Martin Asser

August 16, 2016

Reviewing BBC reporting of Hizballah’s violations of UNSC Resolution 1701

On August 12th 2006 the BBC News website reported that: “The UN Security Council has unanimous...

March 31, 2014

BBC’s “Obstacles to Peace”: a barrier to understanding Israel’s borders

The BBC’s July 2013 backgrounder titled “Middle East peace talks: Where they stand“...

February 24, 2014

BBC double standards on checkpoints

A quick perusal of the BBC News website shows that the corporation has had quite a lot to say about ...

October 18, 2013

BBC’s “Obstacles to Peace” erases pre-1967 Jewish history in Jerusalem

Since we last visited the subject of the BBC’s four-part series of articles titled ‘Obst...

October 12, 2013

13 years on: BBC website still misleads over 2000 Ramallah lynching

As has been noted here previously, the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines on accuracy include a sub-sectio...

July 29, 2013

New BBC Hizballah profile reveals SEO fail

As we have noted here on several occasions – and most recently on July 18th 2013 – the three yea...

July 12, 2013

BBC’s ‘Obstacles to Peace’: wrong on right of return – Part 2

In the first part of this article we discussed Martin Asser’s partisan treatment of the subje...

July 11, 2013

BBC’s ‘Obstacles to Peace’: wrong on right of return – Part 1

As we noted earlier this year, via the country profile for Israel on the BBC’s Middle East pag...

March 19, 2013

Revisiting a BBC story about charcoal

Back in October 2007 the BBC’s Martin Asser – then stationed in the Middle East – ...

February 15, 2013

BBC’s “Obstacles to Peace” do not hold water – part 2

In part one of this article we looked at the various historical claims made by Martin Asser in his ...