Quentin Sommerville

February 8, 2022

BBC News again skirts the topic of Hizballah drug trafficking

Back in December 2020 we documented the appearance of a report by the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville ab...

December 29, 2020

Superficial BBC report on Hizballah drug trafficking

Back in July the BBC News website published a report headlined ‘Captagon: Italy seizes €1bn of a...

September 11, 2017

A BBC terror indoctrination feature highlights longstanding omission

A BBC feature on ISIS indoctrination of children highlights its silence on the similar abuse of Pale...

September 5, 2016

A BBC story from 2015 resurfaces

Back in August 2015 BBC correspondents in the Middle East Tweeted the following news: The missing me...

August 23, 2015

BBC’s Sinai Hamas kidnapping story tells a partial tale

On August 20th BBC correspondents in the Middle East tweeted the following news: As was stated in th...

March 2, 2015

BBC’s Sommerville showcases PIJ rearmament but refrains from asking who supplied the weapons

On February 26th the BBC’s Jerusalem Bureau’s Quentin Sommerville produced two reports â...

December 28, 2014

BBC report on Christmas in Bethlehem amplifies PA political messaging yet again

Attempts to co-opt Christmas for Palestinian political messaging are nothing new and neither is the ...

December 20, 2014

Missile from Gaza not news for the BBC but Israeli response gets headlines

On the morning of December 19th a missile fired from the Gaza Strip hit the Eshkol region of the Wes...

December 3, 2014

Overview of BBC reporting on recent violence and terror in Israel

Since late October much of the BBC’s Israel-related subject matter has been focused on the sur...

December 2, 2014

A round up of BBC coverage of the Har Nof terror attack

The BBC’s coverage of the terror attack in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Har Nof on November ...