BBC News continues to promote dubiously sourced Gaza statistics
On February 28th an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the headline “Israel’s Netanyahu criticised over 2014 Gaza war…
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Revisiting the BBC News website’s PFLP profile
Following the terror attack at the Kehilat Ya’akov Synagogue in the Har Nof neighbourhood of Jerusalem on November 18th 2014, the BBC News website produced…
Reviewing BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians in Q2 2016 – part two
As noted in part one of this post, between April 1st and June 30th 2016, fifty-four reports relating to Israel and/or the Palestinians (along with others relating…
The BBC’s reporting of statistics and Gaza casualty ratios
h/t D On August 10th the BBC Trust published the findings of a review of the impartiality of the BBC’s reporting of statistics in…
A retrospective look at BBC coverage of the Second Lebanon War – part three
As was noted in part two of this post, some of the themes found in BBC coverage of the Second Lebanon War a decade…
Why the accuracy and impartiality of BBC reporting matters
Last week a debate on the conditions and health of Palestinian children was held in the House of Lords. As noted by NGO Monitor,…
Revisiting the BBC’s source of 2014 Gaza casualty data
Readers may recall that a few days into the summer 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas, BBC Watch decided to try to track down…
Organisation quoted by BBC hosts terror glorification event
Regular readers of BBC News reports concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will not infrequently come across information sourced from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s Ramallah…
BBC bases rejection of complaint on word of anti-Israel NGOs
In April 2015, listeners to an item about the plight of Christians in the Middle East broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme were…
Source of BBC’s ‘war crimes’ allegations lies about Palestinian victim of terror
As our CAMERA colleague Tamar Sternthal recently noted, a Palestinian victim of a terror attack which took place at Alon Shvut junction on November…