BBC Arabic

March 26, 2014

Terrorism, double standards and the BBC

In the BBC’s reporting on the three rounds of prisoner releases to date, audiences have been t...

February 23, 2014

BBC’s Alkashif slips gratuitous Israel mentions into Gaza Greek god story

On February 21st an article titled “The Apollo of Gaza: One fisherman’s amazing catch...

December 3, 2013

Another dumbed-down BBC report from the Gaza Strip

On December 3rd a filmed report also shown on BBC television news programmes appeared on the Middle ...

October 30, 2013

Oldie but baddie: unadulterated Palestinian propaganda on BBC News

As noted here recently, the BBC News website’s Middle East and Business pages currently offer ...

October 29, 2013

BBC promotion of the myth of a non-violent first Intifada

As can be seen in the list of twenty-six Palestinian prisoners convicted of violent acts and schedul...

August 21, 2013

BBC Arabic reports on Syrian patients in Israeli hospitals – but not in Arabic

Over the past few months we have noted here on numerous occasions the BBC’s failure to cover t...

May 3, 2013

The curious CV of a former BBC Arabic journalist

British readers may have heard of the ‘Al Mayadeen’ TV station which was launched in Jun...

March 19, 2013

CiF Watch prompts correction at ‘The Independent’ to Omar Misharawi story

On March 13, we posted a round-up of how the major British papers responded to new revelations regar...

March 13, 2013

How the British media have covered news regarding Omar Misharawi’s death

We recently noted that on March 12 the Guardian’s media blogger Roy Greenslade corrected his...

December 23, 2012

Spot the gratuitous sentence in a BBC report on Syria

A BBC report from December 21st, entitled “Palestinian refugees return to Syrian camp” ...