CAMERA UK prompts correction to BBC’s Gaza Strip backgrounder
As noted earlier this week, the most recent version of a BBC six year-old backgrounder about the Gaza Strip opened by telling readers that…
BBC’s longstanding Hizballah whitewashing continues in Beirut blast coverage
Daily Mirror calls Palestinian terror supporter a “human rights defender”
BBC News again ignores balloon terrorism from the Gaza Strip
Residents in the Western Negev region of Israel have seen the renewal of attacks from the Gaza Strip using airborne explosive devices in recent…
BBC Arabic’s mistranslations of an English language BBC article
Adam Levick interviewed on Neil Lazarus’s podcast – discussing media bias against Israel
Weekend long read
Reviewing BBC Arabic’s ‘Nakba Day’ photo feature
CAMERA UK prompts correction to BBC report on Golan Heights incident
Earlier this week we noted that a BBC News website report failed to provide readers with the accurate location of an attempted attack in…
Contrary to media claims, Wiley has not ‘apologised’ for his antisemitism
BBC ME editor shoehorns Israel into coverage of Beirut disaster
BBC News again reports Golan Heights incident after Israel responds
Late on August 2nd a security incident took place in the south Golan Heights. “The Israel Defense Forces on Monday said that following last…
The Times proclaims east Jerusalem is in “Palestinian territory”
The BBC, the Oslo Accords and the two-state solution
BBC NEWS COVERAGE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL – JULY 2020
BBC News website report claims ‘Wiley apologised’
Guardian promotes Seth Rogen’s breathtaking ignorance about Israel
A Guardian article by their Jerusalem correspondent Oliver Holmes (“Seth Rogen: ‘I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel’”, July 29) begins thusly:…
SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – JULY 2020
Weekend long read
Hamas leader debunks some BBC narratives
Among the narratives promoted by the BBC in recent years is the claim that Palestinian leaders aspire to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian…
Reviewing BBC Jerusalem bureau reporting on the Har Dov incident
BBC ME editor promotes speculations in border incident news report
Guardian downplays antisemitism of British Muslim charity official
‘Tel Aviv considers all of Jerusalem its capital’: Arabic media and the non-stop city
BBC’s Gaza Strip backgrounder claims Hamas rule ended six years ago
Members of the public searching online for information about the Gaza Strip produced by the BBC – which promotes itself as “the world’s most…
BBC website ignores resignation of UK charity official over antisemitism
Guardian revises caption of photo falsely evoking George Floyd
BBC News website report promotes inaccurate Iranian state media claim
At around 10 p.m. UTC on the evening of July 23rd the BBC News website published a report headlined “Israeli fighter jets challenge Iran…
Weekend long read
Sloppy wording misleads BBC News website readers
BBC’s Knell twice amplifies the false claim of a ‘siege’ on the Gaza Strip
Husam Zomlot, head of PA’s Mission to the UK, lies in The Times
BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ lets PLO rep’s falsehoods slide, avoids tough questions
Previously we saw how the BBC programme ‘Hardtalk’ presented the guest interviewed in its July 16th (television) and July 17th (radio) editions as “the…
BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ recycles an inaccuracy previously acknowledged and corrected
Sky News Arabia omits terror acts of Covid-19-infected Palestinian prisoner
BBC News erases Erdogan’s al Aqsa remarks from Hagia Sofia story
Between July 10th and July 12th the BBC News website published three reports relating to the Turkish president’s announcement concerning the conversion of the…
Weekend long read
BBC’s Bateman visits Hizballah tunnels but fails to tell the whole story
A response to anti-Israel op-ed by Beth Winter MP
A BBC WS radio history programme’s selective history
Guardian op-ed attacks liberal Zionists (or anyone supporting Israel’s existence)
We were expecting the Guardian to weigh in on Peter Beinart’s recent conversion from ‘liberal Zionist’ to anti-Zionist, and, sure enough, yesterday they published…
‘Hardtalk’ recycles the BBC’s Area C story talking points
BBC World Service radio airs speculation presented as ‘analysis’
BBC Arabic purports to present the views of Mizrahi “Jews who moved to Israel”
This is the sixth post in a series by CAMERA Arabic (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5) documenting how…
Weekend long read
Reviewing the impartiality of BBC website coverage of potential application of civil law to parts of Area C
Daily Mail retracts false claim that Oslo called for a Palestinian state
Reviewing the impartiality of BBC radio coverage of potential application of civil law to parts of Area C
BBC radio backtracks on non-starter story it promoted for weeks
Previously we discussed a report by BBC Jerusalem bureau correspondent Yolande Knell which appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme on June 30th: BBC…
The Sun and Scottish Sun correct omission on Egypt’s blockade of Gaza
UK paper corrects false claim that prominent British Jews support sanctions
Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part two
In part one of this post we discussed an interview with the Palestinian Authority’s representative in the UK, Husam Zomlot, which was aired on…
Economist errs in claiming grassroots org is “Israeli backed”
Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part one
SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – JUNE 2020