Coronavirus

May 15, 2020

Weekend long read

1) At the Jerusalem Post Khaled Abu Toameh provides updates on the story concerning banks in the PA ...

May 14, 2020

BBC’s Bateman boosts bathroom baloney

In addition to his May 12th written report about phone tracking to identify contact with Covid-19 ca...

May 13, 2020

BBC News publishes fifth report on Israel and Covid-19 related phone tracking

On March 17th the BBC News website published an article headlined “Coronavirus: Israel enables eme...

May 11, 2020

A new Palestinian Authority committee and a Corona loan get no BBC coverage

In mid-2019 the BBC produced quite a lot of coverage of the Palestinian Authority’s financial cris...

May 8, 2020

Weekend long read

1) Dr Jonathan Spyer analyses the resumption of protests in Lebanon. “One of the immediate effects...

May 6, 2020

Indy op-ed frames Israel as a ‘white’ nation oppressing Palestinians ‘of colour’

Here’s the headline, and accompanying photo, of an op-ed by Nour Soubani and Eric Lewis in the...

May 6, 2020

Summary of BBC News website portrayal of Israel and the Palestinians – April 2020

Throughout the month of April 2020, seventeen written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or th...

May 5, 2020

The Times retracts claim that Israel “swept aside authority of parliament, courts and elections”

An April 10th article in The Times (How coronavirus will change the world forever), by Mid-East corr...

May 4, 2020

BBC News website replaces irrelevant photo

Last week we noted that an article by BBC Technology published on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle...

May 3, 2020

BBC’s Knell amplifies PA talking points in reports on Palestinian workers

On April 29th the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page published a report by Yolande Knell ti...