Gaza Strip

March 27, 2013

Yet another major BBC accuracy fail in reporting 2010 flotilla

The BBC Editorial Guidelines on accuracy state: “The BBC must not knowingly and materially mis...

March 24, 2013

A wave of propaganda: BBC revisits the 2010 flotilla

The BBC News website’s Middle East page on March 23rd 2013 was headed by no fewer than six ite...

March 20, 2013

The Guardian’s Chris McGreal flubs Jewish demography

The Guardian’s Chris McGreal published ‘Obama urged: act tough on Israel or risk collaps...

March 17, 2013

Update on the BBC's Omar Masharawi story

A member of the public has informed BBC Watch that he heard a correction made on BBC radio on March ...

March 14, 2013

More omissions in the BBC's Gaza reporting

As we are only too aware, the picture of the Gaza Strip which the BBC presents to its audiences unif...

March 12, 2013

BBC appoints Jon Donnison as 'Shin Gimmel' of Masharawi story

In Hebrew, the expression ‘the Shin Gimmel syndrome’ is used to describe a situation in ...

March 11, 2013

A reminder of the chronology of the BBC's Omar Masharawi story

As media outlets return to work after the weekend, the news (reported here last week) that a recent ...

March 10, 2013

Still no BBC accountability on Masharawi story

The BBC is still promoting its story about Omar Masharawi on its website four days after the publica...

March 8, 2013

Hamas’s blockade on women’s rights in Gaza

Guardian reporters and contributors have implicitly blamed the Israeli blockade for spousal abuse i...

March 8, 2013

BBC euphemism of the (International Women's) day

An article dated March 5th 2013 which appeared on the Middle East page of the BBC News website relat...