Public Purposes

March 8, 2020

BBC News coverage of terrorism in Israel – February 2020

Our monthly review of BBC News website reporting on Palestinian terrorism. ...

March 5, 2020

BBC promotes linkage between elections on two continents

Radio 4 listeners were told that the outcome of the March 2nd Israeli election “could affect Mr Tr...

March 4, 2020

BBC ignores HRW’s dodgy donation

BBC audiences have seen no reporting of a story concerning one of its most quoted and promoted NGOs....

March 4, 2020

More BBC Israel pre-election framing from Tom Bateman

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

March 3, 2020

BBC’s Bateman sketches a simplistic portrait of the Arab Israeli vote

On March 1st – the evening before Israel’s election – the BBC put out a report by its Jeru...

March 3, 2020

BBC News promotes non-starter topic to advance Israel election narrative

BBC audiences were denied information that conflicts the chosen narrative. ...

March 1, 2020

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ promotes half a story from 2014

The failure to provide context to an incident brought up by Sackur prevents audience understanding. ...

February 26, 2020

A third BBC report from Beit Ijza highlights omissions in previous two

Why did Tom Bateman fail to provide international BBC audiences with information he apparently had? ...

February 25, 2020

What can BBC audiences expect if the ‘Great Return March’ returns?

Between March 2018 and December 2019 the BBC reported the 'Great Return March' using very specific f...

February 24, 2020

BBC News report on PIJ attacks focuses on Israel’s response

BBC audiences saw one two-sentence paragraph of reporting on rocket attacks against Israeli civilian...