BBC Arabic

July 1, 2015

BBC coverage of Ramadan terror ignores attacks in one country – in English

The BBC has quite understandably devoted considerable air-time and column space to coverage of the J...

June 30, 2015

BBC News website corrects Gaza Strip naval blockade inaccuracy

Shortly after the appearance of a BBC Watch post pointing out that a June 29th BBC News website repo...

June 29, 2015

BBC’s English and Arabic flotilla reports promote inaccurate information

The news that Israeli naval forces had intercepted – without incident – the lead boat in the...

June 24, 2015

Yet again: Gaza missile attack ignored by BBC News but Israeli response reported in Arabic

At around 10 p.m. on the evening of June 23rd residents of Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip o...

June 24, 2015

More BBC multiplatform mainstreaming of an anti-Israel trope

Obviously not content with the previous amplification of propaganda rhetoric used by anti-Israel cam...

June 20, 2015

BBC ignores another terror attack on Israelis – in English

On June 19th a terror attack took place near Dolev. “An Israeli man who was critically injure...

June 7, 2015

The pattern continues: no coverage of Gaza missile attacks in English but BBC Arabic reports Israeli response

For the third time in less than two weeks, missile attacks from the Gaza Strip aimed at Israeli civi...

June 5, 2015

BBC News ignores missile attack from Gaza but BBC Arabic reports response

On June 4th the 1.69 million people who follow the BBC Arabic Twitter account were sent the followin...

May 27, 2015

Another Gaza Strip missile attack goes unreported by the BBC – in English

On the evening of Tuesday, May 26th, a missile fired from the Gaza Strip exploded near Gan Yavne –...

May 8, 2015

Selective BBC reporting on explosions in Sudan implies Israeli involvement

In the early hours of May 6th confused reports began to emerge concerning explosions in Khartoum. &#...