The World Tonight

July 11, 2021

BBC Radio 4 misleads with inaccurate portrayals of Israeli citizenship law

The July 6th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘The World Tonight’ included an item (from 16:57 here) i...

June 23, 2021

BBC Radio 4 invents inaccurate definition of Jerusalem Day

Listeners to the June 15th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘The World Tonight’ – presented by Ritul...

June 2, 2021

BBC Radio 4 gives PA envoy unchallenged platform for promotion of lies

After Hamas had fired rockets at Jerusalem on the evening of May 10th – and as attacks continu...

March 25, 2021

Reviewing BBC coverage of Israel’s election day

In comparison with previous Israeli elections in 2013, 2015, April 2019, September 2019 and 2020, BB...

October 7, 2020

BBC portrayal of the upcoming Israel-Lebanon maritime border talks

On October 1st the BBC News website published a report headlined “Lebanon and Israel to hold ̵...

August 19, 2020

Inaccuracies in BBC reporting on the Israel-UAE agreement – part two

As documented here earlier, BBC reporting on the announcement concerning the normalisation of relat...

July 9, 2020

Reviewing the impartiality of BBC radio coverage of potential application of civil law to parts of Area C

The BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartiality state: “Due impartiality usually involves more ...

July 3, 2020

One issue, two complaints and two different BBC responses

One thing that members of the public who fund the BBC – and its complaints procedure – should su...

May 19, 2020

BBC News and BBC Radio 4 mislead audiences with July 1 ‘annexation’ claim

Listeners to the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The World Tonight’ on May 14th heard an item (from 36:51...

March 26, 2020

BBC Radio 4 spreads inaccurate Gaza healthcare canard

The healthcare system in the Gaza Strip has suffered from shortages of medical equipment and supplie...