Lebanon

June 15, 2016

Beirut bank bomb blanked by BBC News

One might have thought that a story concerning a terror organisation’s threats against a sover...

June 5, 2016

Dumbing down ME politics with BBC Monitoring

On June 1st the BBC News website’s Middle East page published a video by BBC Monitoring which ...

April 14, 2016

BBC report on assassination in Lebanon fails to provide context

April 12th saw the appearance of a short article titled “Lebanon car bombing kills Palestinian...

February 1, 2016

BBC gives amplification to Middle Eastern conspiracy theories

When locals in the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbeil captured and abused a griffon vulture whi...

January 5, 2016

BBC News amplifies Hizballah propaganda in report on Har Dov attack

On January 4th the BBC News website’s Middle East page published a report titled “Hezbol...

December 21, 2015

Omission and equivalence in BBC News report on rockets from Lebanon

Early on the evening of December 20th residents of communities in the Western Galilee region had to ...

May 7, 2015

BBC News again amplifies unchallenged Hizballah spin

An article which appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on May 6th under the head...

February 3, 2015

Richard Millett expose of LSE event praising suicide bomber is picked up by UK media

Cross posted from Richard Millett’s Blog Last Tuesday, 27th January (Holocaust Memorial Day), ...

January 31, 2015

BBC’s Orla Guerin ignores the elephant in southern Lebanon

On January 29th the BBC’s Cairo correspondent Orla Guerin was to be found in southern Lebanon ...

January 30, 2015

How the BBC framed the story of Hizballah’s latest attack

There is nothing novel about the BBC suggesting to its audiences that major decisions about Israel&#...