International Law

December 25, 2016

A review of BBC News website coverage of UNSC resolution 2334

Events at the UN Security Council received generous coverage on the BBC News website on December 23r...

December 6, 2016

Superficial BBC portrayal of proposed ‘Regulation Bill’

On the morning of December 6th the BBC News website’s Middle East page published an article ti...

December 2, 2016

Weekend long read

1) As has been noted here before, the BBC is still unsure about Iranian involvement in the conflict ...

September 27, 2016

BBC WS news bulletins amplify HRW delegitimisation campaign

For some time now the Palestinian Authority’s Jibril Rajoub has been exploiting sport as a mea...

September 19, 2016

BBC amplifies UN criticism of Israeli PM without providing relevant context

In an article date stamped September 15th (but which actually appeared on the BBC News website’...

September 16, 2016

Weekend long read

  1) At Engage, Sarah Brown reviews a new book titled “The Left’s Jewish Problem...

July 27, 2016

A retrospective look at BBC coverage of the Second Lebanon War – part two

A review of the content produced by the BBC a decade ago at the time of the Second Lebanon War shows...

July 5, 2016

BBC’s Knell airbrushes two-thirds of Quartet report out of the picture

Later versions of the BBC News website’s June 30th article concerning that morning’s ter...

June 17, 2016

Bolstering and airbrushing BDS on BBC WS ‘Business Matters’ – part two

Following a long and misleading introduction (discussed in part one of this post, from 01:06 here), ...

May 13, 2016

BBC’s mantra on ‘international law’ becomes even less impartial

Listeners to the May 6th edition of the BBC World Service programme ‘Newshour’ (from 14:...