Shireen Abu Akleh

January 3, 2025

BBC News breaks silence on events in Jenin

When a female Palestinian journalist was fatally shot in Jenin in May 2022, the BBC News website’s...

August 11, 2023

The limitations of BBC interest in the safety of Palestinian journalists

BBC coverage of the death of the Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin in May 2022 included...

May 17, 2023

BBC’s Bateman promotes Abu Akleh anniversary publicity

From the moment on May 11th 2022 when the news broke that Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh h...

January 13, 2023

The background to one of Newshour’s ‘main stories of 2022’

The December 31st afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included...

December 20, 2022

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is not brave

In her op-ed published at the i newspaper (“Our fear of criticising Israel makes us complicit ...

December 16, 2022

More uncritical BBC promotion of Al Jazeera lawfare

Last month we documented the BBC’s response to a complaint concerning its portrayal of the IDF inv...

December 12, 2022

BBC News again promotes Al Jazeera lawfare

Back in May we documented the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s promotion of Al Jazeera lawfare on Radio 4: N...

November 16, 2022

BBC News leads with Israeli reaction to a story not yet told

Listeners to BBC World Service radio early on the morning of November 15th heard the following opaqu...

November 15, 2022

Guardian’s worst journalist misleads on Shireen Abu Akleh probe

An article by the Guardian’s Chris McGreal reported on news that the US Federal Bureau of Inve...

November 13, 2022

BBC rejects complaint about framing of IDF investigation

Readers may recall that in a report published on the BBC News website on October 1st (discussed here...