Gaza Strip

July 27, 2014

BREAKING: Video suggests IDF mortars did NOT play role in Beit Hanoun killing

On July 25th we posted about the UK media’s rush to judgement after 15 Palestinian civilians ...

July 27, 2014

What Beit Hanoun tells us about BBC impartiality

Here is a Tweet from one of those impartial BBC journalists currently reporting from the Gaza Strip:...

July 27, 2014

BBC News backgrounder downgrades Hamas' terror designation

Here is another one of those filmed BBC backgrounder reports – presumably intended to provide BBC ...

July 26, 2014

What do BBC journalists think you should be reading?

Among the recommended reading on the current hostilities in Israel and the Gaza Strip which BBC empl...

July 26, 2014

Half a picture, half a story: how the BBC compromises its own impartiality in Gaza

As was noted in this recent post, an article by Yolande Knell titled “Gaza: Hamas seeks to eme...

July 25, 2014

BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis to Israeli spokesman: "You killed them"

On the afternoon of July 24th an UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun where many Palestinians were sheltering...

July 25, 2014

More BBC amplification of Hamas 'siege' propaganda

On July 24th the BBC News website’s Middle East page featured an excerpt from what it termed a...

July 24, 2014

BBC avoids giving audiences the whole picture on Hamas' pre-ceasefire demands

There is nothing novel about BBC misrepresentation of Israel’s naval blockade on the Gaza Stri...

July 24, 2014

BBC TV news airs claim that Gazans are being deliberately starved to death by Israel

BBC audiences might very reasonably expect that studio-produced backgrounders would be capable of me...

July 24, 2014

Some BBC bright spots and the remarkable reaction of a presenter confronted with reality

They may be few and far between, but there are some bright spots among the BBC’s reporting of ...