Jeremy Bowen

June 3, 2021

Examining early BBC Radio 4 framing of the May 10 hostilities – part one

Previously we looked at points arising from the first hours of BBC Radio 4 coverage of the May 10th ...

June 2, 2021

BBC Radio 4 gives PA envoy unchallenged platform for promotion of lies

After Hamas had fired rockets at Jerusalem on the evening of May 10th – and as attacks continu...

June 1, 2021

BBC ME editor promotes think tank proposals on BBC platforms

Those following the BBC Middle East editor’s contributions to coverage of the recent attacks on Is...

May 27, 2021

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen rewrites the Beit Hanoun shortfall rocket incident

A significant number of readers have alerted us to a particularly one-sided report by the BBC Middle...

April 30, 2021

BBC’s ‘Today’ tosses editorial guidelines aside in HRW report promotion

In recent years we have documented the BBC’s amplification of anti-Israel campaigns involving or r...

March 21, 2021

Reviewing a decade of BBC reporting on Syria

A decade of BBC reporting on the civil war in Syria has produced some memorable moments such as the ...

November 24, 2020

BBC Radio 4 coverage of US Secretary of State visit – part two

In part one of this post we discussed a pre-emptive report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande ...

November 13, 2020

BBC’s ME editor promotes ‘apartheid’ trope in Erekat eulogy

Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Six O’Clock News’ on November 10th heard a report on the death e...

September 22, 2020

Reviewing BBC Radio 4’s framing of the Abraham Accords

Previously we looked at BBC World Service radio’s insertion of the topic of human rights in Bahrai...

September 17, 2020

Jeremy Bowen’s recommended reading on the Abraham Accords

On September 15th the BBC News website published an article on its ‘Middle East’ page in which M...