Beitar Jerusalem

December 27, 2020

BBC WS radio’s ‘World Football’ bucks the trend on Beitar reporting

h/t SG Earlier this month we discussed BBC coverage of the news that the Beitar Jerusalem football c...

December 10, 2020

Reviewing BBC reporting on UAE investment in Beitar Jerusalem FC

On December 8th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman produced a filmed report on a topic which h...

December 24, 2019

The BBC returns to an old obsession

The BBC continues to focus on the exception to the rule in Israeli football. ...

December 4, 2016

BBC 4’s ‘Storyville’ resurrects an old theme

The BBC Four’s ‘Storyville’ series – which describes itself as “showca...

June 17, 2016

Comparing BBC reporting on English and Israeli football hooligans

Last month the BBC’s Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen found it appropriate to respond to an Isr...

May 9, 2016

BBC’s Bowen does maintenance on his framing of a Middle East story

In addition to the audio report produced by Jeremy Bowen on his recent visit to Jerusalem, a written...

April 5, 2013

In which the BBC ignores prejudice in Israeli football

Readers will surely not have forgotten the bout of BBC binge-reporting a couple of months ago on the...

February 27, 2013

BBC binge reporting on Beitar comes to abrupt halt

Doubtless readers have not forgotten the recent spate of binge reporting by the BBC which culminated...

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 11, 2013

The BBC, football racism and Israel

“Football racism fears in Egypt”. That headline did not appear on the BBC website after ...