BBC News website removes inaccurate claim from online profile
Once again BBC Complaints fails to comply with the time frame for responses.
correction
Sky News Arabia’s Jerusalem: the sun shines, the wind blows and Jews ‘storm the mosque’
Little is new in Sky News Arabia’s world: the sun shines, the wind blows, and Jewish settlers “storm al-Aqsa Mosque”. Thus, the British-Emirati network’s portrayal of virtually all Israeli and Jewish presence at the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, as illegitimate, has encompassed twenty-two exclusive news items over less than two years.
Summary of BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians – May 2019
Visitors to the BBC News website saw no coverage of internal Palestinian affairs throughout May.
Sky News Arabia claims “5 million Palestinian refugees”….in 1949!
Contrary to Sky News Arabia’s claim, the actual number of Palestinians UNRWA was mandated in 1949 to provide aid is around 750,000
Guardian article on Gaza economic woes erases Hamas
The fact that there’s still a blockade after 12 years is not the result of Israeli malevolence, but the consequences of Hamas’s extremist ideology and their refusal to meet these reasonable conditions – an incredibly intuitive cause and effect that somehow manages to elude putatively intelligent and well-informed journalists.
Guardian columnist complains about those who “cry wolf” over antisemitism
Providing a voice for: demonisation of Israel and ‘right wing’ Jews; defence of anti-Zionists; gaslighting of Jews who complain of antisemitism; and the legitimisation of even the most indefensible pro-Palestinian claims – all in a days work for Guardian editors.
Guardian’s Ian Black gets ‘trigger’ for latest conflict wrong
Ian Black, the Guardian former Middle East editor, managed to blame Israel for the latest round of violence with Hamas, despite the fact that his own paper reported the sequence of events accurately.
BBC’s Lyse Doucet reports election campaign speculation as fact
The BBC’s chief international correspondent dreams up new ‘background’ to Israel’s election.
BBC News corrects inaccurate ‘Palestinian unity government’ claims
Three items of BBC content have been corrected.
Reviewing BBC News website pre-election coverage
The topic of what concerns the Israeli voter was once again completely ignored by the BBC.