Syria

January 18, 2021

Unverified claims and Assad propaganda in BBC News Syria strikes report

On January 13th a report headlined “Syria war: Suspected Israeli strikes on Iran-linked targets &#...

December 29, 2020

Superficial BBC report on Hizballah drug trafficking

Back in July the BBC News website published a report headlined ‘Captagon: Italy seizes €1bn of a...

December 18, 2020

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS Carmit Valensi and Udi Dekel analyse ‘The Struggle for Control of Southern Syria’...

December 17, 2020

Revisiting the BBC’s amplification of Syrian and Russian propaganda

Last month the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Intrigue’ aired a series produced, written and presented b...

November 20, 2020

BBC again waits for Israeli response before reporting Golan incident

Back in August we noted that, not for the first time, an attack across Israel’s border with Syria...

November 13, 2020

Weekend long read

1) At the Atlantic Council, Navvar Saban provides an overview of ‘Iranian influence and presence i...

October 28, 2020

REVIEWING BBC MIDDLE EAST EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS – PART FIVE

Previously (see ‘related articles’ below) we have looked at four videos created by the BBC in 20...

August 5, 2020

BBC News again reports Golan Heights incident after Israel responds

Late on August 2nd a security incident took place in the south Golan Heights. “The Israel Defense ...

July 30, 2020

Reviewing BBC Jerusalem bureau reporting on the Har Dov incident

Most of the BBC’s reporting on the security incident which took place on the afternoon of July 27t...

July 29, 2020

BBC ME editor promotes speculations in border incident news report

A security incident which took place on the afternoon of July 27th at Har Dov in northern Israel was...