As we demonstrated in a post yesterday, the Guardian’s self-conscription to a campaign accusing Israel of intentionally killing Palestinian journalists was effectively copied and pasted from the two organisations which launched the PR blitz – one of which, Avaaz, is a longtime supporter of BDS.

However, what little original reporting was done by the Guardian journalist, Annie Kelly, was compromised by an egregious error, when she wrote that “the Israeli military said it deliberately targeted…Anas al-Sharif, who had reported on the war since its outset”, and that “no evidence has ever been offered by the Israelis to substantiate their claim that Sharif was a Hamas terrorist.”

As we noted in a complaint to Guardian editors, their own coverage at the time of the attack on al-Sharif acknowledged that the military showed Hamas salary records indicating he received payments from the terror group.

Our complaint was upheld, and the sentence claiming that “no evidence has ever been offered by the Israelis to substantiate their claim that Sharif was a Hamas terrorist” was removed, and replaced with this: “The IDF claimed it had evidence that Sharif was a Hamas terrorist“.

The following editor’s note, grudgingly acknowledging the revision, was added at the bottom of the article:

The lack of self-awareness by Guardian editors about Israeli evidence not being “independently verified“, a litmus test they rarely apply to unevidenced Hamas claims, is as predictable as it is shameful.

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