Impartiality

March 20, 2013

BBC's Lucy Ash claims Israelis "fleeing" Tel Aviv

In the context of the contemporary Middle East, most people would probably associate the word ‘...

March 17, 2013

Update on the BBC's Omar Masharawi story

A member of the public has informed BBC Watch that he heard a correction made on BBC radio on March ...

March 17, 2013

BBC's Sackur promotes notion of Israeli settlements as a 'war crime'

The summary of the March 14th edition of Hardtalk appearing on the BBC website is as follows: “...

March 16, 2013

BBC fails to report on Route 5 terror attack

In the early hours of the evening of Thursday March 14th, a pile-up near the Gitai Avisar junction o...

March 15, 2013

In his own words: Abdel Bari Atwan on BBC Arabic TV

As we have noted here before, the Gaza-born editor of the London-based Arabic language newspaper ‘...

March 14, 2013

Omission of information in BBC report on Al Fawar incident

An article appearing on the Middle East page of the BBC News website on March 13th entitled “F...

March 14, 2013

More omissions in the BBC's Gaza reporting

As we are only too aware, the picture of the Gaza Strip which the BBC presents to its audiences unif...

March 13, 2013

The BBC shows it can get it right

Credit where credit is due: the BBC recently had three reports about Israel up on its BBC News websi...

March 12, 2013

BBC appoints Jon Donnison as 'Shin Gimmel' of Masharawi story

In Hebrew, the expression ‘the Shin Gimmel syndrome’ is used to describe a situation in ...

March 11, 2013

A reminder of the chronology of the BBC's Omar Masharawi story

As media outlets return to work after the weekend, the news (reported here last week) that a recent ...