Black September

September 4, 2022

The latest BBC reporting on the Munich Olympics terror attack

Five years ago we documented the BBC’s failure, for the most part, to describe the 1972 Munich Oly...

July 26, 2021

Munich Olympics massacre perpetrators still euphemised by the BBC

Late on the evening of July 23rd (UK time) the BBC News website published a report about the first o...

September 9, 2020

What has changed in 50 years of BBC reporting on a PFLP hijacking?

Three years ago we looked at a BBC report dating from September 6th 1970 on the Dawson’s Field h...

February 11, 2020

Guardian interviewee says terrorist was killed “just for being Palestinian”

Though there is serious disagreement about whether Zwaiter was directly involved in the Munich attac...

August 20, 2018

BBC R4 listeners hear more ‘contextualisation’ of Corbyn wreath-laying

In which BBC Radio 4 listeners hear that too much fuss is being made about anti-Jewish racism....

August 16, 2018

BBC Two’s Victoria Derbyshire and a non-existent political party

The standard of BBC fact-checking in evidence on BBC Two....

August 15, 2018

Reviewing BBC Radio 4 coverage of Corbyn wreath laying story – part one

BBC Radio 4 listeners hear Black September terrorists described as 'activists' - twice....

August 14, 2018

Over a third of BBC website’s Corbyn wreath laying report allocated to denials

Background and context missing from the BBC News website's report on the latest UK Labour party scan...

September 4, 2017

Reviewing the language used in BBC reports on the Munich Olympics Massacre

How does BBC News describe the perpetrators of the Munich Olympics massacre and which BBC department...

April 4, 2017

BBC Radio 4’s double standards on response to terrorism

What does a BBC Radio 4 programme describe as 'state terrorism' - and what not? ...