Munich Olympics Massacre

September 4, 2022

The latest BBC reporting on the Munich Olympics terror attack

Five years ago we documented the BBC’s failure, for the most part, to describe the 1972 Munich Oly...

August 21, 2022

BBC website tells part of the story on Abbas’ latest Holocaust remarks

On August 17th the BBC News website published a report titled ‘Israel and Germany condemn Palestin...

July 26, 2021

Munich Olympics massacre perpetrators still euphemised by the BBC

Late on the evening of July 23rd (UK time) the BBC News website published a report about the first o...

November 16, 2018

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading. ...

August 20, 2018

BBC R4 listeners hear more ‘contextualisation’ of Corbyn wreath-laying

In which BBC Radio 4 listeners hear that too much fuss is being made about anti-Jewish racism....

August 16, 2018

BBC Two’s Victoria Derbyshire and a non-existent political party

The standard of BBC fact-checking in evidence on BBC Two....

August 15, 2018

Reviewing BBC Radio 4 coverage of Corbyn wreath laying story – part two

A discussion about Jeremy Corbyn's pockets, conspiracy theories about doctored photos and irrelevant...

August 15, 2018

Reviewing BBC Radio 4 coverage of Corbyn wreath laying story – part one

BBC Radio 4 listeners hear Black September terrorists described as 'activists' - twice....

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...

September 4, 2017

Reviewing the language used in BBC reports on the Munich Olympics Massacre

How does BBC News describe the perpetrators of the Munich Olympics massacre and which BBC department...