Mohammed Shtayyeh

April 27, 2021

Omissions in BBC coverage of violence in Jerusalem

On the evening of April 13th rioting took place in Jerusalem: “Five people were arrested Tuesday n...

March 26, 2021

Fact checking the BBC’s ‘fact checking arm’

Previously we have discussed a rolling article – and some of its subsequent amendments – pro...

May 29, 2020

Weekend long read

1) NGO Monitor reports on ‘The Politics of OCHA’s COVID-19 Humanitarian Aid in the West Bank and...

May 11, 2020

A new Palestinian Authority committee and a Corona loan get no BBC coverage

In mid-2019 the BBC produced quite a lot of coverage of the Palestinian Authority’s financial cris...

July 1, 2019

BBC WS ‘Newshour’ listeners get little more than PA talking points

A 'Newshour' report fails to deliver. ...

June 27, 2019

More monochrome BBC WS radio reporting on the Bahrain workshop

Once again BBC reporting avoids key issues in portrayal of peace efforts....

June 10, 2019

BBC News finally gets round to mentioning new PA prime minister

BBC reporting on the PA's self-inflicted financial crisis. ...

March 11, 2019

New PA PM not newsworthy for the BBC

Palestinian politics continue to go under-reported by the BBC....

August 14, 2018

Over a third of BBC website’s Corbyn wreath laying report allocated to denials

Background and context missing from the BBC News website's report on the latest UK Labour party scan...

January 23, 2017

BBC WS listeners hear anti-terrorist fence falsehood and more

In addition to the reporting on last week’s conference in Paris seen on the BBC News website (...