Breaking the Silence

July 7, 2017

Weekend long read

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

July 5, 2017

Israeli guest tells BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ host ‘you rewrite the history’ – part one

The BBC's Stephen Sackur promotes inaccuracies and false allegations in a 'Hardtalk' interview. ...

April 27, 2017

BBC News portrays political NGOs as ‘human rights activists’

The BBC's portrayal of political NGOs as 'human rights activists' hinders audience understanding of ...

April 13, 2017

BBC Two’s ‘Newsnight’ jumps on the ‘cultural censorship’ bandwagon

BBC 2's 'Newsnight' brings the latest in a series of dark stories of 'cultural censorship' in Israel...

July 18, 2016

Investigative report highlights BBC’s NGO impartiality fail

Over the past fourteen months we have documented several cases in which the BBC has amplified the me...

July 18, 2016

Breaking the Silence Gets Failing Grade in Channel 10’s Fact-Check

In an Op-Ed in the Israeli Walla news site, Goren and Rom argued that while they did not think BtS w...

May 15, 2016

What the BBC World Service edited out of a ‘Boston Calling’ report

The May 7th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Boston Calling’ included a...

May 9, 2016

BBC’s ME Editor gives unchallenged amplification to Palestinian defamation

In late April BBC television audiences saw a report by Yolande Knell which gave entirely unchallenge...

December 22, 2015

Independent amplifies the smears of EU-funded group ‘Breaking the Silence’

There’s nothing at all surprising about an op-ed published at the Independent by their former ...

May 15, 2015

The context of the BBC’s promotion of ‘Breaking the Silence’

As readers no doubt recall, at the beginning of this month the BBC produced three items on various p...