The World Tonight

December 7, 2021

BBC’s Bateman digs up old narratives in Gilboa jailbreak report

Early on the morning of December 6th a twelve-and-a-half-minute filmed report by the BBC Jerusalem b...

October 25, 2021

BBC Radio 4 news bulletin framing of PFLP linked NGO designations

Listeners to the news bulletin read by Alan Smith near the beginning of the October 22nd edition of ...

October 5, 2021

BBC acknowledges inaccuracy three and a half months on but fails to correct

Three and a half months ago we noted that listeners to the June 15th edition of the BBC Radio 4 prog...

September 14, 2021

BBC editorial guidelines on contributors’ affiliations ignored yet again

Previously we discussed a September 7th written report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell...

August 12, 2021

More of the same in BBC reports from Silwan

Readers may recall that in late June, BBC World Service radio aired a completely one-sided and conte...

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 ̵...