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September 22, 2020

Reviewing BBC Radio 4’s framing of the Abraham Accords

Previously we looked at BBC World Service radio’s insertion of the topic of human rights in Bahrai...

September 11, 2020

BBC refuses to correct erroneous Oslo Accords claims

Last month we documented inaccurate claims made by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell during...

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 7, 2020

Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part two

In part one of this post we discussed an interview with the Palestinian Authority’s representative...

July 6, 2020

Reviewing BBC R4 Today’s idea of ‘balanced’ coverage – part one

Between mid-May and the end of June the BBC devoted considerable efforts to the preemptive framing o...

July 2, 2020

BBC Radio 4 listeners told Israel ‘officially’ rejects the two-state solution

Since mid-May the BBC has devoted much energy, air-time and column space to the preemptive framing o...

June 28, 2020

BBC Jerusalem correspondent again misleads on the Oslo Accords

Three and a half years ago the BBC adopted the PLO’s interpretation of the term ‘two-state solut...

May 14, 2020

BBC’s Bateman boosts bathroom baloney

In addition to his May 12th written report about phone tracking to identify contact with Covid-19 ca...

April 13, 2020

BBC R4’s Today omits context to revisited story

Nearly four years ago, in May 2016, the BBC produced two reports about a project to clear landmines ...