Palestinian prisoners

September 17, 2021

Weekend long read

1) Jonathan Spyer analyses The Surrender of Deraa. “The shifting balance of power in this south w...

June 23, 2020

The two names BBC audiences have never heard

This summer marks six years since Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul and Lt. Hadar Goldin were killed during Oper...

November 28, 2019

Guardian revives lie that there are Palestinian “political prisoners” in Israel

A Guardian article (“Lawyer criticises secretive Israeli case against Gaza aid worker”, ...

June 25, 2019

BBC radio ‘impartial’ on payments to terrorists

Yolande Knell fails to adequately clarify that PA financial rewards are given only to those involved...

April 12, 2019

No BBC reporting on Hamas prisoners’ hunger strike

BBC audiences have heard nothing of Hamas' latest demands. ...

October 26, 2018

Looking beyond the BBC Berlin correspondent’s framing

The BBC's framing of an event 'defending human rights and tolerance' does not tell the whole story....

September 13, 2018

BBC WS airbrushes terror out of a story about Palestinian prisoners

Listeners to 'The Fifth Floor' hear politicised "human stories that deserve to be heard" from BBC Mo...

August 1, 2018

One sided reports from BBC Arabic’s Nida Ibrahim – part three

Another report by BBC Arabic's Nida Ibrahim glorifies Palestinian violence....

May 28, 2017

BBC report on end of Palestinian prisoners’ ‘hunger strike’ tells part of the story

Like previous coverage of the story, the BBC's report on the end of the Palestinian prisoners' 'hung...

May 25, 2017

UKMW prompts Indy correction to sentence claiming 750,000 Palestinian prisoners since 1967

The claim, that there's been 750,000 Palestinian prisoners since 1967, stated as fact by McKernan, i...