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May 24, 2024

Revisiting the editorial policy behind BBC portrayal of Israel’s capital city

Last month the BBC’s Mark Urban announced that he would be leaving the ‘Newsnight’ team after ...

September 29, 2023

BBC WS radio’s ‘The History Hour’ recycles 2017 inaccuracy

Previously we looked at five editions of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Witness History’...

July 25, 2022

The FCDO, the BBC and Israel’s capital

Writing at the Spectator, Stephen Daisley discusses the UK’s failure to recognise Jerusalem as Isr...

September 16, 2020

REVIEWING BBC MIDDLE EAST EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS – PART TWO

Previously we looked at a video available at the BBC’s ‘Bitesize’ online study support resourc...

May 8, 2020

BBC WS radio’s pick ‘n’ mix Middle East history

The April 29th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Witness History’ – titled “...

November 4, 2019

BBC WS radio amplifies claim that a country called Palestine “existed”

The BBC World Service recycles a PRI report that tramples history....

April 23, 2019

Examining the rationale behind BBC policy on Israel’s capital

Not only is the BBC’s ‘rationale’ regarding Israel’s capital misguided, it is not even appli...

November 29, 2018

BBC’s Partition Plan omissions still stand

Arab states' rejection of the Partition Plan - and subsequent violence - omitted from the BBC's 'key...

February 9, 2018

How the BBC invented territory ‘allocated’ to a Palestinian state

The BBC's chronic 'misunderstanding' of the Partition Plan once again causes inaccuracy....

December 1, 2017

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading. ...