Tim Franks

July 30, 2020

Reviewing BBC Jerusalem bureau reporting on the Har Dov incident

Most of the BBC’s reporting on the security incident which took place on the afternoon of July 27t...

July 23, 2020

BBC’s Knell twice amplifies the false claim of a ‘siege’ on the Gaza Strip

On July 20th a filmed report titled “Gaza’s disturbing cases of suicides” – credited to ...

July 8, 2020

BBC radio backtracks on non-starter story it promoted for weeks

Previously we discussed a report by BBC Jerusalem bureau correspondent Yolande Knell which appeared ...

April 23, 2020

BBC WS radio presents a partial portrayal of ‘annexation’

The April 20th evening edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included a di...

March 29, 2020

BBC WS isolates narrative from context in another Gaza Corona report

As we have previously documented (see ‘related articles’ below), in the past couple of weeks the...

February 18, 2020

BBC WS radio jumps on the Gaza comparison bandwagon

'Newshour' chose to highlight one sentence from a six-minute interview....

February 6, 2020

BBC WS radio promotes US peace plan commentary from partisan lobbying group

Newshour listeners were told that the US plan is "an act of geo-political arson"....

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...

December 26, 2019

The BBC’s biased Bethlehem binge continues

Barbara Plett Usher's exploitation of the season of goodwill gets more BBC exposure. ...

December 24, 2019

The BBC returns to an old obsession

The BBC continues to focus on the exception to the rule in Israeli football. ...