More than a few eyebrows were raised over the weekend when it was reported that the BBC – yes, the BBC! – had set up a team devoted to debunking ‘fake news’. As we noted in the subsequent tweet, our sister site, BBC Watch, knows a thing or two about this vexing problem.
Though CAMERA and its affiliates have sometimes achieved success in getting editors to cease publishing specific, recurring false claims about Israel, other instances of ‘fake news’ continue to be published despite our efforts to demonstrate their fallacy.
For instance, in September, we posted about a Guardian op-ed which included the oft-repeated false claim by the NGO Adalah that there are “50 racist laws” in Israel. However, Guardian editors, perhaps in part due totheir…
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