Jim Muir

November 7, 2016

The BBC and the myth of the ‘twice promised land’

h/t SF In our recent review of BBC portrayal of the Balfour Declaration we noted that one of the bac...

August 16, 2016

Reviewing BBC reporting of Hizballah’s violations of UNSC Resolution 1701

On August 12th 2006 the BBC News website reported that: “The UN Security Council has unanimous...

May 20, 2016

Weekend long read

On May 16th an article by the BBC’s Beirut-based correspondent Jim Muir appeared in the ‘...

January 30, 2015

How the BBC framed the story of Hizballah’s latest attack

There is nothing novel about the BBC suggesting to its audiences that major decisions about Israel&#...

December 9, 2014

Vital information missing in BBC reports on alleged Israeli airstrikes in Syria

On the afternoon of December 7th the BBC News website published an article now titled “Israeli...

January 19, 2014

BBC coverage of STL amplifies Hizballah propaganda

There are currently two articles on the subject of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which opened pr...

January 16, 2014

Continuing serious breaches of editorial guidelines in ‘Newshour’ with Lyse Doucet

The BBC World Service’s flagship international news and current affairs radio programme ‘...

January 13, 2014

Loving the hate: BBC coverage of Sharon’s death

One of the notable features of the BBC’s tsunami of coverage of Ariel Sharon’s death –...

December 4, 2013

BBC amplifies Hizballah propaganda yet again

Late on the night of Tuesday December 3rd a senior Hizballah operative named Hassan Lakkis (also Laq...

November 3, 2013

BBC suggests failure to convene Syria peace conference will be Israel’s fault

Disagreements over who will attend it, flat-out rejection of the idea by some of the opposition mili...