Hadar Sela
ARTICLES BY: Hadar Sela
The BBC Uses Coalition Shakeup to Promote Anti-Israel Narrative
A particularly lively and fast-moving week in Israeli politics came to a head last weekend with the resignation of Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon -- but that...
BBC News Passes Up Gaza Strip Weapons Smuggling Story
On May 16, the Israel Security Agency cleared an announcement for publication. The Israeli Navy arrested off the coast of Gaza last month a Hamas-affiliated smuggler who...
In April, BBC Reports Less Than 1% of Terror Attacks in Israel
The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during April 2016, shows that throughout the month, a total of 115 incidents took place: 75 in Judea and Samaria,...
BBC Will Call Jews Terrorists, But Not Palestinians
Just days after it managed to produce coverage of a terror attack on a Jerusalem bus without making use of the word terror, the BBC News...
BBC Says Jerusalem Bus Exploded, Refuses To Call Act ‘Terrorism’
On the afternoon of April 18, an explosion occurred on a public bus in Jerusalem, injuring 21 people. Within a couple of hours, the police and...
NGO Allegations Promoted by BBC News Shown to Be False
Last July, the BBC News website published an article (which later had its inaccurate headline amended) concerning an incident that had taken place near the Qalandiya checkpoint. The vast majority of the...
Comparing the BBC’s Personalization of Paris, Brussels and Israel Terror Victims
Following the terror attacks in Paris in November 2015, various BBC platforms -- including the BBC News website -- produced content paying tribute to the victims of those attacks,...
BBC Obscures the Truth About an Anti-Israel UN Resolution
An article that appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on March 25, under the headline “Israel rejects database of settlement-linked firms,” pertains to...
BBC Continues to Obfuscate Nature of Palestinian Attacks Against Israelis; Avoids Word ‘Terrorism’
On March 8, three terror attacks took place in Israel within the course of a few hours. Earlier in the day, an additional attempted stabbing attack by a...
BBC News Continues to Sideline the Hamas Tunnels Story
The last time the BBC reported -- albeit unsatisfactorily -- on the issue of Hamas’ cross-border attack tunnels, was at the end of January when one of those tunnels...
The BBC Reports Assad’s Propaganda as Fact
The synopsis to a filmed report that -- in addition to being shown on BBC television -- appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on March...
BBC Refuses to Call Hamas a Terrorist Organization
The February 16 edition of the BBC World Service radio history program "Witness" -- presented by Louise Hidalgo -- was titled “The Attempt to Kill Khaled Meshaal,” and...
BBC World Service Erases Israeli Victims From News Reports on Terror Attacks
The BBC News website’s coverage of four separate attacks perpetrated by Palestinians on February 14 was marred by the inclusion of unverified reports, unnecessarily qualified statements, and...
BBC Belatedly Reports Fatal Terror Attack, Ignores Incitement From Abbas, Fatah
On January 25, two terrorists armed with knives and IEDs infiltrated the village of Beit Horon, situated just off Highway 443. According to one account: Two terrorists stabbed...
