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November 2, 2023

Omissions in BBC reporting on foreign nationals in the Gaza Strip

For years the BBC has been using terms such as “siege” and “open-air prison” to describe the...

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 �...

May 17, 2023

BBC’s Bateman promotes Abu Akleh anniversary publicity

From the moment on May 11th 2022 when the news broke that Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh h...

February 17, 2023

Weekend long read

1) The ITIC analyses the recent counter-terrorism operation against a Hamas cell in Jericho. “The ...

February 10, 2023

Weekend long read

1) NGO Monitor discusses ‘Human Rights Watch’ and antisemitism. “In 2003, Human Rights Watch (...

February 6, 2023

BBC framing continues to blur understanding of terror

Previously we discussed three articles written by some of the journalists tasked with making sure th...

February 3, 2023

BBC reports on Blinken visit promote a facile narrative

This week the BBC News website published two reports by Raffi Berg relating to a visit to the Middle...

November 16, 2022

BBC News leads with Israeli reaction to a story not yet told

Listeners to BBC World Service radio early on the morning of November 15th heard the following opaqu...

October 25, 2022

BBC News silent on Palestinian faction leaders’ recent trips

In February 2012 the BBC News website reported that “Hamas political leaders leave Syria for Egypt...

September 8, 2022

Predictable BBC reporting on IDF Abu Akleh investigation results

From the moment on May 11th when the news broke that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh had bee...