Omar Shakir

December 21, 2023

BBC News promotes HRW’s false ‘starvation’ allegations

Just after 7 p.m. Israeli time on December 18th the BBC News website published a report by David Gri...

May 5, 2023

BBC contributors’ reactions to the death of a PIJ leader

Previously we looked at the BBC News website’s coverage of the death of the senior Palestinian Isl...

March 16, 2023

BBC radio avoids the topic of Palestinian terrorist organisations

Previously we looked at a BBC News website report which mentioned an incident near Jit on the mornin...

September 2, 2022

BBC report amplifies the anti-Israel NGO echo chamber

On the evening of August 30th the BBC News website published a report headlined ‘Israeli court sen...

July 3, 2022

One year on, same inaccurate BBC messaging on BDS

When the Ben & Jerry’s saga began almost a year ago, we documented the messaging promoted by t...

January 25, 2022

Template BBC reporting on Sheikh Jarrah eviction

On the afternoon of January 19th a report titled “Sheikh Jarrah: Israeli police evict Palestinians...

July 12, 2021

Down the BBC Complaints procedure rabbit hole

As we all too often have cause to note on these pages, the BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartial...

May 2, 2021

BBC News website uncritically amplifies HRW report

On the morning of April 27th the BBC News website published a 780-word report headlined “Israel co...

April 30, 2021

BBC’s ‘Today’ tosses editorial guidelines aside in HRW report promotion

In recent years we have documented the BBC’s amplification of anti-Israel campaigns involving or r...

January 28, 2021

BBC WS radio ignores editorial guidelines in yet another vaccinations item

The lead item in the evening edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ on Janu...