Husam Zomlot

June 6, 2021

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

Throughout the month of May 2021, one hundred and five written or filmed reports relating to Israel ...

June 2, 2021

BBC Radio 4 gives PA envoy unchallenged platform for promotion of lies

After Hamas had fired rockets at Jerusalem on the evening of May 10th – and as attacks continu...

February 1, 2021

Jerusalem: where BBC and PLO approaches meet

The final item in the January 25th evening edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsh...

September 29, 2020

REVIEWING BBC WS RADIO’S FRAMING OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS

Previously we reviewed BBC Radio 4’s framing of the signing of the Abraham Accords on September 15...

July 22, 2020

Husam Zomlot, head of PA’s Mission to the UK, lies in The Times

Husam Zomlot, head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, published a piece in The Times (“Desp...

July 22, 2020

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ lets PLO rep’s falsehoods slide, avoids tough questions

Previously we saw how the BBC programme ‘Hardtalk’ presented the guest interviewed in its July 1...

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 9, 2020

Reviewing the impartiality of BBC radio coverage of potential application of civil law to parts of Area C

The BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartiality state: “Due impartiality usually involves more ...

July 7, 2020

Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part two

In part one of this post we discussed an interview with the Palestinian Authority’s representative...

July 6, 2020

Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part one

Between mid-May and the end of June the BBC devoted considerable efforts to the preemptive framing o...