Yolande Knell

October 3, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – SEPTEMBER 2021

Throughout the month of September 2021, twenty-three written or filmed reports relating to Israel an...

September 17, 2021

Four incidents of Gaza rocket fire get twelve words from BBC News

Late on the evening of September 10th terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at the Eshkol regi...

September 14, 2021

BBC editorial guidelines on contributors’ affiliations ignored yet again

Previously we discussed a September 7th written report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell...

September 9, 2021

BBC again flouts editorial guidelines in interview with ‘activist’

In recent days the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page has published three items of content ...

September 2, 2021

SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – AUGUST 2021

Throughout the month of August 2021, twenty-five written or filmed reports relating to Israel and/or...

August 31, 2021

More superficial BBC reporting on crime in Israeli Arab sector

Earlier this month we discussed multi-platform audio and written reports on the subject of crime in ...

August 15, 2021

BBC’s Knell opts for the easy narrative in reports on Arab crime

In recent days BBC audiences have seen cross-platform promotion of content produced by the Jerusalem...

August 4, 2021

Reviewing impartiality in BBC coverage of the Sheikh Jarrah case – part one

Previously we looked at BBC News website’s August 2nd anticipatory framing of a story which had ye...

August 3, 2021

BBC News pre-emptively recycles partisan framing of Sheikh Jarrah story

Although the BBC News website has been reporting on the long-running dispute concerning property ...

August 1, 2021

BBC News recycles outdated report on Palestinian Corona vaccinations

BBC News coverage of the Israeli government’s decision to offer a third dose of vaccine against Co...