Language when Reporting Terrorism

April 23, 2023

Revisiting a BBC News website report from 2020

On February 6th 2020 the BBC News website published a report (which is still available online) conce...

April 16, 2023

BBC double standards on terrorism evident in Hamra attack reports

As regular readers know, the BBC’s editorial guidelines on ‘War, Terror and Emergencies’ inclu...

March 19, 2023

More of the same in BBC report on counter-terrorism op

In the early hours of March 17th (Israel time) the BBC News website published a report by David Grit...

February 8, 2023

BBC reporting on Jericho counter-terrorism operation

On the afternoon of February 6th a report headlined ‘Palestinian gunmen killed in Israeli raid in ...

January 31, 2023

BBC News website coverage of Jenin counter-terrorism operation

On the morning of January 26th Israeli forces conducted an operation in Jenin to arrest members of t...

January 30, 2023

False equivalence and familiar themes in BBC reports on second Jerusalem terror attack

Previously we looked at some of the BBC’s coverage of the January 27th terror attack in the Neve Y...

January 29, 2023

BBC reporting on Neve Ya’akov terror attack

The terror attack which took place on the evening of January 27th outside a synagogue in the Jerusal...

November 27, 2022

BBC News website coverage of Jerusalem terror attack

The first BBC News website reporting on the terror attacks in Jerusalem on the morning of November...

November 25, 2022

Reviewing initial BBC radio reporting on Jerusalem terror attacks

As we have repeatedly documented in recent months, the BBC has to date failed to provide its audienc...

November 17, 2022

BBC News yet again avoids the word terror in Ariel attack report

On the afternoon of November 15th the BBC News website published a report about a terror attack whic...