Impartiality

July 6, 2023

BBC News apologises for ‘the Israeli forces are happy to kill children’ claim

On the evening of July 4th the BBC News TV station aired an interview with former Israeli prime mini...

April 18, 2023

More uncritical BBC amplification of church leaders’ claims

Last week we noted that an April 12th report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell concernin...

January 12, 2023

PROMOTED AND QUOTED: THE BBC’S PREFERRED NGO CONTRIBUTORS IN 2022

Nearly a decade ago, in May 2013, we began documenting the BBC’s use of contributions or informati...

December 9, 2022

BBC’s Bateman again whitewashes Palestinian violence

At around 4 p.m. on Friday, December 2nd, an incident took place in the town of Huwara in Area B. â€...

December 6, 2022

BBC News again gives context-free promotion to NGO campaigning

On December 2nd the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten headlined ‘Israel to depo...

November 13, 2022

BBC rejects complaint about framing of IDF investigation

Readers may recall that in a report published on the BBC News website on October 1st (discussed here...

November 4, 2022

BBC WS exploits Israel election to promote political NGO’s talking points

Among the November 1st coverage of Israel’s general election on BBC World Service radio, an item a...

October 28, 2022

BBC Radio 4 news uncritically amplifies Palestinian propaganda

As was noted in a BBC News website report about a counter-terrorism operation in Nablus (Schem) on O...

September 23, 2022

BBC’s Bateman in the NGO echo chamber

On the evening of September 20th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman tweeted what he described ...

September 5, 2022

BBC’s Yolande Knell promotes inaccurate claim in apparent ‘churnalism’

Late on Friday, September 2nd UK time (early Saturday September 3rd Israel time) the BBC News websit...