International Law

July 19, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading. ...

July 7, 2019

What was missing from a ‘not to be missed’ report on BBC Two’s Newsnight?

BBC audiences would be unlikely to fill in the part of a story which Tom Bateman chose to leave out....

June 24, 2019

BBC widens its ‘illegal under international law’ mantra to include people

Apparently the BBC has no qualms about portraying over half a million Israelis as “illegal”. ...

June 4, 2019

The BBC’s ‘international law’ mantra goes north

The BBC presumptuously describes Golan Heights residents who chose to take Israeli citizenship as 'S...

May 21, 2019

BBC News plugs PA rejection of US peace initiative

The BBC continues to promote an inaccurate narrative concerning Palestinian support for a two-state ...

April 17, 2019

BBC’s peace plan framing and speculations – part one

The BBC continues to second-guess an unpublished document. ...

April 14, 2019

Inaccuracies in BBC WS ‘Newsday’ report on Israel election

A five-minute 'Newsday' item is replete with factual errors and misleading claims....

April 11, 2019

BBC News report on Airbnb backtrack follows usual recipe

BBC News squeezes 'war crimes' into its latest one-sided Airbnb report. ...

April 9, 2019

Another Israeli election, another BBC claim of a ‘shift to the right’

Tom Bateman recycles a theme seen in previous BBC coverage of Israeli elections....

March 24, 2019

Partial portrayals of international law in three BBC reports

The BBC's Barbara Plett Usher promotes a specific view of international law....