Gaza Strip

April 10, 2014

Guardian covers tabloid scandal about Bibi’s wife; ignores Gaza terror attacks

In 2005 Israel evacuated every Jew from Gaza, an act which provided Palestinians in the coastal stri...

April 9, 2014

A round-up of BBC reporting of security incidents in March 2014

Security incidents of one sort or another made up the subject matter of quite a substantial proporti...

April 6, 2014

Harriet Sherwood wants Israeli Jews to feel the ‘pain’ of exclusion

A few hours before the Israeli government was set to approve a new deal with the Palestinians to ext...

April 5, 2014

Propaganda in the guise of art from the BBC News Gaza office

On April 4th a video report titled “Making art in the Gaza Strip: Mohammed al-Hawajri” a...

April 4, 2014

The Economist falsely suggests that exports from Gaza are banned.

The Economist’s Middle East blog, Pomegranate, published a post on April 2 about the art scene...

March 27, 2014

BBC’s Abualouf promotes Hamas “fishermen” PR line

Here is a Tweet sent by the BBC Gaza office’s Rushdi Abualouf on March 26th. However, beyond t...

March 25, 2014

BBC reports on Hamas rally in Arabic – but not in English

Whilst visitors to the BBC Arabic website on March 23rd were informed that a Hamas rally attended by...

March 23, 2014

Comparing the BBC’s coverage of two tragic stories from Gaza

Seventeen months ago the BBC gave extensive coverage to the story of a child killed in the Gaza Stri...

March 23, 2014

‘Impartial’ BBC reporting of Hamas propaganda on cross-border tunnel

A fine example of how the BBC’s  ‘impartial’ presentation of two sides of a story...

March 14, 2014

How did the BBC report the truce that wasn’t?

On the afternoon of Thursday, March 13th, an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle...