HRW

February 3, 2017

Weekend long read

1) UN Watch has published another report concerning teachers at UNRWA educational facilities. “...

January 8, 2017

BBC promotes political NGO in coverage of Azaria verdict

On January 4th the BBC News website published two articles relating to the topic of the verdict in t...

October 13, 2016

BBC’s Knell relegates impartiality to the bench in campaigning football report

On October 13th a report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell appeared in the ‘Fe...

September 27, 2016

BBC WS news bulletins amplify HRW delegitimisation campaign

For some time now the Palestinian Authority’s Jibril Rajoub has been exploiting sport as a mea...

August 31, 2016

BBC unusually passes up on amplifying HRW’s latest report

One of the political NGOs most frequently quoted and promoted in BBC Middle East coverage – even o...

July 27, 2016

A retrospective look at BBC coverage of the Second Lebanon War – part two

A review of the content produced by the BBC a decade ago at the time of the Second Lebanon War shows...

April 15, 2016

BBC shoehorns partisan political NGO into report on policeman’s promotion

On April 13th an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the headlin...

March 4, 2016

Years of BBC amplifications of Hamas denials unravel

Writing about Egypt’s closure of the Rafah crossing in August 2013, the BBC’s Yolande Kn...

January 22, 2016

Predictable BBC amplification for latest HRW anti-Israel report

On January 19th an article titled “Palestinian workers banned from West Bank settlements”...

September 27, 2015

More uncritical amplification of a HRW report from BBC News

On September 22nd an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the tit...