Yemen

August 9, 2018

BBC News ignores brewing Red Sea tensions

An attack on Saudi tankers and related Iranian threats have received no BBC coverage....

June 29, 2018

Weekend long read

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

December 1, 2017

Weekend long read

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

July 2, 2017

BBC’s Knell promotes unsupported allegations in Yemenite children story

Yolande Knell's portrayal of the Yemenite children story promotes speculation, lacks context. ...

December 11, 2016

More mapping of BBC inconsistency in terrorism reporting

An internet search for recent BBC reports including the word ‘terror’ produces two resul...

December 2, 2016

Weekend long read

1) As has been noted here before, the BBC is still unsure about Iranian involvement in the conflict ...

October 26, 2016

BBC News still unsure about Iranian involvement in Yemen

In recent weeks the BBC has produced two backgrounders concerning the ongoing war in Yemen. An artic...

March 24, 2016

BBC News and BBC World Service report on airlift of Yemenite Jews

The news that some of the last remaining members of the Jewish community in Yemen had been airlifted...

March 22, 2016

Guardian omits context of antisemitism in report on Israel’s rescue of Yemen’s Jews

A Guardian report, on Israel’s dramatic airlift over the weekend of nineteen of the last 70 o...

July 10, 2015

BBC’s Doucet explains why Yemen gets less coverage than Gaza

Here, for the record, is an interesting Twitter exchange: BBC audiences would no doubt be very inter...