Lyse Doucet

August 12, 2015

Hamas man spills beans on appropriation of construction materials: BBC silent

Over the past year the BBC has devoted considerable multi-platform coverage to the topic of reconstr...

August 10, 2015

BBC doubles down on its creative translation of ‘Yahud’

Recent weeks have seen two cases in which the BBC chose to inaccurately translate the Arabic word &#...

August 3, 2015

BBC reporting on Hamas youth camps

Readers may recall that last February we pondered the question “Is a BBC documentary about Ham...

July 19, 2015

BBC portrayal of the Iran nuclear deal – part two

In part one of this post we looked at the messaging concerning the JCPOA deal between the P5+1 and I...

July 12, 2015

BBC does know how to translate ‘Yahud’ – when it is said in the UK

Thank you to all the readers who took the trouble to contact us to point out that – in contras...

July 11, 2015

Hate speech, lies and antisemitism on BBC News Facebook page

One of the BBC’s defined public purposes is titled ‘Global Outlook’ and the BBC Tr...

July 10, 2015

BBC’s Doucet explains why Yemen gets less coverage than Gaza

Here, for the record, is an interesting Twitter exchange: BBC audiences would no doubt be very inter...

July 10, 2015

BBC ‘Gaza war anniversary’ coverage continues to mislead on the causes of the conflict

Back in February 2015 the BBC decided to produce a series of reports and programmes (see some exampl...

July 9, 2015

The history – and the BBC Trust decision – behind Lyse Doucet’s mistranslation of ‘yahud’

An article which appeared in the Jewish Chronicle on July 8th has been making waves on social media ...

July 8, 2015

Lyse Doucet’s promotion of her BBC Two ‘Children of the Gaza War’ programme

Promotion for Lyse Doucet’s programme ‘Children of the Gaza War’ – timed to ...