Public Purposes

July 23, 2013

BBC tweaks Hizballah statement, promotes its conspiracy theories

The website of Hizballah’s Al Manar TV station carries details of a statement put out on July...

July 23, 2013

BBC reports on Palestinian ‘detainees’, but not their crimes

On July 20th 2013 an article entitled “Israel to free Palestinian prisoners over Kerry talks&#...

July 22, 2013

Keeping BBC audience’s eyes on the ‘settlements’ ball

Predictably, the BBC has been busy over the past few days churning out a flurry of articles on the s...

July 19, 2013

The Christians who do not fit into the BBC’s Middle East narrative

A few weeks ago the BBC covered the subject of the recent Middle East tour made by the new Archbisho...

July 19, 2013

A long history of complaints of BBC distortion by omission

“The presentation of the Palestine issue to the British public by the BBC has, for the last tw...

July 18, 2013

BBC promotes PA lies about Israeli planning decisions

On July 17th 2013 the BBC News website’s Middle East page featured an article entitled “...

July 17, 2013

Inaccuracies and omissions in BBC article on new EU guidelines

A Tweet from Jeremy Bowen on the morning of July 16th gave an inkling of a BBC article to come – a...