The BBC is unshakably on the side of the Palestinians and completely unsympathetic toward Israel. But apparently for 100 of its staffers, the BBC has been insufficiently hostile toward Israel, and they have signed a joint letter of protest, demanding that the BBC do even more of what it has been doing all along. Cosigning […]
William Dalrymple Is Out Far and In Deep
William Dalrymple piles on the wild claims, that Israel is guilty of “75 years of torture, rape, dispossession, humiliation and occupation.” It has been 75 years since Israel first had to fight for its survival against those who would destroy it. There have been three more wars of survival — in 1967, 1973, and in […]
William Dalrymple’s Unhinged Charges Against Israel
William Dalrymple is among those non-Muslims who accuse Israel of “genocide.” Dalrymple, whom I once described at this site as an “upmarket Barbara Cartland,” took a break from writing treacly tales of star-crossed lovers in Mughal India to make a series of unhinged charges against Israel. More on Dalrymple’s charges about Israel can be found […]
A Tribute to William Dalrymple
(Note from Robert Spencer: propagandist William Dalrymple on X recently mentioned “the eviction of 750,000 Palestinians at the Nakba in 1948” and invoked a seventeenth-century text to refute claims that Palestine was desolate before Zionism. This was brought to my attention with a request that I respond, so I pointed out that the claims that […]