BBC News

October 7, 2013

Patchy BBC reporting on security incidents compromises context and accuracy

One of the notable features of BBC reporting on terrorism and security-related incidents in Israel a...

October 7, 2013

BBC Yom Kippur war accuracy failure perpetuated over years

h/t Judge Dan (via Twitter) An article by the BBC Jerusalem Bureau’s Kevin Connolly titled ...

October 6, 2013

Nine year-old wounded in attack in Psagot: BBC silent

At around 21:00 on the evening of Saturday, October 5th, a nine year-old girl named Noam Glick was a...

October 6, 2013

BBC backgrounder on Yom Kippur war misleads on Syria

The entry for the year 1973 in the backgrounder titled “A History of Conflict” which app...

October 4, 2013

Seeing Israel through the BBC’s lens

There is a standing joke in my family that British people who have never been to Israel, and whose m...

October 3, 2013

Inaccuracy and distortion in BBC report of Netanyahu’s UN speech

On October 2nd 2013 the BBC News website published an article titled “Israel PM calls Iran lea...

October 3, 2013

BBC Israel focus in numbers – September 2013

Below is our regular end of month count of articles appearing on the Middle East page of the BBC N...

October 2, 2013

BBC’s Simpson mainstreams trope used by anti-Israel campaigners

On September 30th the BBC News website published two items by World Affairs Editor John Simpson. One...

October 2, 2013

BBC returns to ‘last-first’ reporting on Gaza Strip incident

On October 1st 2013 a short report titled “Palestinian shot dead on Gaza-Israel border” ...

October 1, 2013

BBC’s Marcus promotes ‘moderated’ Iranian Holocaust denial

Although it did not stay up for long, visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page on S...