On March 30th, Times of London (The Times) published an article by Gregg Carlstrom titled ‘Bedouin march through desert to gain ‘dignity’. It begins thusly: The leader of the Joint List, a […]
On May 7th we posted about Ben Lynfield’s column (Netanyahu’s ‘Jewish state’ law angers Arab Israelis, May 2) at the Independent, which included the following claim: For example, while hundreds of new cities, towns and […]
As our posts noting CiF Watch-prompted corrections often demonstrate, beyond the UK media’s biased coverage of the region there lies another somewhat related problem – the failure to fact-check claims used to […]
CiF Watch recently posted about a motion passed by the Royal Institute of British Architects calling on the International Union of Architects (UIA) “to suspend the Israeli Association of United Architects’ (IAUA) membership […]
The Jews of today scare me and I find it almost impossible to talk to most of them, including relatives. Any criticism of the policies of Israel – including the disgraceful treatment […]
The Jews of today scare me and I find it almost impossible to talk to most of them, including relatives. Any criticism of the policies of Israel – including the disgraceful treatment […]
On Dec. 1 we posted about Harriet Sherwood’s story at the Guardian titled ‘Israel’s plan to forcibly resettle Negev Bedouins prompts global protests‘. The legislation Sherwood reported on is known as Prawer-Begin (which passed its […]
Harriet Sherwood’s Guardian report on Dec. 1, ‘Israel’s plan to forcibly resettle Negev Bedouins prompts global protests‘, focuses on objections to the so-called Prawer-Begin plan to resettle some of the Israeli Bedouin […]
A guest post by AKUS On Nov. 28th the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Harriett Sherwood ‘reported‘ on a letter (published at the Guardian on the same day) signed by 50 public figures such as […]
Phoebe Greenwood’s report in The Telegraph, Ex-South African Israel ambassador likens Bedouin treatment to Apartheid‘, June 19, is in many ways quite typical of mainstream media framing of issues relating to the nomadic […]
A guest post by AKUS I planned to head south from the kibbutz to visit the Nabatean ruins at Avdat, which has been designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, and […]
A guest post by AKUS A barrage of 20 or so kassams from Gaza seems to have ended, so it’s time to hop into your rented car and visit the local branch […]
“… the tale he had to tell could not be one of a final victory. It could be only the record of what had to be done, and what assuredly would have to […]
A guest post by AKUS [CiF Watch regular contributor ‘AKUS’ recently visited Israel and will be filing a few blog ‘postcards’ from his trip over the next few days. This is his […]
A guest post by Hadar Sela As long-time readers of Cif Watch are well aware, the subject of the demolition of repeatedly illegally constructed buildings at Al Arakib in the Negev has […]
This is cross posted by Pesach Benson at the blog of Honest Reporting In the middle of an article about a plan to relocate Bedouins, The Guardian‘s Harriet Sherwood worries that Maale Adumim […]
On December 5th the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Harriet Sherwood produced yet another article on one of her – and her employer’s – favourite subjects – the Bedouin. This time she appears to […]
This is cross posted at Jewish Ideas Daily by Diana Muir Appelbaum The chronically tense relations between the Israeli government and Bedouins in the Negev—where unrecognized villages are built, razed, and built again—are […]
This was going to be a post about yet another unserious charge by a Guardian columnist of ethnic cleansing against Israel. What caught my eye initially in today’s Guardian report, “Letter from […]
On October 5th the Guardian published two items – an article by MK Talab el Sana and a letter signed by a number of well-known and prolific anti-Israel activists – on the […]
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