Newsnight

June 10, 2018

Editorialising, omission and inaccuracies from BBC’s Evan Davis

Evan Davis explains to 'Newsnight' viewers "who is the obstacle to peace"....

December 15, 2017

Weekend long read

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

November 19, 2017

BBC 2’s ‘Newsnight’ squeezes Israel into Bosnia report

Why did "the Israelis" come up in a 'Newsnight' report on war crimes in Bosnia? ...

June 30, 2017

BBC’s ‘Newsnight’ report on extremist group ignores its own role

BBC 2's 'Newsnight' report on an extremist group in the UK ignores one particular side of the story....

May 5, 2017

Former BBC interviewee on antisemitism resurfaces on Holocaust denial list

A former 'Newsnight' interviewee on the topic of antisemitism appears on a list of Holocaust denying...

April 13, 2017

BBC Two’s ‘Newsnight’ jumps on the ‘cultural censorship’ bandwagon

BBC 2's 'Newsnight' brings the latest in a series of dark stories of 'cultural censorship' in Israel...

December 21, 2016

Revisiting the BBC’s amplification of an NGO’s PR

The Guardian reports that the head of Oxfam GB has described the NGO’s 2014 campaign against t...

September 22, 2016

BBC current affairs revisits antisemitism and anti-Zionism – part two

As was documented in part one of this post, on September 7th listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘...

May 6, 2016

Weekend long read

It has been a tumultuous couple of weeks as scandals involving the UK Labour party once again hogged...

February 24, 2016

BBC interviewee selected to comment on antisemitism story convicted of antisemitism

In early January 2014 both BBC Two’s ‘Newsnight’ and BBC Radio 4’s ‘To...