February, 2017

February 20, 2017

BBC’s sketchy reporting on Gaza power crisis highlighted

BBC reporting on the topic of the perennial electricity shortage in the Gaza Strip has long been not...

February 20, 2017

BBC News and the US ‘major policy shift’ that wasn’t

On February 15th visitors to the BBC News website came across two articles telling them that the new...

February 19, 2017

Guardian whitewashes charges of antisemitism against Malia Bouattia

The journalist's decision to quote Bouattia expressing her view that "blatant antisemitism should no...

February 19, 2017

How the BBC invents ‘new settlements’ with lax language

We have on many occasions documented the use of imprecise language in BBC reports which results in a...

February 19, 2017

BBC’s ME editor ditches impartiality in portrayal of ‘international law’

h/t RM When Jeremy Bowen was appointed to the post of Middle East editor in 2005, that role was desc...

February 17, 2017

Weekend long read

1) The Jewish News has an interview with the creator of a new documentary concerning reporting from ...

February 17, 2017

BBC News website’s explanation of the two-state solution falls short

h/t AO In late December 2016 the BBC News website published an article that included an insert title...

February 16, 2017

The BBC and book bans – real and imagined

Readers may recall that in late 2015 and early 2016, various BBC radio programmes misled their audie...

February 16, 2017

BBC’s ‘The Big Questions’ brings in pro-BDS NGOs to talk Israel trade

h/t SJ The first discussion topic in the February 12th edition of BBC One’s “moral, ethi...

February 15, 2017

UKMW prompts Indy correction over Shai Masot claim

Indy editors upheld our complaint and amended the passage, which now at least includes Erdan's unequ...