War of Independence

March 1, 2019

Weekend long read

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

January 1, 2019

Mapping changes in BBC reporting of Palestinian demand for ‘right of return’

In early April BBC audiences began to see a new editorial policy in reporting on the Palestinian dem...

December 3, 2018

A story BBC audiences are unlikely to be told

A 22 year legal case comes to an end....

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...

August 12, 2018

BBC’s serial omission hinders understanding of history programme

The BBC's country profile of Jordan excludes its belligerent invasion of land beyond its western bor...

July 29, 2018

Serialised propaganda, omission and inaccuracy on BBC R4’s ‘Book of the Week’

A serialised dramatisation of a book on Radio 4 gives a different account of an event than described...

May 29, 2018

The BBC’s double helping ‘Nakba’ backgrounder

A BBC backgrounder gives audiences two one-sided accounts of how Palestinians became refugees....

May 25, 2018

Weekend long read

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

May 21, 2018

BBC WS radio’s ‘Newshour’ and the split screen – part four

BBC WS listeners told that Palestinians "were forced from their land and homes as Israel was establi...

May 14, 2018

Inaccuracy and omission from ‘parachuted’ BBC Radio 4 presenter in Jerusalem

The BBC reschedules Israel's independence. ...