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July 7, 2020

BBC NEWS COVERAGE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL – JUNE 2020

The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during June 2020 shows that throug...

July 7, 2020

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...

July 6, 2020

Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part one

Between mid-May and the end of June the BBC devoted considerable efforts to the preemptive framing o...

July 5, 2020

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – JUNE 2020

Throughout the month of June 2020, fourteen written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or the ...

July 3, 2020

One issue, two complaints and two different BBC responses

One thing that members of the public who fund the BBC – and its complaints procedure – should su...

July 2, 2020

BBC Radio 4 listeners told Israel ‘officially’ rejects the two-state solution

Since mid-May the BBC has devoted much energy, air-time and column space to the preemptive framing o...

July 1, 2020

BBC ‘Focus on Africa’ interviewer uses ‘white Jews’ stereotype

On June 24th the BBC News website posted a video on its ‘Middle East’ page with the headline “...

June 30, 2020

Another history-free ‘annexation backgrounder’ from BBC News

Despite the fact that the June 16th written backgrounder titled “Israel, annexation and the West B...

June 29, 2020

BBC’s Knell fails to challenge the PA on decision affecting healthcare

On June 14th we noted that BBC audiences had not seen any reporting on how Mahmoud Abbas’ May 19th...

June 29, 2020

Bateman’s ‘annexation’ road trip reveals nothing new to BBC audiences

The BBC’s generous coverage of an event which has not happened (see ‘related articles’ below) ...