BBC Middle East Editor

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 ...

July 19, 2022

BBC wind in the ‘apartheid’ smear’s sails

Previously we saw how, in a July 14th TV report about the US president’s visit to the Middle East,...

July 17, 2022

BBC’s Bowen promotes ‘apartheid’ smear and unproven Abu Akleh claim

Viewers of the July 14th edition of BBC One’s ‘News at Ten’ saw a report from the BBC’s Midd...

July 15, 2022

The BBC ME editor’s portrayal of ‘international law’

It has been a while since Jeremy Bowen was last in Israel but early on July 13th – some twelve...

May 27, 2022

BBC ME editor Jeremy Bowen’s annual Lebanon story

On May 23rd the BBC’s Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen tweeted a thread about an incident which occ...

December 3, 2021

BBC WS radio’s ‘The Explanation’ flops on Palestinian-Israeli conflict – part two

Previously we discussed the first half of the November 27th edition of a BBC World Service radio pro...

December 2, 2021

BBC WS radio’s ‘The Explanation’ flops on Palestinian-Israeli conflict – part one

BBC World Service radio programming currently includes a series called ‘The Explanation’ which i...