BBC Jerusalem Bureau

January 28, 2022

BBC News ignores a story that contradicts a recurrent claim

Last year the BBC produced multiple reports on the topic of crime within the Arab-Israeli sector, wi...

January 25, 2022

Template BBC reporting on Sheikh Jarrah eviction

On the afternoon of January 19th a report titled “Sheikh Jarrah: Israeli police evict Palestinians...

January 19, 2022

Former BBC Jerusalem reporter breaches guidance on social media use

On January 17th Israeli police arrived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of Jerusalem in order to v...

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...

January 5, 2022

REVIEWING BBC NEWS WEBSITE COVERAGE OF PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS IN 2021

Our monthly summaries of BBC News website coverage of Israel and the Palestinians (see ‘related ...

January 3, 2022

BBC’s Bateman revisits May 2021 war in one-sided account

The January 1st 2022 edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ was descr...

January 2, 2022

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – DECEMBER 2021

Throughout the month of December 2021, twenty-three written or filmed reports relating to Israel and...

December 16, 2021

BBC’s Tom Bateman still clinging to Abraham Accords ‘betrayal’ framing

On December 13th both BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service radio covered the first official visit by an...

December 8, 2021

BBC NEWS COVERAGE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL – NOVEMBER 2021

The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during November 2021 shows that t...

December 7, 2021

BBC’s Bateman digs up old narratives in Gilboa jailbreak report

Early on the morning of December 6th a twelve-and-a-half-minute filmed report by the BBC Jerusalem b...