Zakaria Zubeidi

February 3, 2025

Terror erasure continues in BBC coverage of Palestinian prisoner releases

In the early hours of January 31st (Israel time) the BBC News website published a report headlined �...

September 9, 2024

Terrorism downplayed in BBC report on counter-terrorism operation

On September 6th the BBC News website published a report by Lucy Williamson “in Jenin” and Raffi...

December 7, 2021

BBC’s Bateman digs up old narratives in Gilboa jailbreak report

Early on the morning of December 6th a twelve-and-a-half-minute filmed report by the BBC Jerusalem b...

September 22, 2021

Financial Times claims Zakaria Zubeidi turned to terror to avenge his mother’s death

A Financial Times article (“Recaptured Palestinian prisoners become folk heroes”, Sept. ...

September 13, 2021

BBC’s Bateman avoids the word terror in report on escaped prisoners

The September 6th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ included an item (...

June 21, 2019

Weekend long read

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

May 23, 2019

No BBC reporting on terror attacks by PA employees

BBC audiences have seen no coverage of the arrest and indictment of two Palestinian Authority employ...

July 11, 2012

The murder of an Israeli peace activist in Jenin, and the Guardian ‘Theater of the Absurd’

On June 12th Howard Brenton suggested in a story on the Guardian’s Theatre page (‘Stand...

January 2, 2012

The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood Gets 2012 Off to a Shoddy Start

This is cross posted by Simon Ploskerat HonestReporting The newsprint has barely dried on the back o...