Omission

July 29, 2021

BBC News avoids another Gaza Strip human shields story

On the morning of July 22nd an explosion occurred in al Zawiya market in Gaza City. One person was k...

July 23, 2021

BBC continues to avoid the whole story in BDS reports

Previously we looked at some of the BBC’s early coverage of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream boyc...

July 22, 2021

BBC continues to frame spyware story as exclusively Israel linked

Previously we looked at how the BBC News website and BBC World Service radio failed to inform their ...

July 9, 2021

BBC report fails to provide full context to Israeli citizenship law

An article headlined “Israel’s new government fails to extend controversial citizenship lawâ...

June 18, 2021

BBC News website turns ‘arson attacks’ into ‘fire balloons’

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on the morning of June 16th were informe...

June 17, 2021

BBC portrayals of Israel’s new government omit Muslim and Druze ministers

On June 13th and 14th the BBC News website published three reports concerning Israel’s new governm...

June 11, 2021

BBC News again amplifies Al Jazeera’s baseless claims

On the evening of June 8th the BBC News website published a report titled “Israel says Gaza tower ...

June 8, 2021

Another UNRWA story ignored by the BBC

On June 2nd the BBC’s Sebastian Usher put out the following Tweet: Seeing as the BBC has not produ...

May 31, 2021

Multiplatform promotion of partial Sheikh Jarrah narrative from BBC’s Paul Adams

In recent weeks BBC audiences have seen plenty of partial (in both senses of the word) portrayals of...

May 27, 2021

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen rewrites the Beit Hanoun shortfall rocket incident

A significant number of readers have alerted us to a particularly one-sided report by the BBC Middle...