Binyamin Netanyahu

August 5, 2020

BBC ME editor shoehorns Israel into coverage of Beirut disaster

BBC coverage of the explosion in Beirut on the afternoon of August 4th has of course seen contributi...

May 31, 2020

BBC Radio 4’s ‘insight’ into Israeli PM’s trial

The May 28th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ (a programme billed as prov...

May 25, 2020

BBC News reports from the Israeli courts it claimed are closed

In late March we noted that viewers of the BBC News channel had been wrongly informed that Israel’...

April 22, 2020

BBC News misleads on Tel Aviv demonstration

On the evening of April 20th the BBC News Twitter account posted this Tweet: The link leads to an it...

March 31, 2020

BBC News Channel grossly misleads on Israeli courts

Previously we noted that reports on BBC radio and the BBC News website relating to cell phone tracki...

January 3, 2020

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading. ...

December 13, 2019

BBC News website kicks off 2020 election reporting

Details omitted from BBC portrayal of Israeli politics....

November 24, 2019

BBC News’ Plett Usher fails on fact checking

BBC audiences given information that has been out of date for over six years....

October 29, 2019

BBC clarifies inaccurate claim by Jeremy Bowen but fails to meet editorial guidelines

BBC editorial guidelines stipulate that errors in on-demand content should at least be flagged up by...

October 2, 2019

BBC’s Middle East editor warns against premature claims yet makes one

Radio 4 listeners hear inaccurate information from the BBC's main gatekeeper of Middle East news. ...