Razia Iqbal

November 8, 2021

BBC WS radio continues to promote a monochrome view of the PFLP NGOs story

Since news broke on October 22nd that Israel’s minister of defence had designated six Palestinian ...

September 13, 2021

BBC’s Bateman avoids the word terror in report on escaped prisoners

The September 6th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included an item (...

August 12, 2021

More of the same in BBC reports from Silwan

Readers may recall that in late June, BBC World Service radio aired a completely one-sided and conte...

August 6, 2021

Reviewing impartiality in BBC coverage of the Sheikh Jarrah case – part two

In part one of this post we discussed the BBC’s use of partisan terminology and its predominant am...

June 25, 2021

BBC WS radio misleads on timeline of arson attacks from Gaza

The final item in the June 16th afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsho...

April 23, 2021

Patchy challenges to Iranian propagandist on BBC World Service radio

Long-time readers may remember the Iranian regime apologist and English Literature professor Mohamma...

January 15, 2021

BBC continues to omit context to recurrent story

The final item in the January 11th afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘New...

November 25, 2020

BBC WS radio portrayal of US Secretary of State visit to Israel

Previously we discussed two items concerning the US Secretary of State’s visit to Israel last week...

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...

September 2, 2020

BBC WS airs softball interview with representative of Hamas-run body

As documented in a previous post, listeners to the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ ...