Lyse Doucet

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 ...

July 5, 2015

One to watch out for on BBC Two

It has been known for some time that the BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet ...

June 25, 2015

The BBC and the UN HRC report on last summer’s conflict – part two

In addition to the written article about the newly released UN HRC report which appeared on the BBC ...

June 13, 2015

BBC News passes up on the chance to correct Gaza misinformation

On June 12th the BBC News website’s Middle East page published an article titled “Gaza b...

May 1, 2015

BBC continues to avoid presenting full picture behind the P5+1 agreement with Iran

In the weeks that have passed since the framework agreement was reached between the P5+1 and Iran in...