Tom Bateman

June 6, 2024

BBC framing of Hamas reactions to the US ceasefire proposal

Since May 31st the BBC News website has published several reports relating to the topic of the speec...

May 16, 2024

BBC News sidelines Hamas attacks on humanitarian aid crossing

As previously discussed here, on May 5th the BBC News website published a report about a fatal Hama...

April 14, 2024

Ros Atkins and BBC Verify jump the shark

On the morning of April 13th a filmed report titled “Ros Atkins on… UK arms exports to Israe...

March 31, 2024

An overview of BBC News website promotion of an IPC report

On March 18th the BBC News website published an article promoting a report published on the same day...

March 28, 2024

BBC framing of a story that has yet to happen

On February 9th Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office put out a statement: “It is impossible to ach...

March 12, 2024

BBC News yet again avoids telling all about ‘Palestine Action’

On the evening of March 8th a short report was published on the BBC News website’s ‘Cambridgeshi...

December 31, 2023

2021 contributor reappears in BBC News ‘girl in the rubble’ report

On December 29th the BBC News website published a filmed report on its ‘Middle East’ and ‘vide...

September 14, 2023

Omissions and distortions of history in BBC report on Palestinian demands

Early on September 7th (Israel time) a report by Tom Bateman appeared on the BBC News website’s â€...

September 11, 2023

Israeli moshav becomes a ‘settlement’ in BBC radio reports

The BBC’s Jerusalem bureau has to date displayed little, if any, interest in the topic of the repe...

September 7, 2023

BBC’s Bateman again promotes NGO talking points on ‘use of force’

September 2nd saw the appearance of a report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman on the BBC ...