Israel

July 5, 2020

Editors’ note on cancel culture and misuse of the term “antisemitism”

We recently tweeted our response to a tweet that suggested not only that the BBC was institutionally...

July 5, 2020

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – JUNE 2020

Throughout the month of June 2020, fourteen written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or the ...

July 2, 2020

Sky News Arabia promotes lie that Israel caused Gaza baby’s death

Sky News Arabia’s Gaza correspondent, Mohammed Mashharawi erroneously blamed Israel for “prevent...

July 2, 2020

BBC Radio 4 listeners told Israel ‘officially’ rejects the two-state solution

Since mid-May the BBC has devoted much energy, air-time and column space to the preemptive framing o...

July 1, 2020

Guardian’s annexation editorial: predictable, illiberal and ahistorical.

Guardian editorials on Israel can usually be relied upon to include the following elements of bias: ...

July 1, 2020

BBC ‘Focus on Africa’ interviewer uses ‘white Jews’ stereotype

On June 24th the BBC News website posted a video on its ‘Middle East’ page with the headline “...

June 30, 2020

Another history-free ‘annexation backgrounder’ from BBC News

Despite the fact that the June 16th written backgrounder titled “Israel, annexation and the West B...

June 29, 2020

BBC’s Knell fails to challenge the PA on decision affecting healthcare

On June 14th we noted that BBC audiences had not seen any reporting on how Mahmoud Abbas’ May 19th...

June 29, 2020

Bateman’s ‘annexation’ road trip reveals nothing new to BBC audiences

The BBC’s generous coverage of an event which has not happened (see ‘related articles’ below) ...

June 28, 2020

BBC Jerusalem correspondent again misleads on the Oslo Accords

Three and a half years ago the BBC adopted the PLO’s interpretation of the term ‘two-state solut...