Israel

November 2, 2023

Omissions in BBC reporting on foreign nationals in the Gaza Strip

For years the BBC has been using terms such as “siege” and “open-air prison” to describe the...

November 1, 2023

BBC News continues to fail on use of language

When it’s boiled down, journalism is all about language. A journalist’s choice of words clearly ...

October 31, 2023

Financial Times gives Hamas a moral pass

The Financial Times published an editorial representing another example of a media outlet effectivel...

October 30, 2023

Round-up of media errors in covering the the war – Oct. 30

The unprecedented multi-front attacks on Israelis carried out by the terror group Hamas on October...

October 30, 2023

Reviewing BBC Verify reporting on the Salah al Din road explosion

Previously we have discussed reporting by the BBC’s relatively new fact-checking brand BBC Verify ...

October 29, 2023

Round-up of media errors in coverage of the war – Oct. 29

The unprecedented multi-front attacks on Israelis carried out by the terror group Hamas on October...

October 29, 2023

Reviewing BBC Verify reporting on the al Ahli hospital incident

Given that BBC coverage of the explosion at al Ahli hospital in the Gaza Strip on the evening of Oct...

October 27, 2023

Weekend long read

1) The INSS provides a useful and regularly updated resource: ‘Israel at War: An Overview’. 2) T...

October 27, 2023

BBC News inaccurate on geography of Hamas terror attacks

One of the entries on the BBC News website’s live pages covering the Hamas invasion and massacres ...

October 26, 2023

Examining BBC Verify reports on the October 7 events in Israel

In May of this year the BBC announced the launch of a “new brand“ called ‘BBC Verify’: THE B...