BBC Sport

November 12, 2025

BBC News and BBC Sport framing of the Birmingham football match story – part two

Previously we looked at BBC Sport and BBC News website reporting in the run-up to the November 6th U...

November 11, 2025

BBC News and BBC Sport framing of the Birmingham football match story – part one

Last month we discussed three items of BBC content concerning the announcement of a ban on Israeli f...

October 21, 2025

BBC promotes a narrative using misleading portrayals of Amsterdam attacks

A BBC News website report that was originally published on October 16th under the title “Wrong to ...

January 27, 2022

BBC Sport’s minimalist portrayal of Wiley’s antisemitism

On January 25th the Jewish Chronicle published a report about the apologies put out by two British f...

December 1, 2021

Malaysia anti-Israel discrimination story gets minimal BBC reporting

As reported by the Jerusalem Post and others, an international sporting event was cancelled on Novem...

November 14, 2021

BBC Sport coy on ‘inappropriate flag’

On November 4th BBC Sport published a report headlined “Scotland fined for jeering Israel national...

September 10, 2021

No BBC follow-up on Algerian judoka story

In July the BBC published a report about an Algerian judoka who was sent home after refusing to comp...

September 2, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – AUGUST 2021

Throughout the month of August 2021, twenty-five written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or...

August 2, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – JULY 2021

Throughout the month of July 2021, twenty-seven written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or ...

July 27, 2021

BBC Sport again fails to deliver on anti-Israel bigotry

A report titled “Tokyo Olympics: Algerian judoka suspended and sent home after withdrawing to avoi...