BBC Arabic

June 5, 2017

BBC WS tells a context-free tale of Egypt’s Six Day War ‘naksa’

BBC World Service radio tells listeners dubious tales in a context free item on the Egyptian Six Day...

June 1, 2017

Meet CAMERA’s new media monitoring project

As regular readers know, BBC Watch has on occasion secured corrections to articles published on the ...

May 3, 2017

BBC Watch secures another correction to a BBC Arabic article

it is certainly obvious that BBC Arabic (which is of course part funded by British taxpayers throug...

May 3, 2017

BBC Watch secures another correction to a BBC Arabic article

Back in March we noted that a report on the BBC Arabic website included an inaccurate description of...

April 19, 2017

Identifying the BBC’s anonymous “mother of a Palestinian inmate”

The BBC World Service amplified claims from an anonymous 'mother of a Palestinian inmate' without di...

April 12, 2017

BBC News ignores another missile attack by ISIS Sinai – in English

The BBC's English language services continue to ignore missile attacks on Israel. ...

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...