Jeremy Bowen

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...

October 19, 2023

Why BBC reporting on the Al Ahli hospital incident should not surprise

On the evening of October 17th the BBC was quick to tell its worldwide audiences about an “Israeli...

October 12, 2023

BBC’s Bowen does whataboutery in Kfar Aza

On October 10th the IDF took members of the international press to Kibbutz Kfar Aza where soldiers w...

October 11, 2023

BBC backgrounder on Hamas attacks short on ‘essential context’

Some twelve hours after Hamas’ launching of thousands of missiles and infiltrations into Israeli t...

August 4, 2023

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – JULY 2023

Throughout the month of July 2023, forty written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or the Pal...

July 23, 2023

BBC News airbrushes weapons and explosives in Jenin mosque

Previously we looked at how the BBC News website portrayed the background to and reasons for the co...

July 19, 2023

How did the BBC explain the Jenin counter-terror operation?

The BBC News website has to date published seven written reports relating to the July 3rd/4th counte...

July 17, 2023

BBC’s Bateman promotes a Jenin story based on an unverified video

On July 9th the Times published an article by Catherine Philip concerning the previous week’s coun...

July 10, 2023

What did BBC reports from a Jenin hospital ignore?

Visitors to the BBC News website’s live page covering the two-day counter-terrorism operation in J...

June 1, 2023

Evolving stories told by the BBC’s international editor

As noted here previously, on May 30th the Times published an article by Jack Malvern about the promo...