Yolande Knell

July 4, 2021

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

Throughout the month of June 2021, forty-four written or filmed reports (one of which was removed) r...

June 24, 2021

BBC WS radio promotes inaccurate portrayal of Jerusalem Day

As we saw in a previous post, on June 15th BBC Radio 4 promoted an inaccurate explanation of the ann...

June 14, 2021

BBC News’ Yolande Knell on reconstruction ‘dilemma’ in the Gaza Strip

Late last month we raised the topic of the BBC’s avoidance of reporting on Hamas’ misappropriati...

June 3, 2021

Examining early BBC Radio 4 framing of the May 10 hostilities – part one

Previously we looked at points arising from the first hours of BBC Radio 4 coverage of the May 10th ...

May 20, 2021

BBC’s Yolande Knell promotes speculation on Yaffo incident

Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘PM’ programme on May 15th heard a report (from 16:32 here) from th...

May 12, 2021

BBC’s Doucet and Knell frame Jerusalem events for worldwide listeners

An item aired in the afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ on Ma...

May 10, 2021

BBC News report on Jerusalem violence promotes a partial narrative

Early on the morning of May 8th (Israel time) a report headlined “Al-Aqsa mosque: Dozens hurt in J...

April 12, 2021

Simplistic BBC reporting on renewal of US funding to Palestinians

A report published on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on April 7th under the headlin...

March 25, 2021

Reviewing BBC coverage of Israel’s election day

In comparison with previous Israeli elections in 2013, 2015, April 2019, September 2019 and 2020, BB...

March 4, 2021

An overview of BBC promotion of the anti-Israel vaccines campaign

Throughout January and February 2021, the BBC engaged in multi-platform promotion of an opportunisti...