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May 19, 2022

A narrative and a libel on BBC WS radio’s Newshour

The lead item (from 00:10 here) in the May 11th afternoon edition of BBC World Service radio’s ‘...

May 17, 2022

BBC Radio 4 and the Al Jazeera narrative – part two

In part one of this post we listed recurrent issues arising from BBC Radio 4 reporting on the shooti...

May 16, 2022

BBC Radio 4 and the Al Jazeera narrative – part one

BBC Radio 4’s initial reporting on the death of Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11th in the ‘Today’ p...

May 12, 2022

BBC WS ‘Newsday’ reporting on journalist’s death in Jenin

The shooting of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh early on the morning of May 11th in Jenin q...

May 10, 2022

BBC’s ‘Newsday’ promotes a one-sided PR narrative

On the morning of May 6th – just hours after the fatal terror attack in Elad – listeners to BBC ...

November 11, 2021

BBC WS radio airs inarticulate preaching on ‘the conscience of Israel’

Previously we discussed a filmed report posted on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on...

November 1, 2021

BBC News misrepresents political activism as ‘conscientious objection’

Israeli law requires all citizens of relevant age to serve in the defence forces unless they have be...

August 18, 2021

BBC News report on Jenin incident sidelines terrorism

On August 16th the BBC News website published a short report headlined “Four Palestinians killed i...

August 1, 2021

Scotsman op-ed vilifying Israel is riddled with errors and distortions

The hyperbole in an Aug. 1st op-ed by Ben Lynfield published in The Scotsman begins in the headline:...

June 11, 2021

BBC News again amplifies Al Jazeera’s baseless claims

On the evening of June 8th the BBC News website published a report titled “Israel says Gaza tower ...