Gaza Strip

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...

March 13, 2014

BBC can’t tell its Hamas from its Islamic Jihad?

“Israeli planes bombard Gaza targets” was the lead headline on the BBC News website̵...

March 12, 2014

BBC News amplifies Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s PR line on attacks against Israeli civilians

On the afternoon of March 12th 2013 terrorist organisations including the Iranian-backed Palestinian...

March 11, 2014

BBC News reframes Iranian arms shipment story, censors information

On March 10th a BBC producer made his way to Eilat to cover the story of the weapons shipment seize...

March 9, 2014

The BBC, freedom and fencing

The BBC is currently running a feature titled ‘Freedom 2014’ which includes contribution...