Abdel Bari Atwan

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Abdel Bari Atwan (Abd Al-Bari Atwan [عبد الباري عطوان] b. 17 February 1950, Gaza) is the British "Palestinian" propagandist, editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm. He was the editor-in-chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi from the founding of the paper in 1989 until July 2013.

He has been glorifying Osama Bin Laden, a fan of Saddam Hussein, supported Jihadi terror, even cheering for an Islamist Iranian genocidal nuclear attack; diminished the Holocaust, among other things.

British media has been gaushing over him for years, such as ultra liberal The Guardian and the libetal BBC, till he was dropped by the BBC in 2022.

Explained already in 2003:[1] "The Abd Al-Bari Atwan [appearing] on CNN is completely different from the Abd Al-Bari Atwan on the Al-Jazeera network or in his Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily", says Munir Al-Mawari in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyassa. "On CNN, Atwan speaks solemnly and with total composure, presenting rational and balanced views. This is in complete contrast with his fuming appearances on Al-Jazeera and in Al-Quds Al-Arabi".

[Reminds, Haaretz,[2] in Hebrew vs inciting far more in English.[3] Often dabricated "news." ('Haaretzism')]


Highlights:


  • In December, 2003, sympathetic to Saddam, Atwan lamented: "We had hoped that he would resist to the last and in the process fall as a martyr... . "This would have been more honourable for him than surrendering to US forces."[4]


  • Sep 2006, Atwan: "The events of 11 September will be remembered as the end of the US empire. This is because all empires collapse when they pursue the arrogance of power."[5]


  • In June 2007, Atwan:[6][7][8] "If Iranian Missiles Hit Israel, I Will Dance in Trafalgar Square."


  • In 2008:[9] praised terror attack on 'Mercaz Harav' Israel (2008) massacring 8 students.


  • In May 2011:[10] "I get worse coverage in the Jewish Chronicle than Hitler would!"



  • In January 2012, Atwan mourned the death of Saddam. Expressed sympathy with the insurgency against the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. Commenting on former president Saddam Hussein's execution he said that he would "go to the gallows with his head held high, because he built a strong united Iraq without sectarianism".[12]


  • In July 2012, Atwan praised Assad regime, his "resilience," compares him to his other heroes, Saddam Hussein and Yassir Arafat.[13]


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Kataeeb Falangists (Dec.18.82) on its killing in Sabra Shatila
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Author Brigitte Gabriel (2008) on Sabra Shatila vs other massacres

Author:

“ Palestinian militiamen started the killings in 1975, long before the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres. Beit Mellat, Deir Achache, Damour, Saadiyate and many others were peaceful cities and villages where hundreds, if not thousands, of Lebanese were killed on their own land in their own country by armed foreigners, mostly Palestinians and Syrian Muslims.[14] ”
  • On Sep 19, 2012, belittling the Holocaust, Atwan labeled the Sabra and Shatila massacre (carried out by Christian Lebanese militia in response to Damour massacre) "a Palestinian holoc#ust", part of a long series of “holoc..sts [sic]" inflicted upon Palestinians and Arabs until today, "not by gas ovens but by Israeli F-16 missiles, which are manufactured in the US." As watchdog added: 'Apparently it still bears mentioning that no "F-16 missiles" were involved.'[15]


  • In Feb 2013:[16] praising OBL, "Sheik Osama Bin Laden was a great Man."


  • In June 2013:[17] "Bin Laden was only half a terrorist."[18]


  • In September 2013, Atwan stated: The loss of Syrian chemical weapons is a loss to the Entire Arab Nation.[19]


  • In 2014, in a tweet in Arabic, Atwan downplayed the Holocaust. [20]


  • In 2016, Atwan blamed rather European Leaders, claiming, they encourage Muslims to join ISIS.[21]


  • In March 2020, Atwan: Coronavirus will bring the end of the U.S. empire; let China rise – It Won't be worse than America.[22]


  • In May 2021, during Guardian of Walls, as Hamas, PIJ reined down barrage of rockets on civilians, Atwan: 'The sirens that go off when Hamas rockets hit Ashdod are like a Beethoven symphony to my ears.'[23]


  • In Aug 2021:[24] he claimed that (terror attacks at) 'Kabul airport scenes will happen at Ben Gurion', that Israelis should learn how to swim because their only option to escape "will be the Mediterranean Sea."


