Joint Arab List

March 24, 2021

BBC’s Bateman goes south in superficial election report

On the morning of March 22nd visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page found the f...

October 18, 2020

BBC ignores Joint Arab List opposition to Abraham Accords

On October 16th the BBC News website published a report by business reporter Jonathan Josephs titled...

March 19, 2020

Financial Times profile of MK Tibi omits his support for terror

A March 19th Financial Times article focusing on MK Ahmed Tibi of the largely Arab Joint List party ...

March 18, 2020

BBC News continues to avoid the issue of Joint Arab List politics

Following the election in Israel at the beginning of March we documented the BBC’s provision of br...

March 8, 2020

BBC News signposts Israeli political lists – except one

Which political party did the BBC refrain from categorising? ...

March 4, 2020

More BBC Israel pre-election framing from Tom Bateman

More simplistic and uninformative reporting from a BBC Jerusalem-based correspondent. ...

March 3, 2020

BBC’s Bateman sketches a simplistic portrait of the Arab Israeli vote

On March 1st – the evening before Israel’s election – the BBC put out a report by its Jeru...

October 6, 2019

CAMERA Arabic prompts correction of three inaccuracies in one BBC report

A BBC Arabic backgrounder included multiple inaccuracies....

September 29, 2019

Israeli election coverage continues to advance a new narrative

The BBC ignores Arab-Israeli self-identification....

September 27, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....