Gaza Strip

October 23, 2020

A Gaza Strip story ignored by the BBC for over six months

As regular readers know only too well, the BBC frequently quotes and promotes NGOs in its Middle Eas...

October 15, 2020

The BBC’s Hamas police puff piece

In August 2007 – two months after Hamas’ violent take-over of the Gaza Strip – the BBC...

October 2, 2020

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – SEPTEMBER 2020

Throughout the month of September 2020, twenty-seven written or filmed reports relating to Israel an...

September 25, 2020

Weekend long read

1) At the FDD Tony Badran and Emanuele Ottolenghi explain ‘Hezbollah Finance in Lebanon’. “The...

September 17, 2020

Jeremy Bowen’s recommended reading on the Abraham Accords

On September 15th the BBC News website published an article on its ‘Middle East’ page in which M...

September 13, 2020

BBC News ignores developments in Gaza health story it reported in June

In late June the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ aired a report by the BBC Jerusale...

September 11, 2020

Weekend long read

1) At the BESA Center, Dr Edy Cohen looks at ‘The Plight of Egyptians Living in Israel’. “Egyp...

September 6, 2020

BBC NEWS COVERAGE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL – AUGUST 2020

The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during August 2020 shows that thr...

September 2, 2020

BBC WS airs softball interview with representative of Hamas-run body

As documented in a previous post, listeners to the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ ...

September 1, 2020

Another superficial report on Corona in Gaza from the BBC’s Yolande Knell

Earlier we looked at how reports on the BBC News website and BBC Radio 4 had framed the discovery of...