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January 11, 2024

BBC Jerusalem bureau framing of Palestinian October 7 denial

Last month we documented selective citations of a survey carried out by the Palestinian Center for P...

November 2, 2023

Omissions in BBC reporting on foreign nationals in the Gaza Strip

For years the BBC has been using terms such as “siege” and “open-air prison” to describe the...

October 17, 2023

Another BBC ‘explanation’ of its refusal to name terrorism

Earlier we discussed John Simpson’s October 11th article defending the BBC’s avoidance of the te...

October 11, 2023

BBC backgrounder on Hamas attacks short on ‘essential context’

Some twelve hours after Hamas’ launching of thousands of missiles and infiltrations into Israeli t...

August 14, 2023

Hamas and PA statements at odds with BBC framing

In our latest overview of BBC News website coverage of Israel and the Palestinians we noted that amo...

July 25, 2023

BBC News amplifies anonymous ‘collective punishment’ claim

On the afternoon of July 19th a report by David Gritten headlined ‘Israel condemns EU envoy’...

May 15, 2023

BBC reporting on crossings closures fails to disclose contributor’s activism

On May 12th the BBC News website published a report that was originally credited to Raffi Berg and h...

January 26, 2023

BBC News once again shoehorns Israel into Gaza Strip reporting

Early on the morning of January 25th a report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell appeared...

December 30, 2022

Sound-bytes and narratives in BBC WS radio reporting on Israel government

Previously we discussed coverage of the December 21st announcement by Likud leader Netanyahu that he...

November 21, 2022

BBC News blames fatal Gaza fires on counter-terrorism measures

On the evening of November 17th the BBC News website published a report headlined ‘Gaza: At least ...