Settlers

May 20, 2026

The Trope of Perpetual Reactivity – The BBC Flattens Reality in Bethlehem

The BBC’s Wyre Davies’ recent reporting from the West Bank epitomises the main issues with BBC c...

July 24, 2025

BBC News promotes unsourced, unevidenced arson claim

A report by David Gritten which was published on the BBC News website on July 12th includes the foll...

January 6, 2025

What does the BBC’s ‘best analysis and expertise’ tell audiences?

On January 1st the BBC News website published an article by the corporation’s security corresponde...

April 26, 2022

When the BBC has no qualms about adoption of ‘other people’s language as our own’

The BBC’s editorial guidelines on ‘War, Terror and Emergencies’ include a section titled ‘Us...

July 6, 2014

Times of London leads the pack with worst headline on murdered Palestinian

The UK media continues to churn out stories about the brutal murder of Mohamed Abu Khdeir, the Pale...

January 5, 2014

Guardian: Non-Jewish Israelis who live in settlements should not be called ‘settlers’

The Guardian considers all Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (The West Bank) and eastern Jeru...

May 20, 2013

Harriet Sherwood gets it right about settlers and violence

We’ve recently been noticing a slight improvement in the quality of reporting by the Guardian&...

September 1, 2010

One Mean Jewish Settler

This is cross-posted by West Bank to West End. (I wasn’t going to post this today, but in ligh...