SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – DECEMBER 2020
Throughout the month of December 2020, twenty-eight written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or the Palestinians appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle…
Bethlehem Christmas
Seasonal politicisation goes unchallenged on BBC Radio Scotland
The December 13th edition of the BBC Radio Scotland programme ‘Sunday Morning’ included an item (from 1:07:48 here) described as follows in the synopsis:…
Summary of BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians – January 2020
Our monthly overview of BBC News website reporting.
Summary of BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians – December 2019
All of the BBC News website’s December reporting concerning Palestinians came within the framework of one-sided Christmas coverage.
Unpacking the Indy’s latest tale of ‘Israeli cruelty’
Palestinian children never travel for treatment unaccompanied by a parent or (at least) a relative. COGAT informed us that “during the first half of 2019, over 2,700 permits were issued for children’s medical treatment, with a nearly equivalent number issued for accompanying parents”. The image evoked by the language in the op-ed, of children alone in Israeli hospitals without family members, is, as with the broader narrative of the Indy op-ed, pure fiction.
Guardian evokes analogy between Israel’s security fence and Soviet Iron Curtain
In short: Soviet Bloc countries’ fences kept their own citizens from leaving. Israel’s fence keeps hostile non-citizens from entering. Any suggestion that both of these measures are morally or politically analogous is simply absurd.
BBC Radio 4 religious show airs anodyne report on Palestinian Christians
Yet another BBC report on Palestinian Christians avoids narrative-conflicting issues.
BBC WS radio airs anti-terrorist fence falsehoods
BBC WS audiences are told that there have not been any terror attacks in Israel for three years.
Media Turn Banksy’s Small Anti-Israel Installation into Major News
Written by Tamar Sternthal A major media event has hit the biblical town of Bethlehem, Jesus’ birthplace, just days before Christmas: The secretive artist…
BBC News again self-conscripts to Banksy’s Israel delegitimisation
The BBC once again undermines its own impartiality by promoting agitprop.