  • In March 2022, Atwan: The Ukraine war is a gift from Allah to the Arabs; the Arabs benefit the most from this war; the West is begging us to increase oil production, their lives are in our Hands.[25]


  • In March 2022:[26] Atwan praised the (03/22/2022) ISIS "Palestinian" terror killing in Hadera, Israel.


  • In August 2022, Atwan appears as expressing sympathy for Sir Salman’s assailant.[27] At first, BBC has refused to back down, even after a former Governor of the corporation said[28] its coverage of the Salman Rushdie attack "could amount to glorifying terrorism", the JC can reveal.[29]


  • In Dec 2022, it was reported that the BBC dropped him.[30]

References

  1. ↑ Arab Liberal Writer: Blames Arab Media for Hatred of the U.S., Memri, November 7, 2003.
  2. ↑ Haaretz | Outlets | CAMERA
  3. ↑ Presspectiva
  4. ↑ Toby Manhire, Arab press review, The Guardian, 17 Dec 2003.

    Much of the copious commentary in the Arab papers on the capture of Saddam Hussein focused on the manner in which the deposed Iraqi leader surrendered himself. "Saddam's performance at the moment of his arrest and during his medical check was humiliating and appalling," said Muhammad Abd-al-Hamid in the Palestinian Authority-controlled Al-Ayyam. "This man, who had entered popular legend, looked ... submissive, fragile ... an Arab ruler who put his own personal security before any other considerations."

    "We had hoped that he would resist to the last and in the process fall as a martyr," said Abd al-Bari Atwan, the editor of the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi. "This would have been more honourable for him than surrendering to US forces."
  5. ↑ Press Blasts..., BBC, Sep 11, 2006.
  6. ↑ Jonny Paul, London Editor Prays for Nuclear Attack on Israel, JPost, August 28, 2007. [1].
    The editor of an Arabic daily newspaper published in London said in an interview on Lebanese television that he would dance in Trafalgar Square if Iranian missiles hit Israel. Talking about Iran's nuclear capability on ANB Lebanese television on June 27, Abd Al-Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, said, "If the Iranian missiles strike Israel, by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square and dance with delight."
  7. ↑ London editor: I'd celebrate Israel's nuking, JTA, 29 August 2007.
    The editor of an Arabic daily newspaper in London said he would "dance with delight" if Iranian missiles hit Israel.

    "If the Iranian missiles strike Israel, by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square and dance with delight," said Abd Al-Bari Atwan in an interview with the Lebanese television station ANB in June, according to The Jerusalem Post.

    Bari Atwan is the editor of the Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, a pan-Arab daily he founded in 1989. He is also a commentator on Sky News and BBC News 24.
  8. ↑ ANB-TV (Lebanon), June 27, 2007; cited in "Abd Al-Bari Atwan, Editor-in-Chief of Al-Quds Al-Arabi: If Iranian Missiles Hit Israel, I Will Dance in Trafalgar Square," Memritv.org, July 16, 2007.
  9. ↑ Jonny Paul, Arab daily: Mercaz Harav attack was justified, JPost, Mar 15, 2008.

    London editor says jubilation in Gaza after attack symbolized the "courage of the Palestinian nation."

    ... This article is alarming, since Atwan is perceived as a legitimate and unbiased analyst by the British media, and is often invited to voice his views in different media platforms," said Lior Ben-Dor, spokesman at the Israeli Embassy in London. "The problem is that when addressing the British public, he tends to hide his true opinions and ideology - his support for terror and the murder of civilians. This article reveals Atwan's real colors, a supporter of fundamentalism and terror, and hence he should be treated accordingly." In an interview on ANB Lebanese television in June, Atwan said, "If the Iranian missiles strike Israel, by God, I will go to Trafalgar Square and dance with delight. "If a war breaks out, where will the Iranians retaliate? If Iran is able to retaliate, it will burn the oil wells, block the Strait of Hormuz, attack the American bases in the Gulf and, God willing, it will attack Israel, as well," he added. Atwan was born in a refugee camp in 1950. He founded the pan-Arab daily in London in 1989, and today it has a circulation of around 50,000. In 1996 he interviewed Osama bin Laden. He is a regular commentator on CNN, Sky News and BBC News.
  10. ↑ Richard Millett, Abdel Bari Atwan at Amnesty: "I get worse coverage in the Jewish Chronicle than Hitler would!" May 24, 2011.
  11. ↑ Claims Al Quds editor 'paid' by Gaddafi regime, The JC, Sep 16, 2011.
  12. ↑ "Al-Quds Newspaper mourns the death of Saddam". Alquds al Arabi, January 20, 2012. [2].
  13. ↑ Death and Destruction in Baghdad and Damascus, TOI, Jul 24, 2012.
  14. ↑ Gabriel, Brigitte. Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America. United States: St. Martin's Press, 2008. [3].
  15. ↑ CAMERA Arabic, "It’s Time For The British Media To Stop Normalising Abdel Bari Atwan," Camera, August 30, 2021.

