Quentin Sommerville

July 19, 2014

BBC fails to adequately inform audiences on terrorist tunnels (and worse)

Quentin Sommerville’s filmed report for BBC television news late on July 17th (which also appe...

July 12, 2014

What are the dominant themes appearing in BBC filmed reports from the Gaza Strip?

As Operation Protective Edge progresses, the BBC is increasingly putting the focus of its reporting ...

June 15, 2014

Don’t mention the baklava: BBC reports on kidnapping of Israeli teens

After having initially ignored the search in Judea & Samaria for three Israeli teenagers abducte...

June 4, 2014

Cursory BBC coverage of PA unity government does disservice to audiences

The BBC News website’s coverage of the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation continued on June 2nd with a...

March 14, 2014

How did the BBC report the truce that wasn’t?

On the afternoon of Thursday, March 13th, an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle...

February 24, 2014

BBC double standards on checkpoints

A quick perusal of the BBC News website shows that the corporation has had quite a lot to say about ...

December 16, 2013

BBC website replaces article on shooting of Israeli soldier with ‘last-first’ report

At around 8:30 pm on Sunday, December 15th, IDF navy officer Shlomi Cohen aged 31 from Afula was dri...

November 3, 2013

BBC suggests failure to convene Syria peace conference will be Israel’s fault

Disagreements over who will attend it, flat-out rejection of the idea by some of the opposition mili...

July 2, 2013

New BBC ME correspondent – same old mantras

The BBC’s coverage of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest visit to the Middle East...