Kevin Connolly

October 22, 2017

One-sided BBC background recycles BDS falsehoods

In an article relating to BDS, the BBC re-promoted an activist's inaccuracies from 2015....

March 1, 2017

BBC Radio 4 recycles an evasive report by Kevin Connolly

At the beginning of November 2016 the BBC World Service radio programme “On Background” ...

December 22, 2016

Documenting five years of BBC politicisation of Christmas

Christmas is coming and with it – if the BBC’s record over the past five years is anything t...

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...

November 6, 2016

BBC’s director of news discusses antisemitism – up to a point

On November 5th BBC World Service radio broadcast an edition of the programme ‘On Background&#...

October 5, 2016

BBC WS breaches impartiality guidelines with Ben White interview on Peres

“We should not automatically assume that contributors from other organisations (such as academ...

September 29, 2016

BBC radio marks Peres’ death with Palestinian propaganda – part one

The September 28th afternoon edition of the BBC World Service current affairs programme ‘Newsh...

September 28, 2016

Coverage of Shimon Peres’ death promotes the BBC’s political narrative

As was to be expected, with the announcement of the death of Israel’s ninth president Shimon P...

September 1, 2016

A BBC promoted BDS myth exposed

Over the years BBC audiences have seen, heard and read frequent mainstreaming promotion of the Boyco...

August 3, 2016

The BBC, European ‘fear’ and Israeli ‘paranoia’

Last October we discussed an article by Kevin Connolly – then of the BBC’s Jerusalem bureau ...