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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 24, 2021

BBC’s Bateman goes south in superficial election report

On the morning of March 22nd visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page found the f...

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...

November 24, 2020

BBC Radio 4 coverage of US Secretary of State visit – part two

In part one of this post we discussed a pre-emptive report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande ...

November 23, 2020

BBC Radio 4 coverage of US Secretary of State visit – part one

When the Foreign Minister of Bahrain and his accompanying delegation arrived in Israel on November 1...

November 9, 2020

BBC Radio 4 fails to disclose an interviewee’s ‘particular viewpoints’

The November 7th edition of the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme included a speculative item about ...

October 25, 2020

BBC’s Bateman recycles his olive harvest report for Radio 4

Last week we reviewed a filmed report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman which appeared on ...

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...