BBC Middle East Editor

June 21, 2013

The Naked (BBC Middle East Editor) Chef

Anyone following the BBC’s Middle East Editor on Twitter cannot help but have noticed lately t...

May 19, 2013

What makes a story newsworthy for the BBC?

A Western journalist working in Israel once remarked to this writer that the reason so many of the f...

May 13, 2013

BBC’s Bowen invents new quarter in Jerusalem

The Old City of Jerusalem – as the vast majority of people are aware – is comprised of four quar...

May 8, 2013

BBC’s Bowen plays dumb to weave tangled web

The Monday May 6th 2013 edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme included a cont...

April 7, 2013

BBC reports from Hebron funeral again promote PA propaganda

The BBC’s coverage of the funeral of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh – the 64 year-old Palestinian terr...

March 12, 2013

BBC appoints Jon Donnison as 'Shin Gimmel' of Masharawi story

In Hebrew, the expression ‘the Shin Gimmel syndrome’ is used to describe a situation in ...

March 11, 2013

A reminder of the chronology of the BBC's Omar Masharawi story

As media outlets return to work after the weekend, the news (reported here last week) that a recent ...

January 27, 2013

Obsession in numbers: comparing BBC coverage of elections in Israel and Jordan

The day after the elections in Israel on January 22nd 2013, a no less important (and some would say,...

November 16, 2012

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen: “a deliberate escalation by Israel”

On November 14th, not long after the commencement of Operation Pillar of Cloud, the BBC’s Midd...

October 31, 2012

BBC’s Jon Donnison continues to airbrush Hamas terrorist activity

As we know, this week began (and still continues) with yet more missile attacks on civilian communit...