The Apartheid Smear

July 7, 2020

Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part two

In part one of this post we discussed an interview with the Palestinian Authority’s representative...

July 6, 2020

Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part one

Between mid-May and the end of June the BBC devoted considerable efforts to the preemptive framing o...

June 29, 2020

Bateman’s ‘annexation’ road trip reveals nothing new to BBC audiences

The BBC’s generous coverage of an event which has not happened (see ‘related articles’ below) ...

June 18, 2020

BBC News misrepresents ‘previous US positions’

On the afternoon of June 16th a report headlined “Israel’s West Bank annexation plan condemn...

February 10, 2020

Reviewing BBC News website coverage of the US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan

Yet again BBC journalists were far more intent on establishing a specific narrative than they were c...

February 5, 2020

BBC radio interviews same PA representative three times in one day

Tim Franks was not perturbed by the dissonance of a representative of an entity which literally pays...

February 2, 2020

BBC Radio 4’s preemptive framing of the ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan

Half a day before the US administration had released its plan, BBC Radio 4 had already framed the to...

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....

January 29, 2020

BBC’s Tom Bateman misleads on the Oslo Accords

Sadly for the BBC’s funding public, all Tom Bateman has to offer is regurgitated PLO talking point...

June 23, 2019

More PLO propaganda and polemic on BBC WS radio – part two

‘Newshour’ listeners heard lies about an ‘apartheid’ system which does not exist....