Tim Franks

August 6, 2021

Reviewing impartiality in BBC coverage of the Sheikh Jarrah case – part two

In part one of this post we discussed the BBC’s use of partisan terminology and its predominant am...

June 28, 2021

Who is BBC World Service radio’s ‘human rights activist’?

As we all too often have cause to note on these pages, BBC coverage of internal Palestinian affairs ...

June 24, 2021

BBC WS radio promotes inaccurate portrayal of Jerusalem Day

As we saw in a previous post, on June 15th BBC Radio 4 promoted an inaccurate explanation of the ann...

May 23, 2021

The BBC, child fatalities and shortfall Palestinian rockets

Long-time readers will be only too familiar with the BBC’s well-established record of failing to a...

April 8, 2021

BBC WS radio fails to challenge activist filmmaker’s disinformation

The last seven minutes and forty seconds of the March 26th afternoon edition of the BBC World Servic...

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...

March 10, 2021

The BBC’s ‘damned if you do’ reporting on vaccinations for Palestinian workers

On February 11th visitors to the BBC News website saw a short report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s...

March 8, 2021

Omission in BBC reporting on ICC investigation announcement

Recent BBC coverage of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announcement of the commencement of an...

February 1, 2021

Jerusalem: where BBC and PLO approaches meet

The final item in the January 25th evening edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsh...

December 15, 2020

BBC WS Arab affairs editor misleads on Sudan and Morocco

The December 10th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included an item (...