    September 2012 – Atwan labeled the Sabra and Shatila massacre "a Palestinian holoc#ust", part of a long series of “holoc..sts [sic]" inflicted upon Palestinians and Arabs until today, "not by gas ovens but by Israeli F-16 missiles, which are manufactured in the US."

    Apparently it still bears mentioning that no "F-16 missiles" were involved in the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which was carried out by a Christian Lebanese militia contrary to prior [4] and real-time [5] understandings with top IDF commanders. The questions of Israel's indirect responsibility for not anticipating the massacre [6], as well its leadership’s ability to realize what was happening on the ground and intervene on time, both remain disputed [7]. As for the way the civil war in Lebanon influenced the construction of the Sabra and Shatila narrative among Palestinians and Lebanese alike, see for example here [8].
  16. ↑ "Archival - Al-Quds Al-Arabi Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Bari Atwan: Sheik Osama Bin Laden Was a Great Man." Memri, March 15, 2013. [9], Memri, March 13, 2013. [10].
    Source: BBC Arabic (The UK). ... excerpts from an interview with Al-Quds Al-Arabi editor-in-chief Abd Al-Bari Atwan, which aired on BBC Arabic TV and was posted on the Internet on February 16, 2013.
  17. ↑ ON TV on June 2, 2013; cited in "Abd Al-Bari Atwan: Bin Laden Was Only Half a Terrorist," Memri, June 2, 2013. [11]. [12].
  18. ↑ Elhanan Miller, Arab editor who called bin Laden only 'half a terrorist' quits, TOI, Jul 10, 2013.
    Israel- and US-bashing Abdel Bari Atwan ends 24-year career at helm of London's Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
  19. ↑ Al-Quds Al-Arabi Editor Abdel Bari Atwan: The Loss of Syrian Chemical Weapons a Loss to the Entire Arab Nation, Memri, September 10, 2013.
    excerpts from an interview with Abdel Bari Atwan, former editor-in-chief of the Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily, which aired on Al-Manar TV on September 10, 2013...
  20. ↑ AND HERE HE IS ON THE SHOAH…, The JC, Oct 28, 2022.

    IN a recently unearthed 2014 tweet, BBC com­ment­ator Abdel Bari Atwan down­played the sig­ni­fic­ance of the Holo­caust. "Abbas con­siders the Holo­caust the greatest tragedy in mod­ern his­tory. We strongly disagree, viewing the Nakba of Palestine as the greater, more severe one," he wrote on Twitter in Arabic.

    And in 2021, the prominent anti-Zionist activist said Israelus aught to "start learning how to swim" because the Jewish State could be invaded at any moment.
  21. ↑ Abdel-Bari Atwan: European Leaders Encouraged Muslims to Join ISIS; British "Experts" Know Nothing about ISIS, Memri, March 22, 2016.
  22. ↑ Visions of the Post-Coronavirus World - Abdel Bari Atwan: Coronavirus Will Bring the End of the U.S. Empire; Let China Rise – It Won’t Be Worse than America, Memri, March 27, 2020.
  23. ↑ British-Palestinian Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan: The Sirens That Go Off When Hamas Rockets Hit Ashdod Are Like A Beethoven Symphony To My Ears, Memri, May 16, 2021.
  24. ↑ Jewish News Reporter, ‘Kabul airport scenes will happen at Ben Gurion’, claims pundit, JewishNews, August 25, 2021.

    Abdel Bari Atwan has been criticised by Jewish groups after claiming in an anti-Israel rant that scenes in Kabul will be repeated at Ben Gurion airport. Abdel Bari Atwan, who has appeared on mainstream channels such as the BBC, said that Israelis should learn how to swim because their only option to escape "will be the Mediterranean Sea."...

