1947 Partition Plan

November 8, 2024

BBC’s Wyre Davies misleads on Israeli history

Over the years we have repeatedly documented distortions and inaccuracies in BBC content relating to...

May 24, 2024

Revisiting the editorial policy behind BBC portrayal of Israel’s capital city

Last month the BBC’s Mark Urban announced that he would be leaving the ‘Newsnight’ team after ...

March 29, 2024

Reviewing BBC Arabic’s peace options ‘documentary’

On March 25th the BBC World Service put out the following Tweet: The link that follows the question ...

June 28, 2023

BBC backgrounders’ presentation of ‘facts’ mislead on Jerusalem

The ‘updates’ section of the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page informs us that on June...

May 18, 2023

The Economist needs a new Mid-East correspondent

An Economist article (“The Palestinians need new leaders”, May 11) begins with context-f...

March 26, 2023

BBC account of ‘a fire in Aleppo’ erases Jewish history

On the evening of March 22nd the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten titled ‘Olde...

July 25, 2022

The FCDO, the BBC and Israel’s capital

Writing at the Spectator, Stephen Daisley discusses the UK’s failure to recognise Jerusalem as Isr...

December 3, 2021

BBC WS radio’s ‘The Explanation’ flops on Palestinian-Israeli conflict – part two

Previously we discussed the first half of the November 27th edition of a BBC World Service radio pro...

December 2, 2021

BBC WS radio’s ‘The Explanation’ flops on Palestinian-Israeli conflict – part one

BBC World Service radio programming currently includes a series called ‘The Explanation’ which i...

February 1, 2021

Jerusalem: where BBC and PLO approaches meet

The final item in the January 25th evening edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsh...