Blockade

November 9, 2021

BBC’s Bateman gets Gaza water shortage right for a change

The BBC News website’s live page has been dominated by the COP26 UN climate conference in recent d...

October 11, 2021

BBC WS radio’s ‘Newsday’ promotes inaccuracies in a no news story

Listeners to one of the October 7th editions of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsday’ ...

August 24, 2021

BBC’s Bateman shoehorns Israel into reports on Palestinian vaccinations

On August 19th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman produced two reports based on the topic of a...

June 30, 2021

BBC WS radio business programmes rehash old Gaza blockade format

h/t SG On June 21st the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Business Daily’ aired an edition titl...

June 14, 2021

BBC News’ Yolande Knell on reconstruction ‘dilemma’ in the Gaza Strip

Late last month we raised the topic of the BBC’s avoidance of reporting on Hamas’ misappropriati...

June 11, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS, Raz Zimmt provides insight into the upcoming presidential election in Iran. “The d...

May 30, 2021

Let’s talk about concrete, Hamas and the BBC

One of the main stories to come out of Operation Guardian of the Walls concerns the IDF’s destruct...

April 29, 2021

BBC News produces first report on Palestinian elections

Three months after Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree ordering elections for the first time ...

March 26, 2021

Fact checking the BBC’s ‘fact checking arm’

Previously we have discussed a rolling article – and some of its subsequent amendments – pro...

March 15, 2021

BBC’s ‘Reality Check’ still promoting redundant claims about Gaza blockade

Readers may recall that on January 26th ‘Reality Check’ – portrayed as BBC News’ “fact-c...