Palestinian affairs

May 5, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – APRIL 2021

Throughout the month of April 2021, thirty-three written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or...

May 4, 2021

BBC report on PA election postponement promotes Abbas narrative

As we have previously noted, ever since Mahmoud Abbas’ January 15th presidential decree ordering t...

April 29, 2021

BBC News produces first report on Palestinian elections

Three months after Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree ordering elections for the first time ...

April 12, 2021

Simplistic BBC reporting on renewal of US funding to Palestinians

A report published on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on April 7th under the headlin...

April 6, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – MARCH 2021

Throughout the month of March 2021, twenty written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or the P...

March 22, 2021

BBC audiences still in the dark on domestic Palestinian politics

Over the past two months we have been taking an occasional look at developments in a story that the ...

March 18, 2021

Close Gaza Hamas election goes unreported by the BBC

Long-time readers may recall that back in February 2017 we noted the BBC’s failure to report the e...

March 14, 2021

Reviewing BBC reporting on legal stories involving Israelis and Palestinians

On March 12th the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page published a report headlined “Yehuda...

March 2, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – FEBRUARY 2021

Throughout the month of February 2021, twenty-eight written or filmed reports relating to Israel and...

February 26, 2021

BBC silence on scheduled Palestinian elections continues

Over a month ago we noted that BBC audiences had seen no coverage whatsoever of Mahmoud Abbas’ pre...