Terrorism

September 25, 2020

BBC News economical with details in Burgas bombing convictions report

On September 21st the BBC News website published a report headlined “Bulgaria court convicts two o...

September 23, 2020

Financial Times stubbornly sticks to discredited Mid-East dogmas

Last month, Financial Times joined the small list of media outlets (such as the Guardian) and nation...

September 15, 2020

Sky News corrects ‘segregated Israeli bus stop’ claim, but errors remain

A Sky News report (Trump’s UAE-Israel deal has shifted Middle East politics, but the core conf...

September 9, 2020

What has changed in 50 years of BBC reporting on a PFLP hijacking?

Three years ago we looked at a BBC report dating from September 6th 1970 on the Dawson’s Field h...

September 6, 2020

BBC NEWS COVERAGE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL – AUGUST 2020

The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during August 2020 shows that thr...

September 2, 2020

BBC WS airs softball interview with representative of Hamas-run body

As documented in a previous post, listeners to the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ ...

September 1, 2020

Another superficial report on Corona in Gaza from the BBC’s Yolande Knell

Earlier we looked at how reports on the BBC News website and BBC Radio 4 had framed the discovery of...

August 31, 2020

Indy whitewashes Linda Sarsour’s antisemitism

A piece (paywall) in the Independent by Robert Fisk (“What the weaponisation of religion in th...

August 30, 2020

BBC reports on Corona in Gaza include context-free portrayal of blockade

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ have in recent days seen two written reports ...

August 28, 2020

BBC report on fatal stabbing attack sticks to editorial policy on terrorism

Shortly before 9 p.m. on the evening of August 26th the BBC News website published a report concerni...