Martin Asser

July 18, 2021

BBC ignores PA condolences to terror group ‘comrades’

The death of the PFLP-GC leader Ahmed Jibril earlier this month in Damascus was not reported by the ...

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 – ...