Church of the Holy Sepulchre

April 18, 2023

More uncritical BBC amplification of church leaders’ claims

Last week we noted that an April 12th report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell concernin...

April 14, 2023

BBC’s Knell amplifies church’s politicised talking points

From the Times of Israel we learn that the Greek Orthodox church held a press conference in Jerusale...

March 5, 2018

BBC R4 ‘Sunday’ adds more confusion to Jerusalem church story

Once again BBC audiences get an account of the Jerusalem churches dispute story riddled with inaccur...

March 1, 2018

BBC News amplifies church leaders’ Nazi analogy yet again

Yet again the BBC misrepresents a bill proposed by an Israeli MK....

February 28, 2018

UKMW prompts Telegraph correction to false claim Israeli bill would seize “church land”

The original Telegraph language, alleging that proposed Knesset legislation would allow the governme...

February 27, 2018

BBC again amplifies church leaders’ PR hyperbole

A story about land leases and council tax becomes an 'attack on Christians in the Holy Land' on the ...

April 20, 2014

Peter Beaumont wants you to believe that Jews oppress Christians in Jerusalem

The most recent report by the US State Department on Religious Freedom in Israel and the Palestinia...

November 5, 2013

Guardian ‘inadvertently’ acknowledges that the Western Wall is NOT Judaism’s holiest site

As we’ve noted in previous posts, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (where the First and Second Je...

September 9, 2013

The Guardian again promotes myth that Ariel Sharon started 2nd Intifada

One of the more common false narratives regarding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict advanced by the ...