Tom McArthur

May 1, 2026

Confusing BBC portrayal of Hizballah and the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

Visitors to the BBC News website during the five days between April 13th and April 17th could have b...

April 26, 2026

Framing by omission in another BBC ‘targeting journalists’ report

April 23rd saw the appearance of a report credited to Tom McArthur and Helen Sullivan on the BBC New...

March 20, 2026

BBC reports on attacks in Europe fail to join the dots

On March 9th the BBC News website reported an incident that had taken place in Liege, Belgium earlie...

January 23, 2026

How did the BBC frame Israel’s Somaliland recognition?

On December 26th 2025 the BBC News website published a report on the topic of Israel’s freshly ann...

December 28, 2025

Omission and misinformation in BBC report on terror attack

On the afternoon of December 26th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Two killed in...

August 7, 2025

How the BBC joined the Gaza starvation campaign

In a recent article at the JISS, Major (res) Avi Tal wrote about ‘The Gaza “Starvation” Campai...

August 4, 2025

BBC scraps the word terrorist from headline concerning convicted terrorist

As previously noted, the new BBC editorial guidelines – set to come into effect on September 1...

July 21, 2025

BBC Gaza reporting again promotes unverified Hamas claims and narratives

Below are two social media posts put out by COGAT on July 12th and July 13th. Six days later, on Jul...

July 17, 2024

BBC reports on strike on Hamas leaders ignore the issue of human shields

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on the morning of July 15th found the fo...

July 8, 2024

BBC News framing of a strike on terrorists using human shields

Late on the afternoon of July 6th the BBC News website published a “breaking news story” written...