"Huwaida Arraf, a founder of the International Solidarity Movement, a leader of the Free Gaza Movement and a passenger on one of the "flotilla" vessels got to have her say on BBC Newsnight with anchor Kirsty Wark on June 2, 2010. Arraf made numerous absurd accusations against Israel with a straight face, and the interviewer let her get away with it. Trusting viewers — that is trusting the BBC to poke holes in a guest's dubious story — were led astray.
To her credit, Wark did begin by noting that videos of the Israeli landing on the Mavi Marmara, the large Turkish ship where passengers assaulted Israeli naval commandos, showed those on board were armed and ready with "sticks." Arraf, seemingly pained by the injection of such uncontestable context, simply denied knowledge of the reality documented in video clips appearing globally on networks and the Internet."
