The Times abandons journalism in profile of ‘angelic’ Palestinian activists
Let’s begin by noting that the piece published in The Times (“The Gen Z activist twins of Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem”, July 17) by Charlotte…
Weekend long read
Four incidents of Gaza rocket fire get twelve words from BBC News
Yom Kippur
Gmar Hatima Tova to all our readers marking the Day of Atonement.
Guardian’s former Jerusalem correspondent is up to his old tricks
BBC editorial guidelines on contributors’ affiliations ignored yet again
The Guardian’s Simon Tisdall isn’t buying Israeli ‘claims’ about Palestinian terrorism
BBC’s Bateman avoids the word terror in report on escaped prisoners
Indy story on Gaza’s woes plays word games to avoid mentioning Hamas
A report in the Independent by Middle East correspondent Bel Trew about the impact of Hamas’s wars with Israel on pollution in Gaza did…
BBC Travel again promotes political narrative in ‘lifestyle’ article
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No BBC follow-up on Algerian judoka story
In July the BBC published a report about an Algerian judoka who was sent home after refusing to compete against an Israeli at the…
Sky News (in Arabic) suggests all of Israel is a “settlement”
BBC again flouts editorial guidelines in interview with ‘activist’
Shana Tova!
OFCOM public consultation reminder
Guardian obit for ‘Zorba the Greek’ composer omits his antisemitism
A nearly two-thousand word Sept. 2nd Guardian obituary for Mikis Theodorakis, written by Gail Holst-Warhaft, failed to note his record of explicit antisemitism. Unlike…
BBC NEWS COVERAGE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL – AUGUST 2021
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Another example of BBC double standards on disputed territories
On August 31st the BBC News website published a report headlined “Cyprus on alert as Syrian oil slick spreads across Mediterranean” on its ‘Middle…
The Times corrects claim Israel occupied east Jerusalem since 1948
SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – AUGUST 2021
Guardian strangely claims Israel “barely noticed” Nizar Banat’s murder
BBC News describes Hamas terrorist pictured with grenade as ‘a man’
Financial Times embraces anti-Israel group, slouches towards critical theory abyss
A positive Financial Times profile of the anti-Israel London-based group we’ve posted about recently called Forensic Architecture (FA) noted that FA was responsible for…
More superficial BBC reporting on crime in Israeli Arab sector
It’s time for the British media to stop normalising Abdel Bari Atwan
Economist gets Israeli view of Palestinian conflict completely wrong
We recently came across an Economist article published during the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel that gets the Israeli view of their conflict…
BBC’s Palestinian territories timeline inaccurate on dates of ‘key events’