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Guardian fails to label Hamas chief ‘terrorist’ in obituary

The Guardian’s obituary of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was recently assassinated in Tehran, labelled him a “politician” rather than a terrorist, despite him leading a proscribed terrorist organisation.

In the tribute, Haniyeh was described as “burly and genial in demeanour” and a “keen footballer and devout Muslim”. Having lived in Doha, Qatar since 2017, he was the leader of the 15-member political bureau that runs Hamas.

Fact Check: UK’s Starmer op-ed headline on Islam in The Guardian is fake

An image shared online purporting to show an opinion column headline written by Britain’s opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer about Islam and the LGBTQ+ community is fake.

The fabricated headline reads: “Islam has embraced the LGBTQ+ community. My aim is to get Britain to embrace Islam,” and is found in an image, opens new tab copying the layout of The Guardian newspaper. The image also features a headshot of Starmer.

Deborah Cotton Made Us Face the Truth About America's Past

Hertsgaard is the author of seven previous books that have been translated into a total of seventeen languages. He is the environment correspondent for The Nation and the executive director of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now Deborah “Big Red” Cotton and I met by getting shot together. It was a Mother’s Day afternoon during Barack Obama’s second term as America’s first Black president. We were two of 19 people gunned down in the biggest mass shooting in the modern history of New Orleans, a city stained by racism...

Why You Are More Likely to Die on Your Birthday

The birthday effect is a real statistical phenomenon in which you are at increased risk of dying on, or near, your birthday. In a Swiss study of mortality data, 13.8% more people older than 60 died on their own birthday than any other day. According to The Guardian, a 2016 Japanese study of mortality from major external causes confirmed that people were “more likely to die on their birthday than any other calendar day” by means of suicide, traffic accidents, drowning, and choking. For suicide cases in particular, people are...

Mehdi Hasan joins The Guardian

The progressive pundit Mehdi Hasan is joining The Guardian following his abrupt departure from MSNBC.

The Guardian US on Wednesday said that Hasan would join the news organization as a regular columnist, publishing his first column on Wednesday calling for President Joe Biden to pressure the Israeli government to “end this genocide” of Palestinians in Gaza.

The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden Letter After TikTok Panic

The Guardian has taken down a letter written by Osama bin Laden after it inspired social media posts co-signing his critique of the United States.

The outlet replaced a transcript of the jihadist’s 2002 “letter to the American people” with a context note after a surge of related TikToks made it the second-most-viewed page on the site Wednesday.

By Julie Mastrine, 8 December, 2022