Sarah Leah Whitson

May 23, 2024

Omissions in BBC News website coverage of ICC announcement

Content published on the BBC News website after the May 20th announcement by the ICC chief prosecuto...

February 20, 2024

BBC’s Davies and Adams promote Sinai speculations

On the evening of Friday February 16th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Israel G...

July 24, 2022

BBC fails to identify the organisers of a highlighted campaign

As regular readers are no doubt aware, the BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartiality include a se...

June 17, 2022

BBC framing of US president’s upcoming ME visit

On the evening of June 14th BBC audiences were presented with reports about the announcement of a vi...

May 31, 2022

BBC Radio 4 news does PR for lawfare

Previously we looked at the BBC News website’s amplification of the unsurprising results of an ‘...

March 8, 2022

Guardian finds that three Israel haters hate Israel. Calls it news.

Even by Guardian standards, Chris McGreal – as we’ve consistently demonsrated – is...

July 10, 2017

London medical journal again levels false accusations against Israel.

The Lancet has demonstrated over the course of many years that it has little interest in exploring t...

September 27, 2015

More uncritical amplification of a HRW report from BBC News

On September 22nd an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the tit...

April 15, 2015

UK Media Watch prompts correction to Human Rights Watch photo illustrating child labor report

Earlier today, we posted about a correction prompted by our office to a misleading photo used by The...

April 15, 2015

UK Media Watch prompts Telegraph correction to misleading photo illustrating HRW child labor report

Yesterday, we posted about a story in The Telegraph on April 13th based on a new 74-page report b...