First Lebanon War

August 1, 2023

BBC News fails to provide full background to Hizballah provocations

On July 26th we noted the paucity of BBC reporting on recent – and past – provocations by Hizbal...

October 3, 2022

Sketchy BBC explanation of maritime borders dispute

Last month we noted the relative silence from the BBC on the topic of the long-running maritime bord...

November 19, 2020

REVIEWING BBC MIDDLE EAST EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS – PART SIX

Previously (see ‘related articles’ below) we have discussed five videos created by the BBC in 20...

September 11, 2019

UK Media Watch prompts Times of London improvement to wild Lebanon War claim

The original article included the wild and completely unsubstantiated claim that, upon invading Leba...

February 26, 2019

Usual mantras in BBC News report on Hizballah designation

Once again the BBC sidesteps the topic of Iranian funding and arming of Hizballah....

February 24, 2019

BBC world affairs editor’s holiday snaps exclude Hizballah

BBC R4 listeners hear that Israel 'interferes' and 'acts like a bully' in Lebanon....

June 11, 2018

BBC World Service history show recycles one inaccuracy and adds more

BBC World Service audiences get a blatantly partisan narrative dished up as 'history'....

June 7, 2018

BBC WS history programme claims Israel started the Lebanese civil war

Listeners to the BBC World Service radio history programme 'Witness' were told that the Lebanese civ...

May 9, 2018

BBC News promotes Hizballah’s lexicon and a false narrative

The BBC continues to misrepresent Hizballah's origins to its audiences....

November 30, 2017

BBC’s Newshour Extra listeners get a partisan ‘explanation’ of Hizballah

BBC World Service listeners get yet another dose of Hizballah messaging. ...