COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
It’s quite telling that of all the political analysts the Indy journalist could have asked to comment, she chose a radical, anti-Zionist extremist who employs tropes about Zionism’s putative collusion with Nazism so vile they’d likely make Ken Livingstone blush.
Whilst nobody familiar with Banksy would be surprised by his use of imagery associated with classic antisemitism, it’s troubling that journalists who pride themselves on critically scrutinising every Israeli claim didn’t challenge the pro-Palestinian artist when he floated the risible claim that his latest project was benignly designed to promote dialogue.
The February 23rd edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘World Have Your Say’ – which claims to “host your conversations, experiences and…
Readers may recall that on January 2nd the BBC Arabic website published a report on the death of Hilarion Capucci which included less than…
Last month we noted that a BBC News website article promoted inaccurate information which the BBC itself had already clarified twenty months earlier. “The consequence…
Since mid-December 2016 the BBC has produced numerous reports which have included portrayal of the story of the proposed relocation of the US embassy…
In addition to the reporting on last week’s conference in Paris seen on the BBC News website (discussed here), the corporation of course also…
Are Israeli homes built across the green line only considered “illegal settlement construction” when the homes are built for Jews?
The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday‘ claims that it gives listeners “a look at the ethical and religious issues of the week”. However, the…
Beyond the bias within this specific Guardian analysis, the truth is that UK media coverage of negotiations similarly suffers from the failure to take Israeli concerns seriously – rational fears born of the failure of past territorial withdrawals to bring peace, and a refusal to ignore the reactionary Palestinian political culture which – most Israeli believe – lays at the root of the conflict.