Area C

January 1, 2021

An overview of the BBC News website’s main Israel stories in 2020

Although the Coronavirus pandemic was obviously the big story of 2020, the BBC News website gave con...

December 16, 2020

BBC’s Yolande Knell ditches critical journalism to promote EU and NGO campaigns

The Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II) signed by th...

November 8, 2020

BBC reports erase foreign funding of illegal structures in Area C

On the afternoon of November 5th a report appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ pag...

August 21, 2020

Inaccuracies in BBC Arabic’s ‘settlements’ backgrounder

A post by CAMERA Arabic On July 1st, as the BBC was busy promoting the narrative that extension of I...

August 19, 2020

Inaccuracies in BBC reporting on the Israel-UAE agreement – part two

As documented here earlier, BBC reporting on the announcement concerning the normalisation of relat...

August 18, 2020

Inaccuracies in BBC reporting on the Israel-UAE agreement – part one

As readers no doubt recall, throughout June the BBC devoted considerable resources to coverage of th...

August 2, 2020

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – JULY 2020

Throughout the month of July 2020, seventeen written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or the...

July 17, 2020

Weekend long read

1) Writing at the Jerusalem Post, Dr Jonathan Spyer asks ‘Will Egypt fight Turkey in Libya?’. â€...

July 17, 2020

BBC’s Bateman visits Hizballah tunnels but fails to tell the whole story

When, in late 2018 and early 2019, Israel discovered several tunnels dug underneath its northern bor...

July 15, 2020

‘Hardtalk’ recycles the BBC’s Area C story talking points

Our review of coverage of the potential application of Israeli civilian law to specific parts of Are...