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May 27, 2022

BBC ME editor Jeremy Bowen’s annual Lebanon story

On May 23rd the BBC’s Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen tweeted a thread about an incident which occ...

May 26, 2022

BBC News again warps portrayal of Arabs in Israeli government

Over the past week the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page has published two reports by Raff...

May 25, 2022

Eighteen terror victims and one journalist on the BBC News website

Previously we have looked at some of the coverage of the death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Ak...

May 24, 2022

BBC WS radio’s ‘The Real Story’ shy on antisemitic conspiracy theory

The racially motivated murders of ten people in Buffalo, NY, earlier this month have prompted quite ...

May 23, 2022

BBC reports unnecessarily qualify Palestinian rioting in Jerusalem

On the evening of May 16th severe disturbances took place in Jerusalem during the funeral of Walid a...

May 22, 2022

BBC News website continues to promote narratives on Abu Akleh death

When Abba Eban died in 2002, the BBC News website reported that: “He was also one of Israel’...

May 20, 2022

BBC’s ECU partly upholds eleven-month-old complaint

Almost a year ago Mr Stephen Franklin made a complaint to the BBC about news bulletins aired on BBC ...

May 19, 2022

A narrative and a libel on BBC WS radio’s Newshour

The lead item (from 00:10 here) in the May 11th afternoon edition of BBC World Service radio’s ‘...

May 18, 2022

BBC WS radio promotion of the ‘Israel targets journalists’ libel

As we have previously documented (see ‘related articles’ below) early cross-platform BBC reporti...

May 17, 2022

BBC Radio 4 and the Al Jazeera narrative – part two

In part one of this post we listed recurrent issues arising from BBC Radio 4 reporting on the shooti...