Wilayat Sinai

May 29, 2016

Inaccuracies in BBC backgrounder on Sinai terrorists

An article by Kevin Connolly published on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on May 20th ...

March 30, 2016

BBC’s Knell amplifies Hamas PR while sidestepping ISIS-Hamas collaboration

For nearly two and a half years the BBC has managed to avoid producing any serious reporting on the ...

March 25, 2016

Weekend long read

Despite the sadly ever-increasing topicality of the subject of ISIS terrorism in Europe, the BBC has...

March 4, 2016

Years of BBC amplifications of Hamas denials unravel

Writing about Egypt’s closure of the Rafah crossing in August 2013, the BBC’s Yolande Kn...

December 18, 2015

Weekend long read

This week’s long read focuses on recent Middle East related stories which did not appear on BB...

December 11, 2015

Where do ISIS related indictments make BBC news – and where not?

On December 8th the BBC News website reported that four residents of Luton, UK, had been charged wit...

August 23, 2015

BBC’s Sinai Hamas kidnapping story tells a partial tale

On August 20th BBC correspondents in the Middle East tweeted the following news: As was stated in th...

July 6, 2015

BBC censors ‘Jewish’ from IS affiliate’s claim of missile attacks

Despite its defined purpose of building “understanding of international issues”, the BBC...