The Fifth Floor

August 11, 2021

BBC adoption of the Hamas narrative on the May conflict

Even before Hamas fired seven missiles at Israel’s capital city at 6 p.m. on May 10th triggering ...

March 6, 2019

In which BBC World Service listeners hear that barbecue is ‘Palestinian food’

A tour of Ramallah from BBC Monitoring. ...

September 13, 2018

BBC WS airbrushes terror out of a story about Palestinian prisoners

Listeners to 'The Fifth Floor' hear politicised "human stories that deserve to be heard" from BBC Mo...

July 11, 2017

BBC WS radio promotes a problematic report yet again

The BBC World Service re-promotes a problematic report. ...

June 5, 2017

BBC WS tells a context-free tale of Egypt’s Six Day War ‘naksa’

BBC World Service radio tells listeners dubious tales in a context free item on the Egyptian Six Day...

June 30, 2015

BBC Monitoring coverage of Ramadan soaps – the sequel

As was noted here last week, BBC Monitoring recently produced a written report for the BBC News webs...

January 12, 2015

BBC WS ‘The Fifth Floor’ highlights cartoonist known for antisemitic imagery

The day after the French president described the terror attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris in...

October 28, 2014

Keeping the (context free) Gaza fires burning on BBC World Service radio

The October 24th and 25th editions of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘The Fifth Floor&#...

February 23, 2014

BBC’s Alkashif slips gratuitous Israel mentions into Gaza Greek god story

On February 21st an article titled “The Apollo of Gaza: One fisherman’s amazing catch...

September 17, 2013

BBC WS ‘Fifth Floor’ version of the 1993 Rabin-Arafat handshake

On September 14th the BBC World Service’s Twitter account came up with the following question ...