Qatar’s state-owned media house, Al Jazeera, is a mockery on the face of free, fair, and fierce media houses operating all across the world. Wiki Leaks claimed that Al Jazeera, a mouthpiece piece of the Qatari regime has been used as a bargaining tool to make foreign policy negotiations by twisting its coverage to suit other foreign leaders and offering to cease critical transmissions in exchange for major concessions.

Wikileaks revealed that the regime’s control over the channel’s reporting is so direct that it was part of the negotiations made between Qatar’s the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani and former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Qatar proposed a bargain to Egypt, that it would stop broadcasts in Egypt if Cairo changed its stand over Israel-Palestinian issue.

Last week, the organisation alsoput up an antisemitic video on the Holocaust, released via Facebook and Twitter by network affiliate AJ+Arabic. The video questioned the number of Jewish Holocaust victims and added that Israel is the biggest “winner” from the Holocaust and that it uses Nazi justifications for annihilating the Palestinians.Al-Qaradawi in a video released on Al-Jazeera channel said,“The Holocaust Was “Divine Punishment” For The Jews; “Allah Willing, The Next Time Will Be At The Hand Of The Believers”.

In a recent interview, Mohamed Fahmy, a former Al-Jazeera English journalist exposed how Al Jazeera disseminated the propaganda messages of terrorist groups and cooperated with them through illegal and unethical ways of newsgathering. He shamed the organisation which, in his words, ‘destroyed the noble meaning of citizen journalism by supplying members of groups designated as terrorists with filming equipment, money in return for footage and finances in general so that these groups can facilitate for them access into conflict zones and areas where it’s hard to report from’.

Fahmy also revealed how Al Jazeera ironically stood for democratic values during the “Arab Spring” and spent millions of dollars on it but failed to do anything on the likes of people’s rule in Qatar, a nation that has no parliament, labor unions, press unions and zero press freedom. He accused the media house of not raising voice against the regime, which ‘sentenced Qatari poet Mohamed Al Ajami to life in prison for a poem, stripped several Qatari journalists of their citizenship for writing critical opinion pieces on the government’s performance, stripped 6000 tribesman of their citizenship, and fabricated a case against their iconic justice minister Dr. Najib Al Nuaimi just because he spoke critically of Qatar’s policies and support for terror outfits.

Al Jazeera is a mere model of public diplomacy conveniently used by Qatari royals.