Owen Bennett-Jones

October 5, 2015

BBC prefers pageantry to serious discussion of Abbas’ threats on Oslo accords

As might have been anticipated, the BBC did not skimp on its coverage of the hoisting of the Palesti...

July 7, 2015

BBC WS ‘Newshour’ fails to deliver on PA arrests of Hamas operatives

Late last week Palestinian Authority security forces arrested a large number of Hamas operatives in ...

June 10, 2015

BBC WS radio promotes Avi Shlaim’s historical misrepresentations – part two

As we saw in part one of this post, on May 31st Oxford professor Avi Shlaim appeared on the panel of...

June 9, 2015

BBC WS radio promotes Avi Shlaim’s historical misrepresentations – part one

Visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page on June 1st were presented with an article...

May 31, 2015

Kevin Connolly continues the BBC’s amplification of anti-Israel delegitimisation

In addition to the promotion and amplification of the Palestinian Authority’s latest political...

January 26, 2015

Confusing BBC audiences with unqualified agenda-based opinion

“The BBC will use the opportunity presented by its long-form documentary and current affairs o...

September 1, 2014

BBC WS radio’s ‘Newshour’: insights into presenter intervention on inaccurate claims

Readers may have seen this video doing the rounds on the internet. It is taken from the August 20th ...

September 27, 2013

The unstated connections of a BBC R4 Middle East ‘expert’

Readers may have noticed a link titled “Who supports whom?” – with the subheading ...

February 22, 2013

BBC selected ‘expert opinions’ and transparency

As we know, the BBC claims that: “A member of the audience who watches, listens and reads the ...