More inaccurate and context-free Gaza framing on BBC Radio 4
The BBC’s world affairs editor joins Radio 4’s promotion of an inaccurate and politically motivated narrative.
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Guardian claim on the views of Arab Israelis doesn’t hold up to scrutiny
A 2016 Israeli Institute for Democracy poll did show that serious tensions between Arabs and Jews persist, but that most Arab Israelis (55%) are nonetheless proud to be Israeli. The bottom line is that the Guardian writer’s contention that ‘Arab-Israelis’ reject their Israeli identity, and primarily identify as ‘Palestinians’, simply does not hold up to critical scrutiny.
After second complaint, BBC clarifies inaccurate claim about Israel’s Christian population
The programme is however still currently available in its inaccurate form.
The BBC’s response to a complaint about Christians in Israel
BBC Complaints’ response to an inaccurate claim on Radio 4.
Reviewing the BBC’s record of reporting on Israeli elections
Previous BBC coverage of Israeli elections gives a clue to likely framing of upcoming reporting.
Guardian falsely blames Israel for shortages of medicine in Gaza
Once again, we see how the Guardian seems to be institutionally incapable of holding Palestinian leadership even partly responsible for the misery in Gaza. It’s a pattern of coverage informed by an ideologically-driven propensity to deny Palestinians agency: the seeming belief that, as individuals, they lack the capacity to act independently of Israel and make choices of their own free will.
No surprises in BBC Radio 4’s leading stories of 2019 forecast
In which Syria, Lebanon, the Kurds and the Iranian people lose out to hair colour and take-aways.
The BBC, 2018 ‘fake news’ and fact checking
The BBC’s focus on ‘fake news’ should begin at home.
No, a Texas woman did NOT lose her job for refusing to sign “pro-Israel pledge”
Here’s the headline of a Dec. 18th article at The Independent: The claim that a Texas woman was forced to sign a “pro-Israel pledge”…
Unpacking Financial Times claim that Tel Aviv’s high-tech boom ‘stokes inequality’
A Financial Times article (Israel’s tech expansion stokes glaring inequality in Tel Aviv, Dec. 11) echoes a common MSM narrative about the putative relationship between wealth…