Hardtalk

March 14, 2023

BBC’s Hardtalk unhelpful on Israeli politics

The March 10th editions of the BBC programme ‘Hardtalk’ featured Simcha Rothman who is currently...

February 17, 2023

BBC’s Hardtalk fails to challenge Ken Roth’s Livingstone Formulation claims

On February 13th the BBC aired filmed and audio interviews with the former director of ‘Human Righ...

February 9, 2021

‘Hardtalk’: another chapter in BBC promotion of a political campaign

The interviewee on the January 26thedition of the BBC News Channel programme ‘Hardtalk’ – host...

July 20, 2020

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ recycles an inaccuracy previously acknowledged and corrected

In February of this year the BBC’s response to a complaint from CAMERA UK acknowledged that the PL...

July 15, 2020

‘Hardtalk’ recycles the BBC’s Area C story talking points

Our review of coverage of the potential application of Israeli civilian law to specific parts of Are...

June 26, 2020

BBC’s Hardtalk fails to ‘build understanding’ in interview with ICC president

The purpose of BBC news and current affairs programmes is defined as follows: “The BBC should prov...

March 1, 2020

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ promotes half a story from 2014

The failure to provide context to an incident brought up by Sackur prevents audience understanding. ...

May 26, 2019

Hamas once again given a platform on the BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’

The BBC once again provides a member of a terrorist organisation with a platform from which to disse...

March 18, 2019

BBC’s Stephen Sackur does ‘the Israeli psyche’

'Hardtalk' host once again promotes his narrative on Israel....

January 28, 2019

BBC Sport wakes up to Malaysia sports discrimination story

BBC Sport's report on discrimination against Israeli athletes includes portrayal of the discriminati...