Paul Henley

January 5, 2021

BBC’s Bateman fails to unravel Coronavirus vaccinations canard

Previously we looked at Lyse Doucet’s amplification of the false claim that Israel is responsible ...

November 16, 2020

BBC WS Newshour airs “tributes” to Erekat – part two

As we saw previously, around a quarter of the November 10th afternoon edition of the BBC World Servi...

November 15, 2020

BBC WS radio’s Newshour airs “tributes” to Erekat – part one

Around a quarter of the airtime on the November 10th afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radi...

October 26, 2020

BBC’s multi-platform olive harvest binge continues

As previously documented, a visit by the BBC Jerusalem bureau correspondent Tom Bateman to the villa...

October 7, 2020

BBC portrayal of the upcoming Israel-Lebanon maritime border talks

On October 1st the BBC News website published a report headlined “Lebanon and Israel to hold ̵...

August 26, 2020

BBC’s Newshour presents disinformation and lies as ‘context’ to balloon attacks

Earlier this month we noted that the BBC was ignoring the renewal of attacks from the Gaza Strip u...

April 2, 2020

More Corona-hooked Gaza Strip messaging on BBC WS radio

As regular readers know, since mid-March the BBC has produced several reports (see ‘related articl...

March 4, 2020

More BBC Israel pre-election framing from Tom Bateman

More simplistic and uninformative reporting from a BBC Jerusalem-based correspondent. ...

November 14, 2019

Rocket attacks on Israel prompt BBC WS interview with serial Gaza contributor

The BBC returns to the previously seen editorial policy of covering rocket attacks on Israelis with ...

November 13, 2019

‘Quite forthcoming with the confrontational approach’: guess what the BBC is describing

Once again the BBC avoids the word terror when reporting on rocket attacks against Israeli civilians...