Knesset

May 26, 2022

BBC News again warps portrayal of Arabs in Israeli government

Over the past week the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page has published two reports by Raff...

May 20, 2022

BBC’s ECU partly upholds eleven-month-old complaint

Almost a year ago Mr Stephen Franklin made a complaint to the BBC about news bulletins aired on BBC ...

March 22, 2022

BBC WS radio claims Israel has ‘schizophrenic position’ on Ukraine

On the evening of March 20th a short item by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell which appear...

November 12, 2021

Weekend long read

1) The ITIC has documented ‘Palestinian reactions to Israel’s decision to outlaw organizatio...

October 28, 2021

BBC report on Israel government spending plan falls short

October 25th saw the appearance of a report headlined “Israeli cabinet backs huge spending plan fo...

July 15, 2021

BBC Radio 4 promotion of the apartheid smear – part two

In part one of this post we discussed the first part of the July 5th edition of the BBC Radio 4 prog...

July 14, 2021

BBC Radio 4 promotion of the apartheid smear – part one

The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Analysis’ self-portrays as a “Programme examining the ideas and for...

July 11, 2021

BBC Radio 4 misleads with inaccurate portrayals of Israeli citizenship law

The July 6th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘The World Tonight’ included an item (from 16:57 here) i...

July 9, 2021

BBC report fails to provide full context to Israeli citizenship law

An article headlined “Israel’s new government fails to extend controversial citizenship lawâ...

July 4, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – JUNE 2021

Throughout the month of June 2021, forty-four written or filmed reports (one of which was removed) r...