BBC’s ‘Newsround’ breaches BBC Academy style guide
A Christmas photo feature aimed at children breaches the BBC’s own style guide on ‘Israel and the Palestinians’.
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Summary of BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians – November 2019
Once again BBC audiences saw no reporting on internal Palestinian affairs.
BBC Travel serves up politicised narrative in food item yet again
BBC Travel’s promotion of partial political messaging in ‘life-style’ articles continues.
Examining the rationale behind BBC policy on Jerusalem
Over the years we have documented numerous examples of the BBC’s refusal to call Jerusalem Israel’s capital city. “The BBC does not call Jerusalem…
Examining the rationale behind BBC policy on Israel’s capital
Not only is the BBC’s ‘rationale’ regarding Israel’s capital misguided, it is not even applied uniformly and impartially.
Guardian employs ‘What would Jesus think?’ trope to sell anti-Israel narrative
If the Guardian reporter wanted to really meditate upon what Jesus would think of the modern Jewish state, he could explore the state’s record in safeguarding the rights of its Christian community, and how this contrasts with the persecution of Christians in the rest of the Mid-East. Or, more relevant to the topic at hand, he could report on the state’s internationally recognised advances in water technology, such as desalination.
Top 5 Guardian anti-Israel smears, distortions and lies in 2018
Narrowing down an entire year of Guardian anti-Israel reporting to the five most egregious examples is not an easy task, but, as a public service to our loyal readers, here are a few errors and lies by their contributors and reporters in 2018 which especially stand out.
Despite media narrative, Palestinians are far from ‘woke’
Palestinians, it seems, are not quite the peace and social justice warriors of media lore. They are arguably ‘far-right’, and certainly far from ‘woke’.
A Guardian contributor’s artful lie on Gaza’s declining Christian population
Such holiday trickery reminds us that though events in the region may change from year to year, the British media’s annual tradition of blaming Israel for ruining ‘Christmas in Palestine’ continues, unimpeded by facts, statistics or even the most painfully obvious observations.
BBC Radio 4’s selective framing of the “hardships” of Gaza Christians
The ‘Today’ programme tells listeners that Gaza’s Christian population lives happily under Hamas rule.