Six Day War

February 21, 2021

Poetic license: BBC News recycles ten-year-old misinformation

On February 15th a short report by the BBC’s Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher headlined “Mour...

December 15, 2020

BBC WS Arab affairs editor misleads on Sudan and Morocco

The December 10th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included an item (...

November 29, 2020

Channel 4 News makes wildly inaccurate claim about West Bank

A Channel 4 News report (“Mike Pompeo becomes first top US diplomat to visit settlement in Isr...

October 22, 2020

REVIEWING BBC MIDDLE EAST EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS – PART FOUR

Previously (see ‘related articles’ below) we have looked at three videos created by the BBC in 2...

June 30, 2020

Another history-free ‘annexation backgrounder’ from BBC News

Despite the fact that the June 16th written backgrounder titled “Israel, annexation and the West B...

June 22, 2020

Guardian op-ed by Avi Shlaim rails against the ‘injustice’ of Israel’s founding

Anti-Zionist Israeli-British ‘historian’ and activist Avi Shlaim penned an op-ed in the ...

June 21, 2020

Reviewing the BBC’s ‘annexation’ backgrounder – part one

On June 16th the BBC News website published a backgrounder titled “Israel, annexation and the West...

June 8, 2020

Revisiting BBC portrayal of the Khartoum Resolution

As we all too frequently have cause to note on these pages, the BBC’s presentation of Israel-relat...

February 2, 2020

Daily Mail legitimises four Palestinian maps that lie

By presenting the map held by Abbas in the photo, with the caption “maps of historical Palestineâ€...

January 30, 2020

The BBC’s Middle East editor’s framing of the US peace plan

BBC viewers got a superficial 'need to know' account....