Sebastian Usher

August 7, 2025

How the BBC joined the Gaza starvation campaign

In a recent article at the JISS, Major (res) Avi Tal wrote about ‘The Gaza “Starvation” Campai...

July 23, 2025

BBC News website coverage of events in Syria

Just over three weeks after the December 2024 overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, the BBC News w...

July 1, 2025

What was the focus of BBC reporting on the Gaza Strip in June 2025?

In early June we documented the BBC’s extensive reporting of a story that had not actually happene...

June 19, 2025

More BBC promotion of Hamas aid claims and messaging

On June 17th the BBC News website published a report by Sebastian Usher and Rushdi Abualouf titled �...

June 15, 2025

Initial BBC News website coverage of events in Iran and Israel

On the morning of June 13th the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page had little to offer its ...

June 13, 2025

BBC can’t verify a Hamas tunnel visited by international journalists

Previously we discussed BBC coverage of the May 13th strikes adjacent to – rather than ‘on’ �...

June 12, 2025

Looking behind the titles of two BBC sources in the Gaza Strip

On June 3rd the BBC News website published a report by Tom Bennett titled “At least 27 Palestinian...

June 3, 2025

BBC promotion of the Rafah incident that wasn’t

Early on the morning of June 1st the BBC News website published a report headlined “At least 15 ki...

May 6, 2025

New PLO vice-chair gets just one sentence of BBC coverage

On the evening of April 27th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Qatar claims sligh...

February 27, 2025

Why doesn’t the BBC tell the story behind its ‘permanent ceasefire’ framing?

In recent weeks visitors to the BBC News website have seen repeated promotion of the notion of a “...