BBC News

February 4, 2013

BBC unquestioningly promotes Assad’s “destabilisation” claims

Here’s a question for readers: if a journalist chooses to quote an obviously inaccurate – an...

February 4, 2013

BBC ignores UN HRC report’s political agenda – and worse

In March 2012, the UN Human Rights Council accepted a draft resolution proposed by Bolivia, Cuba, Pa...

February 3, 2013

BBC can’t let go of ‘right-wing’ Israeli politics

Here is the BBC’s take on the subject of the talks which began on February 3rd, aimed at estab...

February 1, 2013

BBC reports on alleged air strikes: high on speculation, low on context

Despite the dearth of verifiable information on the subject, the BBC has produced several reports on...

January 31, 2013

BBC article on Israel & UN HRC omits important context

On January 29th an article appeared in the Middle East section of the BBC News website on the subjec...

January 29, 2013

BBC still airbrushing David Ward’s remarks

In a story which bears more resemblance to an episode of Fawlty Towers by the day, the Liberal Democ...

January 29, 2013

BBC’s Paul Moss promotes politically motivated stereotypes of Israelis

Can you imagine the BBC publishing or broadcasting a facile report which tries too hard to be funny ...

January 28, 2013

Priorities on the BBC website’s Middle East page

As violence escalates in Syria, the possibility of the deteriorating situation leading to that count...

January 28, 2013

Kevin Connolly tweaks the Israeli political map

Apparently still unable to let go of the subject of the Israeli elections, the BBC featured another ...

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,...