On September 16, Arab Media Watch commemorates the 22nd anniversary of the massacres of Palestinians in Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by publishing a press release by the Badil Resource Centre for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, and Robert Fisk's article at the time of the massacres, which is considered one of the 101 masterpieces from the finest writers and reporters in the "Mammoth Book of Journalism".

AMW laments the fact that the anniversary of this atrocity went completely unreported in the British press.

Arab Media Watch welcomes the British Council's decision to terminate the employment of its senior press office Harry Cummins, following the results of its internal investigation which found that he was the author of 4 deeply offensive, inciteful articles about Islam and Muslims that appeared in the Sunday Telegraph in July 2004 under the pseudonym Will Cummins.

AMW thanks its members and the public for the strong response to its Action Alert calling for the dismissal of Cummins, for the mobilisation of other organisations, and for the investigation by the Guardian's Marina Hyde into his identity, the results of which, according to the newspaper, prompted "a flood of complaints to the council".

AMW joins the Muslim Council of Britain in urging the Sunday Telegraph to take action against its editor Dominic Lawson for the articles' publication.