Mavi Marmara

June 28, 2016

A story serially avoided by the BBC comes home to roost

On June 27th the BBC News website’s Middle East page published an article titled “Israel...

December 21, 2015

BBC News again misleads audiences regarding Gaza naval blockade

On December 18th an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the head...

September 22, 2015

BBC exploits European migrant crisis for political messaging on ‘educational’ site

BBC produced content is of course widely used by researchers, academics, educators and teachers as w...

February 9, 2015

Lazy BBC reporting on Turkish FM’s quitting Munich conference

On February 6th an article appeared on both the Europe and Middle East pages of the BBC News website...

November 9, 2014

BBC News misleads audiences on ICC Mavi Marmara statement

On November 6th the BBC News website’s Middle East page carried a report currently going under...

May 16, 2013

BBC sensationalises routine obligatory inquiry

A dramatic headline appearing on the Middle East page of the BBC News website on May 14th announced ...

April 24, 2013

BBC recognizes that the Mavi Marmara was not an “aid ship”

As we noted here on March 24th, in the plethora of BBC reports concerning what it (wrongly) termed t...

April 10, 2013

BBC still promoting inaccurate information on flotilla

An April 7th BBC News television report on the subject of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s v...

March 30, 2013

BBC turns political activists into "aid workers"

A report entitled “Libyans held for ‘sex attack’ on Britons in Benghazi“, da...

March 27, 2013

Yet another major BBC accuracy fail in reporting 2010 flotilla

The BBC Editorial Guidelines on accuracy state: “The BBC must not knowingly and materially mis...