Record complaints filed over UK press smear of anti-genocide artist Misan Harriman

Record complaints filed over UK press smear of anti-genocide artist Misan Harriman Submitted by Fleur Hargreaves on Wed, 05/13/2026 - 17:41 Media outlets face backlash after misrepresenting remarks made by Southbank Centre chair over Golders Green attack Misan Harriman attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood on 10 March 2024 (Mike Coppola/Getty Images/AFP) Off The highest recorded volume of complaints has been made to a  UK media watchdog against right-wing news outlets accused of a coordinated smear of Misan Harriman, an Oscar-nominated photographer and Southbank Centre chair. The complaint tool, set up by media accountability platform NewsCord, surpassed 50,000 submissions after just 48 hours of being posted, and has now registered over 76,000 complaints.  This more than triples the previous record of around 25,000 complaints made to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) over Jeremy Clarkson’s 2022 column on Meghan Markle in The Sun. Harriman came under attack by the British press after sharing a post questioning why the police and media ignored a Muslim victim targeted prior to the Golders Green attack on two Jewish men. He also shared a video focused on community building in light of Reform's local election wins, which used a quote from Jewish-American writer Susan Sontag about human behaviour. He was accused of spreading a “Golders Green ‘conspiracy’”, despite the question he raised being based in fact – the papers repeatedly referred to “two men stabbed”, when it was in fact three – and even though the press used an out-of-context clip from the video to falsely allege he was comparing Reform voters to the Nazis. In response, more t...

Original source: Middle East Eye