December, 2014

December 5, 2014

BBC does ‘Sun Watch’

Followers of the BBC Press Office Twitter account may have been surprised to see on December 3rd tha...

December 4, 2014

Political messaging and inaccuracies in BBC Radio 4’s ‘Terror Through Time’

On December 2nd another edition of the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Terror Through Time’ (present...

December 4, 2014

UK media absurd political analogy watch: The Berlin Wall & Israel's Security Barrier

Ben Zygier (known as Prisoner X) was the Australian-Israeli Mossad agent imprisoned at Ayalon Prison...

December 4, 2014

How Hamas put a tax on building materials the BBC told audiences don’t exist

As readers no doubt recall, on November 28th listeners to the BBC World Service radio programme R...

December 3, 2014

Per the Guardian: A Palestinian certainly got shot; Israelis possibly "got stabbed"

A few hours ago, A Palestinian terrorist (reportedly from the West Bank town Al-Azariya) stabbed t...

December 3, 2014

Overview of BBC reporting on recent violence and terror in Israel

Since late October much of the BBC’s Israel-related subject matter has been focused on the sur...

December 3, 2014

Guardian Letter: Palestinians are indigenous to the land, descendants of Canaanites

A letter published in the Guardian on Dec. 3, by Maher Othman of London, opened with the following p...

December 3, 2014

BBC Israel focus in numbers: November 2014

Below is our regular end of month count of articles appearing on the Middle East page of the BBC N...

December 2, 2014

BBC R 4’s ‘Terror Through Time’ asks a silly question, gets a silly answer

The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Terror Through Time’ – presented by Fergal Keane – is bac...

December 2, 2014

CiF Watch prompts another UK media correction to ‘fired’ Arab workers claim

As we noted in a post yesterday, CiF Watch recently prompted a correction to a Dec. 1st Times of Lo...