Lod Airport terror attack 1972

December 13, 2020

Financial Times corrects article omitting Ghassan Kanafani’s terror affiliation

Last week, we posted about a Financial Times article that referred to Ghassan Kanafani merely as a &...

May 19, 2017

When did the BBC begin avoiding the use of the word terror in Israel reporting?

BBC avoidance of use of the word terror when reporting attacks on Israelis has been around for longe...

July 1, 2016

BBC article on Entebbe anniversary marred by euphemism

June 27th saw the appearance of two reports on the BBC News website’s Middle East page (one wr...

May 31, 2015

42+1 years on BBC still refrains from using the word terror

On May 27th the BBC World Service sent the following Tweet to its one hundred and ninety-four thousa...

May 22, 2014

42 years on – no change in BBC’s reluctance to use the word terror

Forty-two years after the Lod Airport massacre the BBC still will not use the word terror to describ...