Ismail Haniyeh

August 9, 2024

Weekend long read

1) The ITIC documents ‘Reactions to the Deaths of Fuad Shukr and Isma’il Haniyeh’. “Nasr...

August 8, 2024

BBC News airbrushes new Hamas leader’s CV

On the evening of August 6th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Hamas names Yahya ...

August 2, 2024

Weekend long read

1) At WINEP, Matthew Levitt analyses ‘The Death of a Hezbollah Lifer’. “Born in 1961 or 1962, ...

August 1, 2024

BBC News website live page framing of Haniyeh assassination

When the news broke of the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran early on July 31st...

July 7, 2024

BBC News corrects inaccurate claims concerning ICC warrants

Last month we documented a BBC News website report dating from June 12th in which readers were misle...

June 25, 2024

BBC News website promotes inaccurate claims about ICC warrants

On June 12th the BBC News website published a report by Matt Murphy headlined ‘Israel, Hamas accus...

April 10, 2023

BBC reports on attacks from Lebanon exclude essential information

On the first day of the Pessah festival – April 6th – Israelis residing and holidaying in the We...

July 8, 2022

BBC News inaccurate on Abbas-Haniyeh meeting

A headline that appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on July 6th informed BBC...

June 6, 2022

Narrow and shallow: BBC reporting on Jerusalem Day

Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Midnight News’ on May 30th heard the following short report (from ...

October 29, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At the Jerusalem Post, Khaled Abu Toameh reports on a phone call related to a compromise in the S...