Capital of Israel

February 5, 2016

BBC Africa misrepresents campaigning reports as ‘scoop’

It is not difficult to discern when the BBC is running a campaign rather than merely reporting a sto...

November 29, 2015

The BBC and the 1947 Partition Plan

Back in December 2013 we noted on these pages that an online BBC backgrounder on the topic of the 19...

October 22, 2015

BBC News gets Israel’s capital city right – and then ‘corrects’

The saga of the BBC’s persistent refusal to tell its audiences that the capital city of Israel...

September 6, 2015

Thumbs up to BBC Capital’s report on Tel Aviv

A recent BBC article about Israel garnered some rather surprised reactions on Facebook. Tiffanie Wen...

February 10, 2015

BBC Weather and a country called null

Thanks to @moidov for bringing the following to our attention via Twitter. Of course the BBC – inc...

April 13, 2014

Why does the BBC Trust’s ESC pretend that the 1947 Partition Plan is a thing?

Readers no doubt remember that in the summer of 2012 the BBC’s Sports department produced a pr...

January 2, 2014

Which country does not have a capital city on the BBC website?

The BBC News website provides its visitors with ‘country profiles’ which include a secti...

August 6, 2013

BBC Weather doesn’t know in which country Jerusalem is located

h/t KK If, perchance, you decided to search for the weather forecast for London on the BBC Weather w...

June 10, 2013

Another capital offence at the BBC?

Less than a year after the BBC website’s sports section wiped Israel’s capital city off ...

April 23, 2012

You may need to read this twice: Guardian ‘corrects’ ‘claim’ that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.

A guest post by AKUS Read the caption to the picture below, captured off the Guardian’s website. â...