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June 20, 2017

Superficial BBC Radio 4 reporting on Qatar funding of Hamas

Yolande Knell fails to tell the whole story behind Qatari funding of Hamas....

June 13, 2017

BBC’s Hugh Sykes tells R4 listeners that Jews rejected the Partition Plan

Listeners to BBC Radio 4's 'PM' are told that Jews rejected the 1947 Partition Plan. ...

January 3, 2017

‘Analysis’ from BBC R4: Hizballah doesn’t threaten Israeli civilians

Even as the US Secretary of State was still speaking on the topic of the two-state solution on Decem...

August 25, 2016

BBC News reframes and politicises an animal welfare story

A filmed report which appeared on the BBC News website’s homepage as well as on its ‘Wor...

August 18, 2016

BBC coverage of Choudary conviction ignores his BBC appearances

Like many other UK media organisations, the BBC produced considerable coverage of the story of the c...

August 2, 2016

BBC’s Knell whitewashes terror in re-run of Palestinian teacher story

When the BBC reported back in March on a prize-winning Palestinian teacher, it managed to omit some ...

May 15, 2016

BBC Radio 4’s ‘PM’ resuscitates a two month-old story

Back in March, the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ produced a report about ...

February 21, 2016

The continuing saga of the BBC’s failure to make a simple correction

At the beginning of February the BBC broadcast two radio reports in which Tel Aviv was inaccurately ...

February 5, 2016

BBC Africa misrepresents campaigning reports as ‘scoop’

It is not difficult to discern when the BBC is running a campaign rather than merely reporting a sto...

November 17, 2015

Context-free amplification of BDS in BBC reports on London Mayor’s remarks

As our colleague Adam Levick noted over at UK Media Watch, the Guardian’s coverage of the Mayo...