Osama Hamdan

February 27, 2025

Why doesn’t the BBC tell the story behind its ‘permanent ceasefire’ framing?

In recent weeks visitors to the BBC News website have seen repeated promotion of the notion of a “...

November 1, 2024

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS, Orna Mizrahi lays out the changes that need to be made to a UN peacekeeping force in...

June 6, 2024

BBC framing of Hamas reactions to the US ceasefire proposal

Since May 31st the BBC News website has published several reports relating to the topic of the speec...

July 23, 2019

No dots to join in BBC News Gulf crisis backgrounder

A novel audience in Tehran is not newsworthy for 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...

August 14, 2017

Filling in the blanks in BBC reports on Hamas, Qatar and Iran

Hamas rapprochement with Iran continues to be under-reported by the BBC....

November 28, 2014

BBC WS promotes Hamas claim of “normal right” to carry out terror attacks

As readers may have heard, the Israeli Security Agency announced on November 27th that it had arrest...

July 11, 2014

BBC World Service broadcasts unchallenged defamatory Hamas propaganda to millions

At the heart of the BBC’s very raison d’etre are the public purposes defined in its Roya...

November 19, 2012

‘Comment is Free’ publishes an essay by a Hamas leader…again.

IDF strikes on Nov. 18 knocked out the Hamas television stations Al Aqsa and Al Quds in Gaza, but ...

June 11, 2012

Islamism, and the Guardian left’s moral complicity with antisemitism

“In the Middle East, [antisemitism] has taken on a particularly dangerous, toxic and potential...