HRW

October 15, 2021

Longtime BBC editorial policies resurface in Radio 4 news Rooney report

Regular readers are no doubt familiar with the BBC’s long record of mainstreaming both the anti-Is...

September 3, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At the Long War Journal Joe Truzman analyses the renewal of rioting on the border between Israel ...

August 25, 2021

BBC News promotion of HRW report again erodes claim to impartiality

On August 23rd the BBC News website chose to provide worldwide amplification for a report produced b...

August 16, 2021

BBC News reamplifies HRW claims of ‘no military targets’

On August 12th the BBC News website published a report headlined ‘Hamas rocket fire a war crime, H...

August 2, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – JULY 2021

Throughout the month of July 2021, twenty-seven written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or ...

July 30, 2021

No surprises: BBC promotes HRW’s latest anti-Israel screed

On the evening of July 27th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Israel-Gaza conflic...

July 12, 2021

Down the BBC Complaints procedure rabbit hole

As we all too often have cause to note on these pages, the BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartial...

May 19, 2021

BBC promotes unevidenced claims of Israel ‘trying to silence’ Gaza reporting

Back in August 2014 former Associated Press journalist Matti Friedman wrote this about the relations...

May 7, 2021

Weekend long read

1) NGO Monitor provides background to a story likely to be taken up by the British media in a Primer...

May 5, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – APRIL 2021

Throughout the month of April 2021, thirty-three written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or...