Vanessa Beeley
Vanessa Beeley is a British activist and blogger.
She is known for her pro-Bashar al-Assad advocacy, and for promoting conspiracy theories and falsehoods about the Syrian Civil War, in particular the White Helmets who she falsely claims are a terrorist organization. She frequently appears on the Russian state propaganda networks RT and Sputnik. She is an editor on the conspiracy website 21st Century Wire. In 2017, Russia submitted a report to the United Nations Security Council that falsely linked the White Helmets to al-Qaeda; the report was based on a presentation given by Beeley earlier that year. She has falsely claimed that the White Helmets engage in organ harvesting.
In 2016, she met with Assad, describing it as her "proudest moment". She has said that George Soros paid the United Nations to conclude that Assad used chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War. She has claimed that al-Qaeda was not behind the September 11 attacks, that the Charlie Hebdo shooting was staged, and that "Zionists rule France." In private chats which were later leaked, she admitted that the Assad regime uses torture, but said in those chats that she would never publicly state so.
She is the daughter of a former British diplomat. She is a former consultant to a waste management company in the Middle East.
