Human rights

July 28, 2023

Weekend long read

1) The ITIC reports on ‘The Palestinian Authority attempts to restore its system of governance’....

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...

August 14, 2022

More BBC cheapening of the title ‘human rights activist’

As regular readers are no doubt aware, the BBC editorial guidelines on impartiality include a sectio...

July 22, 2022

Weekend long read

1) NGO Monitor provides a resource on ‘Palestinian NGOs on Teens’ Involvement in Terror Attacks ...

November 8, 2021

BBC WS radio continues to promote a monochrome view of the PFLP NGOs story

Since news broke on October 22nd that Israel’s minister of defence had designated six Palestinian ...

September 9, 2021

BBC again flouts editorial guidelines in interview with ‘activist’

In recent days the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page has published three items of content ...

July 28, 2021

World Service radio radically broadens BBC’s framing of spyware story

Previously we have looked at how the BBC has chosen to erase from audience view a British firm’s m...

June 28, 2021

Who is BBC World Service radio’s ‘human rights activist’?

As we all too often have cause to note on these pages, BBC coverage of internal Palestinian affairs ...

October 23, 2020

A Gaza Strip story ignored by the BBC for over six months

As regular readers know only too well, the BBC frequently quotes and promotes NGOs in its Middle Eas...

March 16, 2020

A UN human rights story the BBC reported and the one it ignored

On March 11th the BBC News website published a report on its ‘Middle East’ page about a statemen...