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CAMERA-UK (formerly UK Media Watch and BBC Watch) is the UK division of the US based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and…
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BBC News website corrects inaccurate description of Israeli MK
Having received no response from the BBC News website, BBC Watch submitted a complaint.
Indy corrects a Robert Fisk smear of UN Watch – but errors remain
Editors at the Independent upheld our complaint that an op-ed by Robert Fisk included a baseless smear of the group UN Watch, and revised the relevant passage accordingly. However, another false claim in the piece has yet to be corrected.
Economist corrects article alleging ’40 year US policy’ that settlements are “illegal”
Editors upheld our complaint after we provided evidence demonstrating that between the late 1970s and 2016, there was not one president or secretary of state who labeled the settlements “illegal”. Rather, most – other than Ronald Reagan, who explicitly rejected the view that they were illegal – have characterised them as politically “illegitimate”, or an obstacle to peace, without taking a position on their legal status.
BBC News’ Plett Usher fails on fact checking
BBC audiences given information that has been out of date for over six years.
Guardian falsely asserts 40 year US position that settlements are “illegal”
Contrary to the Guardian’s claim that the new US declaration rejects the US legal position on the issue since 1978, the 1978 US State Department Hansell Memorandum they’re referring to, which maintained that settlements are illegal, was not the basis of 40 years of U.S. policy, a time period which includes Ronald Reagan’s policy which held that the settlements are not illegal.
Independent gets it wrong on number of terrorists among Palestinian casualties
An article at the Independent by their Mid-East correspondent Bel Trew yesterday shortly after hostilities between Islamic Jihad and Israel commenced yesterday morning was relatively balanced – at least by Indy standards. However, today’s piece on the conflict contains two significant errors.
BBC clarifies inaccurate claim by Jeremy Bowen but fails to meet editorial guidelines
BBC editorial guidelines stipulate that errors in on-demand content should at least be flagged up by a visible correction but BBC R4 fails to do so.
Inaccurate BBC Yom Kippur war claim – 14 years and counting
Despite having corrected one report six years ago, the BBC still disseminates inaccurate information.
BBC News website gives Israel’s prime minister an upgrade
The dearth of BBC fact checking strikes again.