Balad

January 18, 2022

Revisiting a story ignored by the BBC for over two years

Back in August 2019 we documented the absence of any BBC coverage of a legal story concerning an Isr...

October 6, 2019

CAMERA Arabic prompts correction of three inaccuracies in one BBC report

A BBC Arabic backgrounder included multiple inaccuracies....

August 12, 2019

BBC interest in Israeli politicians’ legal cases has its limits

Not for the first time the BBC ignores a story about a legal case and a particular political party....

March 19, 2019

BBC News tells only part of an Israeli elections story

BBC audiences get a partial explanation of a Supreme Court decision....

November 7, 2017

UKMW prompts Guardian correction on claim Israel ‘banned’ Arab parties

A Guardian editorial claimed that Israel has 'banned' Arab political parties. In fact, as we noted i...

July 2, 2017

The prison story from Israel the BBC chose to report – and one it didn’t

BBC News produces two articles on the release from prison of a former Israeli politician but no repo...

March 21, 2017

MK’s plea bargain resignation not newsworthy for BBC

Late last December we noted that the BBC had ignored the story of the arrest of a member of the Knes...

January 27, 2017

Comparing BBC R4 ‘Today’ interviews with two Israeli MKs – part two

The January 24th edition of the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme included an interview with...

December 28, 2016

BBC News silent on arrest of Israeli MK

In February of this year the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ presented list...

November 10, 2016

The BBC’s Haneen Zoabi show

In mid-October the BBC World News channel aired a documentary by Jane Corbin titled “Israel...