Lawfare

July 30, 2021

No surprises: BBC promotes HRW’s latest anti-Israel screed

On the evening of July 27th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Israel-Gaza conflic...

March 12, 2021

Weekend long read

1) Writing at the Jewish Journal, Gerald Steinberg discusses ‘20 Years of NGO Lawfare’. “The a...

January 12, 2018

Promoted and quoted: the BBC’s preferred NGO contributors in 2017

The BBC continues to quote and promote political NGOs from one side of the spectrum. ...

December 21, 2017

BBC News still promoting information on Jerusalem from partisan NGOs

In 17 days the BBC News website promoted partisan maps eleven times....

November 16, 2017

Uncritical amplification of NGO allegations on BBC One

Allegations from two political NGOs were presented to BBC audiences as fact. ...

August 8, 2017

Political NGO gets unreserved BBC amplification yet again

The BBC once again unquestioningly amplifies HRW messaging on Israel. ...

February 5, 2017

BBC’s Gaza casualty figures source continues lawfare campaign

Last week the Israeli journalist Ben Dror Yemini published an article concerning another chapter in ...

October 13, 2016

BBC’s Knell relegates impartiality to the bench in campaigning football report

On October 13th a report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell appeared in the ‘Fe...

July 27, 2016

A retrospective look at BBC coverage of the Second Lebanon War – part two

A review of the content produced by the BBC a decade ago at the time of the Second Lebanon War shows...

July 13, 2016

BBC News portrayal of Israeli law airbrushes political NGOs

On July 12th the BBC News website’s Middle East page published an article titled “EU cri...