BBC Middle East Editor

January 17, 2025

Looking back at the BBC’s record on Syria

Over the past few weeks, the BBC News website has published a considerable amount of content relatin...

December 15, 2023

BBC News uncritically promotes framing from inadequately presented source

On December 8th the BBC News website produced three items of content relating to social media video ...

October 12, 2023

BBC’s Bowen does whataboutery in Kfar Aza

On October 10th the IDF took members of the international press to Kibbutz Kfar Aza where soldiers w...

July 19, 2023

How did the BBC explain the Jenin counter-terror operation?

The BBC News website has to date published seven written reports relating to the July 3rd/4th counte...

July 17, 2023

BBC’s Bateman promotes a Jenin story based on an unverified video

On July 9th the Times published an article by Catherine Philip concerning the previous week’s coun...

July 10, 2023

What did BBC reports from a Jenin hospital ignore?

Visitors to the BBC News website’s live page covering the two-day counter-terrorism operation in J...

May 23, 2023

Yet another BBC report misrepresents Jerusalem Day

On the evening of May 18th a report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman appeared on the BBC ...

April 20, 2023

Redundant linkage and false equivalence on BBC Radio 4

The day after Lucy Dee died of wounds she sustained during the terror attack three days earlier in w...

April 19, 2023

BBC international editor touts simplistic ‘hopes for peace’ narrative

Early on the morning of April 18th an article by the BBC’s international and Middle East editor ap...

July 22, 2022

BBC corrects Jeremy Bowen’s inaccurate Abu Akleh claim

Earlier this week we noted the BBC Middle East editor’s promotion of a claim concerning the death ...