BBC Arabic

March 27, 2017

BBC Arabic inaccurately portrays 2002 terror attack victims

Not for the first time, BBC Arabic presents its audiences with an inaccurate portrayal of terror vic...

March 16, 2017

BBC ignores Gaza missile in English but reports response in Arabic

Late on the evening of March 15th a missile launched from the Gaza Strip exploded in the Western Neg...

March 1, 2017

Contrasting BBC portrayals of the Gaza Strip in English and in Arabic

At the beginning of February Tim Franks produced a report from the Gaza Strip (see here and here) w...

February 28, 2017

Fourth missile attack against Israel in three weeks ignored by BBC News

In the early hours of the morning of February 27th a missile was fired into Israeli territory from t...

February 23, 2017

BBC and Sky News promote different headlines to English and Arabic speakers

Last October we documented a case in which the same story was presented with differing headlines on ...

February 12, 2017

Following complaint, BBC Arabic corrects partisan terminology

Readers may recall that on January 2nd the BBC Arabic website published a report on the death of Hil...

February 7, 2017

BBC News continues to ignore Gaza missile attacks – in English

On the morning of February 6th sirens sent residents of the Hof Ashkelon district in the western Neg...

January 6, 2017

BBC Arabic reports death of gun-running priest in partisan terminology

On January 2nd the BBC News website’s Middle East page published an English language report ti...

December 5, 2016

BBC’s new foreign language services raise an old question

As readers may be aware, the BBC recently announced the expansion of its foreign language services. ...

December 1, 2016

Abbas’ Fatah reelection ignored by the BBC – in English

Back in late October, the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell produced an article concerning ...