Hizballah

October 15, 2024

BBC News facilitation of UNIFIL talking points

Over the past week or so, visitors to the BBC News website – and in particular its ‘Middle East�...

October 14, 2024

Looking behind BBC portrayal of Hizballah attacks on Israel

Readers may recall that back in July the BBC News website published a report which was credited, amo...

October 13, 2024

BBC News website documentation of weapons in southern Lebanon

As readers may have already noticed, the BBC’s abundant coverage of events in Lebanon during the p...

October 10, 2024

BBC Verify produces a third report on damage in Lebanon

On September 27th BBC Verify put out a report about “missile damage in Lebanon”: BBC VERIFY AVOI...

October 9, 2024

Looking at BBC claims of ‘constraints’ on reporting

Previously we discussed part of a statement titled “October 7th: One Year On” which was put out...

October 4, 2024

Weekend long read

1) At the Spectator, Jonathan Spyer explains ‘Why Hezbollah miscalculated – and Israel attacked�...

October 1, 2024

BBC Verify under informs and editorialises on Beirut strikes

On the morning of September 29th a report by BBC Verify on the topic of the elimination of Hassan Na...

September 29, 2024

BBC Verify avoids the ‘why’ in report on damage in Lebanon

When the BBC launched its “new brand” BBC Verify in May 2023, the CEO of BBC News Deborah Turnes...

September 27, 2024

Weekend long read

1) At the Misgav Institute, Arsen Ostrovsky explains ‘The Law Of Exploding Pagers’. “Last week...

September 27, 2024

Jeremy Bowen frames the Lebanon story for BBC audiences

The BBC’s international editor has had a busy week. Between September 18th and September 24th, Jer...