’s silence on Iran’s protests is a scandal

Guardian newspaper criticised for failure to remove columns by Hamas leader

The Guardian, the BBC and the weaponisation of antisemitism against Nigel Farage

Guardian publishes article containing antisemitic trope despite apologising in similar case a decade ago

BBC and Guardian fail to correct flawed Israel genocide story

Guardian admits it did not check before publishing article commemorating ‘journalist’ accused of holding hostages

Holocaust heritage shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat Israel over the head with

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