Another Image that Lied On 23 July, the tragic image of Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq shook the world. Headlines told a story of a boy being forcibly starved in a Gaza famine. My research quickly exposed that story as a lie. Muhammad had cerebral palsy, had been sick since birth, and his siblings were healthy. Barely a week later, legacy media played the same trick … Continue reading Rinse and Repeat: Another Gaza Famine Lie Goes Viral
This isn’t the face of famine. It’s the face of a medically vulnerable child whose suffering was hijacked and weaponised – first by Hamas, then by global media. The Image that Lied Unless you have been hiding under a rock all week, you would have seen the viral images of Mohammed, the child victim of the Gazan ‘famine’. The image used by most of these … Continue reading The Truth Behind the Viral Gazan Famine Photo
As I write this, the BBC has a news report running as a headline. It claims ’21 children have died from malnutrition in the last 72 hours’: Inside the ‘live’ page, it is clear that the news comes from a single source – Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya – the director of Shifa Hospital: This director has told the BBC that 900,000 children in Gaza are … Continue reading BBC News is beyond salvation – it is a Hamas puppet
From its opening line, the Peter Johnston review into the Hamasgate BBC documentary reads less like an investigation and more like an institutional reflex – a superficial exercise in damage control. What it offers is not insight into editorial failings, but into how the BBC protects itself when caught out. Good faith – the phone call A particularly revealing failure in the Johnston review is … Continue reading Whitewash – Peter Johnston and the BBC’s Gaza Cover-Up
The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) sounds like such an official, well-intentioned and professional organisation with the purpose of ensuring integrity in journalism. In reality it functions as a political attack dog, created by the Muslim Council of Britain to bully journalists, enforce pro-Islamist guidelines across UK media, and erode the concept of objective truth by manufacturing fake counter-narratives and pumping them out on social … Continue reading The lies of the CfMM – the Muslim Council’s attack dog
This is an open response to an email I received from Peter Oborne and Irfan Chowdhury challenging my comments on famine in Gaza. I have published their email here. Dear Irfan Chowdhury and Peter Oborne Thank you for your email. As is my usual method, I choose to reply by way of a public response. This way, both your questions and my answers are published … Continue reading An open response to Peter Oborne and Irfan Chowdhury
For several years I had a press card to provide a layer of security while covering hostile street protests. My recent experience with the National Union of Journalists shows how behind the scenes, British Jews are being ‘othered’ by hostile actors and excluded from society. This is a personal journey of abuse and discrimination. The need to be protected Those who have been following my … Continue reading The NUJ is hostile to Jewish journalists
Exclusive: Channel 4 News won awards for its reporting covering the Gaza conflict. So I went looking for an early Channel 4 news item to look more closely at what was so ‘award worthy’ about their reporting, and guess what I found… Channel 4 News, the first Doctor – and the viral story I started by looking for early news footage on the conflict from … Continue reading Channel 4 News takes direction from Hamas
BBC Verify is meant to be an elite ‘fact-checking’ unit for one of the largest broadcast news organizations in the world. Instead, it turns out BBC Verify is just another obsessive anti-Israel unit manned by amateur hacks – a bunch of student journalists who cannot leave their activist days behind them, clearly do not understand what ‘fact-checking’ or professional journalism actually mean, and do not … Continue reading Will BBC Verify apologise for spreading disinformation?
Why has nobody but Israel and the US demanded that civilians in Gaza be allowed to leave? And hold your reflexive answer to that question to the end. I want to talk here about the Gazan civilians – most of them considered refugees (70%+) by the international community (although I personally dispute that status). And I am going to do something few others seem to … Continue reading The world has fallen into the moral abyss over Gaza
