Translation

March 4, 2025

BBC Gaza documentary controversy – the timeline

In mid-February 2025 the BBC began promoting a documentary set to be aired on BBC Two, with viewing ...

February 20, 2025

BBC Gaza documentary repeats past mistranslations

On the evening of February 17th, BBC Two aired what it described as a “dramatic documentary” tit...

August 10, 2015

BBC doubles down on its creative translation of ‘Yahud’

Recent weeks have seen two cases in which the BBC chose to inaccurately translate the Arabic word &#...

July 23, 2015

BBC’s Panorama Jerusalem train programme takes viewers on a predictable journey

On July 20th the BBC One current affairs programme ‘Panorama‘ aired an episode titled &#...

July 12, 2015

BBC does know how to translate ‘Yahud’ – when it is said in the UK

Thank you to all the readers who took the trouble to contact us to point out that – in contras...

July 9, 2015

The history – and the BBC Trust decision – behind Lyse Doucet’s mistranslation of ‘yahud’

An article which appeared in the Jewish Chronicle on July 8th has been making waves on social media ...

October 21, 2013

Lost in (unnecessary) BBC translation

Here is a paragraph from a story titled “‘No notification’ of Saudi Arabia snub &#...