Greek Orthodox Church

April 18, 2023

More uncritical BBC amplification of church leaders’ claims

Last week we noted that an April 12th report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell concernin...

April 14, 2023

BBC’s Knell amplifies church’s politicised talking points

From the Times of Israel we learn that the Greek Orthodox church held a press conference in Jerusale...

December 23, 2021

BBC touts an unquestioned narrative about ‘Christians in the Holy Land’

Listeners to the December 21st edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme heard an item (from ...

October 17, 2019

BBC Complaints makes it up as it goes along

The BBC responded to a complaint by misquoting its own material....

August 26, 2019

Inaccurate and partial BBC Radio 4 report from Jerusalem’s Old City

Over the past two years listeners to BBC Radio 4 religious programming have heard a couple of inaccu...

June 18, 2019

UK Media Watch prompts Times of London correction to Church land sale claim

The factual error in the piece involved passage which repeated the church's claim, as if it were an ...

March 5, 2018

BBC R4 ‘Sunday’ adds more confusion to Jerusalem church story

Once again BBC audiences get an account of the Jerusalem churches dispute story riddled with inaccur...

March 1, 2018

BBC News amplifies church leaders’ Nazi analogy yet again

Yet again the BBC misrepresents a bill proposed by an Israeli MK....

February 27, 2018

BBC again amplifies church leaders’ PR hyperbole

A story about land leases and council tax becomes an 'attack on Christians in the Holy Land' on the ...

January 7, 2018

5 lies in Guardian op-ed claiming ‘Christians being driven out of the holy land’.

Though we're of course accustomed to errors, distortions and omissions in Guardian op-eds about Isra...