Arson attacks

August 8, 2018

BBC’s sanitisation of deliberate Gaza border violence continues

On August 7th the BBC News website published an article titled “Israeli tank fire kills two Ha...

July 18, 2018

BBC News amplifies terror group and political NGO in crossing report

A BBC report promotes contradictory information concerning Kerem Shalom crossing. ...

July 18, 2018

UNRWA spokesman’s biased polemic goes unchallenged on BBC R4 ‘Today’ – part two

After 11 minutes and 40 seconds of BBC R4 coverage of a Gaza story, audiences had still not been inf...

July 13, 2018

A two and a half minute BBC News video on a story ignored for three months

BBC News ticks a box. ...

July 11, 2018

After three months, BBC News website notices Gaza arson attacks

No crystal ball was necessary in order to predict that after three months of largely ignoring the Ga...

July 9, 2018

Comparing BBC coverage of fires in England and Israel

Fires have been raging in the UK for two weeks and in Israel for three months but one of those stori...

June 22, 2018

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....

June 20, 2018

How did BBC News report the latest Gaza missile attacks?

Despite eleven separate incidents of missile fire from Gaza so far this year, BBC audiences have not...

June 12, 2018

BBC News finally mentions Gaza arson attacks – in just sixteen words

After two months of arson attacks and damage to thousands of acres of land, the BBC has managed to c...

June 4, 2018

BBC News website ignores most of renewed Gaza rocket fire

Palestinian arson attacks on fields and nature reserves continue to be ignored....