Yolande Knell

January 8, 2021

REVIEWING BBC NEWS WEBSITE COVERAGE OF PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS IN 2020

Our monthly summaries of BBC News website coverage of Israel and the Palestinians (see ‘related ...

January 3, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – DECEMBER 2020

Throughout the month of December 2020, twenty-eight written or filmed reports relating to Israel and...

December 22, 2020

BBC ‘fake health advice’ fact checking comes to a halt in Bethlehem

Nearly four years ago the Guardian reported that: “The BBC is to assemble a team to fact check a...

December 16, 2020

BBC’s Yolande Knell ditches critical journalism to promote EU and NGO campaigns

The Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II) signed by th...

December 13, 2020

The BBC Jerusalem bureau’s unsatisfactory ticking of the impartiality box

On December 7th the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page featured a short report by the Jerus...

November 30, 2020

BBC WS radio Gaza Strip reports demonstrate impartiality failings

Previously we discussed a recent written BBC article concerning the surge in Coronavirus cases in th...

November 23, 2020

BBC Radio 4 coverage of US Secretary of State visit – part one

When the Foreign Minister of Bahrain and his accompanying delegation arrived in Israel on November 1...

November 11, 2020

The BBC News website’s airbrushed portrait of Saeb Erekat

Shortly after the announcement of his death on November 10th the BBC News website published an artic...

November 8, 2020

Guardian story on evicted Bedouins omits info even Al Jazeera included

An article by the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Oliver Holmes (“Israeli forces leav...

November 8, 2020

BBC reports erase foreign funding of illegal structures in Area C

On the afternoon of November 5th a report appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ pag...