Counter-terrorism

March 9, 2023

BBC News again fails to tell all in report on counter-terror op

On the evening of March 7th the BBC published a report about a counter-terrorism operation which had...

March 6, 2023

An unhelpful BBC backgrounder on ‘Israeli-Palestinian violence’

On February 28th the BBC News website published a backgrounder by its Middle East editor Raffi Berg ...

March 3, 2023

BBC WS radio tries to explain the ‘Lions’ Den’ – part two

Previously we discussed an item aired on the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ which ...

March 2, 2023

BBC WS radio tries to explain the ‘Lions’ Den’ – part one

Back in October of last year we observed that the BBC had done very little to inform its audiences...

March 1, 2023

BBC News equates rocket attacks on civilians with strikes on military targets

Several hours after an IDF counter-terrorism operation last week in Nablus, terrorists in the Gaza S...

February 26, 2023

BBC reporting on a counter-terrorism operation in Nablus

On the afternoon of February 22nd a report appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page und...

February 17, 2023

Weekend long read

1) The ITIC analyses the recent counter-terrorism operation against a Hamas cell in Jericho. “The ...

February 16, 2023

Falsehoods and false equivalence in BBC reports from Neve Yaakov and Jenin

A week after the terror attack in Neve Ya’akov in which seven people were murdered, listeners to t...

February 10, 2023

Weekend long read

1) NGO Monitor discusses ‘Human Rights Watch’ and antisemitism. “In 2003, Human Rights Watch (...

February 8, 2023

BBC reporting on Jericho counter-terrorism operation

On the afternoon of February 6th a report headlined ‘Palestinian gunmen killed in Israeli raid in ...