    The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said the video was "genocide-seeking haters of Jewish state inspired by Afghanistan debacle" while Michael Dickson of Stand With Us labelled Atwan a "raving propagandist."
  25. ↑ British-Palestinian Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan: The Ukraine War Is A Gift From Allah To The Arabs; The Arabs Benefit The Most From This War; The West Is Begging Us To Increase Oil Production, Their Lives Are In Our Hands, Memri, March 18, 2022.
  26. ↑ MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) Tweeted (March 31, 2022):
    British-Palestinian Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan Praises Hadera, Israel Shooters: I Am Truly Happy That Palestinians from Within Israel's 1948 Borders Took Up Arms and Killed Israeli Police Officers; This Spoiled the Negev Summit.
    https://t.co/L4dbkDEb4V
  27. ↑ BBC’s defence of Atwan makes its hypocrisy clear, The JC, 2 September, 2022.

    Previously the BBC has behaved as if it doesn’t matter what Bari Atwan has said elswhere. This week the JC asked the BBC to respond to his expression of sympathy for Sir Salman’s assailant in the US last month on its own News Channel. Bari Atwan told viewers that the Satanic Verses "is blasphemy completely and it is offensive", that Rushdie "was very, very cruel" and that "to talk about the wives of the Pro-phet is really very, very dangerous...freedom of expression is practiced only to insult Muslims."

    Such grotesque views are Bari Atwan’s stock in trade. Indeed, on the same day as as he attacked Sir Salman Rushdie on the BBC, he defended in an online piece Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to apologise for the mass murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

    The BBC’s response to its broadcasting these views was to describe Bari Awan’s appearance as "editorially justified".

    It went on: "If extreme views are expressed on the BBC, we would always seek to challenge them."

    Clearly the BBC considers describing Sir Salman Rushdie as a "very very dangerous" blasphemer is not extreme, since Bari Atwan was not challenged.
  28. ↑ Ruth Deech, In full: Baroness Deech's letter to the BBC, Sep 2, 2022.
  29. ↑ Jonathan Sacerdoti, Peer attacks BBC for 'glorifying terrorism', The JC, Sep 1, 2022.
    Abdel Bari Atwan appeared to express sympathy for the Rushdie assailant’s extremism on the BBC News Channel.
  30. ↑ Ben Bloch, BBC secretly reforms Arabic news output, The JC, December 8, 2022.

    The BBC has introduced a catalogue of reforms to its Arabic news service — including dropping the controversial terrorist sympathiser Abdel Bari Atwan as a pundit — in the wake of widespread criticism of the corporation's output, the JC can reveal. The moves are taking place behind closed doors, even as its Director-General continues to publicly defend Mr Atwan, who has expressed sympathy for Sir Salman Rushdie's attacker and defended the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympians. "Team leaders in BBC Arabic have told editors to stop using him [Atwan] because he said some problematic things on BBC English," a BBC source said. In response to an open letter, signed by 36 parliamentarians and public figures, demanding the broadcaster drop Atwan after reporting by the JC and media watchdog Camera, BBC Director-General Tim Davie insisted that using the pundit was "in the public interest". However, the JC can disclose that behind the scenes, Arabic editors were informally told to drop him. The source added: "We used to have him on a lot, but we have been told not to." Separately, the broadcaster is rolling out a package of reforms to the department. Amid job losses across the World Service, 70 positions are being cut in BBC Arabic. But at least four Output Monitors are being newly appointed to clean up Arabic language reporting, the source said. "They will watch BBC Arabic TV broadcasts both before they are aired and afterwards," the source said, "and monitor all the digital stuff to make sure it complies with guidelines." The source added: "The problem has been quality control. Attitudes in the Arab world are hostile to Israel, and this has been coming through BBC reporting via local journalists." The reforms — which suggest the BBC is starting to take seriously calls to tighten up its Arabic output — are being implemented for April while the broadcaster maintains its staunch public defence of its output. It comes after the corporation has suffered months of intense pressure about its Arabic-language service, which stands accused of repeated anti-Israel bias.

    According to the source, BBC top brass "read the riot act" to Arabic language journalists in a virtual meeting in the wake of the recent public criticism. "They said, 'we are defending you on this, but we can't do it forever. You must abide by the BBC guidelines from now on'."…
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