BBC News Channel

August 2, 2023

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ misses the mark in Amnesty International interview

On July 26th the BBC programme ‘Hardtalk’ aired an interview that could have been very informati...

February 17, 2023

BBC’s Hardtalk fails to challenge Ken Roth’s Livingstone Formulation claims

On February 13th the BBC aired filmed and audio interviews with the former director of ‘Human Righ...

January 30, 2023

False equivalence and familiar themes in BBC reports on second Jerusalem terror attack

Previously we looked at some of the BBC’s coverage of the January 27th terror attack in the Neve Y...

March 8, 2022

An overview of BBC coverage of Israel PM’s Russia visit

The unusual visits to Moscow and Berlin by Israel’s prime minister Naftali Bennett on March 5th we...

February 7, 2022

BBC Persian again employs context-free quote to ‘support’ speculation

On the morning of February 6th an article headlined “Israel’s Mossad suspected of high-level...

December 9, 2021

New BBC documentary on UK antisemitism doesn’t cut the mustard

On December 4th the BBC News website published a video titled “Anti-Semitism: 2021 likely to be &#...

October 29, 2021

BBC’s Dead Sea reports fail to tell the whole story

On October 18th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman produced audio (from 45:23 here) and filmed...

May 29, 2021

BBC refuses to give comment to BBC on employee’s antisemitic Tweets

Nearly a week has passed since BBC Monitoring employee Tala Halawa’s attempt to downplay an antise...

May 18, 2021

BBC News channel confuses viewers on Sheikh Jarrah property dispute

In recent days BBC audiences have heard and seen no small amount of incomplete, uninformative and un...

February 15, 2021

BBC clarifies inaccurate ‘Dateline London’ claim about Oslo Accords and Palestinian healthcare

Readers may recall that the January 16th edition of the BBC programme ‘Dateline London’ included...