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January 25, 2023

BBC News website reporting on Silwad incident

Previously we looked at a BBC Radio 4 news report in which it was incorrectly claimed that “the Is...

September 8, 2022

Predictable BBC reporting on IDF Abu Akleh investigation results

From the moment on May 11th when the news broke that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh had bee...

March 1, 2020

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ promotes half a story from 2014

The failure to provide context to an incident brought up by Sackur prevents audience understanding. ...

January 18, 2018

BBC’s Knell reports on the Tamimi case again – and raises a question

BBC News website publishes its fourth item on Ahed Tamimi in less than a month. ...

January 3, 2018

BBC News omits a relevant part of the Tamimi charges story

The BBC's portrayal of charges against Ahed Tamimi omits relevant information....

August 30, 2016

BBC’s 2014 claim of an attack on a UN school shown to be inaccurate

On August 3rd 2014 the BBC told its audiences that Israeli forces had attacked a UN school in Rafah....

August 25, 2016

A BBC story from August 2014 still in need of clarification

As was noted here two years ago: “Between August 16th [2014] and August 20th inclusive the B...

June 26, 2015

Revisiting BBC reporting of civilian deaths in Gaza on July 28th 2014 – yet again

As readers know, the BBC’s coverage of the recently released UN HRC report on last summer̵...

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...

June 6, 2015

Weekend long read

Writing at the Weekly Standard, William Stern provides a fascinating behind the scenes view of the I...