BBC Middle East Editor

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...

June 15, 2021

Sixteen years of the BBC Middle East editor’s narratives

Every now and again it is worth reminding ourselves of the opinions and approaches of the man who ha...

June 3, 2021

Examining early BBC Radio 4 framing of the May 10 hostilities – part one

Previously we looked at points arising from the first hours of BBC Radio 4 coverage of the May 10th ...

June 2, 2021

BBC Radio 4 gives PA envoy unchallenged platform for promotion of lies

After Hamas had fired rockets at Jerusalem on the evening of May 10th – and as attacks continu...

June 1, 2021

BBC ME editor promotes think tank proposals on BBC platforms

Those following the BBC Middle East editor’s contributions to coverage of the recent attacks on Is...

May 27, 2021

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen rewrites the Beit Hanoun shortfall rocket incident

A significant number of readers have alerted us to a particularly one-sided report by the BBC Middle...

April 30, 2021

BBC’s ‘Today’ tosses editorial guidelines aside in HRW report promotion

In recent years we have documented the BBC’s amplification of anti-Israel campaigns involving or r...

March 21, 2021

Reviewing a decade of BBC reporting on Syria

A decade of BBC reporting on the civil war in Syria has produced some memorable moments such as the ...