Issa Amro

May 12, 2025

The BBC’s ‘Louis Theroux: The Settlers’ is above all tediously predictable

When the BBC Media Centre announced in February 2025 that it had commissioned a documentary titled â...

December 25, 2022

BBC’s Bateman again promotes claims from political NGOs

One way of recognising BBC promotion of a particular topic – as opposed to straightforward news re...

July 19, 2022

BBC wind in the ‘apartheid’ smear’s sails

Previously we saw how, in a July 14th TV report about the US president’s visit to the Middle East,...

February 4, 2021

Guardian corrects suggestion Palestinian was convicted of “insulting a soldier”

In our recent post on a distortion-filled Guardian op-ed by Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh, we not...

February 1, 2021

Guardian op-ed shills for faux progressive “human rights defender” Issa Amro

The objective of Raja Shehadeh’s Guardian op-ed – as illustrated by the headline, “...

October 31, 2017

Background on a recurrent BBC interviewee

Is the BBC's portrayal of a "prominent human rights activist" accurate and impartial? ...

September 7, 2017

BBC News squeezes ‘settlements’ into internal PA affairs story

Did the BBC finally produce some reporting on internal Palestinian affairs? Not really....

November 3, 2015

BBC World Service ‘Newshour’: using ‘alleged’ and ‘fact’ for framing

In addition to the filmed report from Hebron shown on BBC television news programmes on October 30th...

November 2, 2015

Absurdity of BBC’s ‘international law’ mantra exposed by Yolande Knell

Nearly nineteen years ago, in January 1997, Israel and the PLO signed an agreement called the “...

March 11, 2015

Guardian profiles 'non-violent' Palestinian activist…who won't condemn Hamas violence

On March 10th, the Guardian published a first person essay (on their Global Development page) by Is...