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October 17, 2023

Another BBC ‘explanation’ of its refusal to name terrorism

Earlier we discussed John Simpson’s October 11th article defending the BBC’s avoidance of the te...

May 22, 2023

Guardian gets it wrong on Palestinian water consumption

A Guardian article by Bethan McKernan, conspiratorially headlined “A precious resource: how Is...

January 31, 2022

Context issues in BBC report on internal Palestinian affairs

On January 28th a report headlined “Palestinians vent against Hamas in rare online event” appear...

November 9, 2021

BBC’s Bateman gets Gaza water shortage right for a change

The BBC News website’s live page has been dominated by the COP26 UN climate conference in recent d...

October 29, 2021

BBC’s Dead Sea reports fail to tell the whole story

On October 18th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman produced audio (from 45:23 here) and filmed...

October 11, 2021

BBC WS radio’s ‘Newsday’ promotes inaccuracies in a no news story

Listeners to one of the October 7th editions of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsday’ ...

May 21, 2021

Reviewing BBC explanations of power shortages in the Gaza Strip

In recent days BBC audiences have seen repeated references to the power supply in the Gaza Strip. Ma...

January 14, 2021

The BBC’s Oslo Accords disappearing act

Recent BBC reporting on the topic of vaccinations against the Covid-19 virus in Israel has for the m...

August 26, 2020

BBC’s Newshour presents disinformation and lies as ‘context’ to balloon attacks

Earlier this month we noted that the BBC was ignoring the renewal of attacks from the Gaza Strip u...

March 24, 2020

Mapping BBC messaging on Gaza and Corona

As we saw last week, the BBC Jerusalem bureau already briefed audiences on the topic of Coronavirus ...