BBC News

February 20, 2013

Proportionality on the BBC website’s Middle East page

On February 18th 2013, nearly half of the reports featured on the BBC News website’s Middle Ea...

February 18, 2013

BBC’s Jim Muir whitewashes Hizballah violations of 1701

On February 15th 2013 an article by the BBC’s Beirut correspondent Jim Muir entitled “Wh...

February 17, 2013

Light bulb moment at the BBC

Eureka! At long last the BBC finally seems to have got the message on the subject of its to date ina...

February 16, 2013

Inaccuracies in BBC ‘Prisoner X’ reports remain uncorrected

The BBC’s treatment of the ‘Prisoner X’ story once again raises the issue of the o...

February 15, 2013

Obsession: four BBC ‘Beitar’ articles in under a week

This is getting ugly.  On February 14th – just one day after a report about a group of racist...

February 15, 2013

BBC’s “Obstacles to Peace” do not hold water – part 2

In part one of this article we looked at the various historical claims made by Martin Asser in his ...

February 14, 2013

BBC ‘downgrades’ Hizballah

As has been previously noted here, the BBC has in the past consistently referred to Hizballah as a &...

February 14, 2013

BBC’s “Obstacles to Peace” do not hold water – part 1

At the bottom of the Middle East page on the BBC News website one finds a series of ‘Country P...

February 13, 2013

Selective BBC reporting on sports discrimination

As we know, the BBC is very concerned about racism in sport – so much so that it produced two arti...

February 13, 2013

About that ‘peace in the Middle East’ thing…

h/t Michael Totten’s ‘World Affairs‘ blog. The next time someone tells you that pe...