Hadar Sela
ARTICLES BY: Hadar Sela
The BBC Says Only Jews Can Be Terrorists, Not Palestinians
BBC coverage of the ongoing wave of Palestinian terrorism against Israelis has been hallmarked by blanket avoidance of the use of the word terror to...
UK Report on Muslim Brotherhood Shows 2014 BBC Article Was Misleading, Erroneous
On December 17, the UK government published the main findings of an internal review of Muslim Brotherhood activity, which was commissioned by Prime Minister David...
BBC Western Sahara Pieces Betray Double Standards on Disputed Territories
At the beginning of November, the BBC World Service produced two pieces concerning a decades-old conflict involving an invasion, disputed territory, thousands of people living in...
The BBC Completely Ignores Palestinian Terrorism
Since the beginning of December 2015, the BBC News website has published one report on the subject of the ongoing wave of terrorism against Israelis. That December...
The BBC Misleads Readers on Iran’s Nuclear Program
December 2 saw the appearance of an article titled “IAEA: Iran worked on developing nuclear weapons” on the BBC News website’s Middle East page. Readers...
BBC Once Again Distorts Truth About Hamas
A year ago, former AP journalist Matti Friedman wrote an article about Western media coverage of the summer 2014 war between Israel and Hamas: In previous rounds of Gaza...
BBC Happy to Report About ISIS — Unless Target Is Israel
Given the BBC’s longstanding -- but recently intensified -- preoccupation with ISIS, and considering that on October 25, the British media outlet published a report titled “‘Israeli...
Once Again, the BBC Refuses to Report on Palestinian Authority Glorification of Terrorism
As is common knowledge by now, the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell recently produced TV and audio reports from Hebron that -- like the rest of the BBC’s coverage of the ongoing wave of...
BBC Ignores Palestinian Stabbings of Israeli Senior Citizens
On the morning of November 2, a terrorist and an accomplice tried to stab an Israeli soldier at the Jalame (Gilboa) crossing north of Jenin. On that same day, five Palestinians...
The BBC Explains Why It Cannot Report Israeli History Truthfully
Readers no doubt recall the audio report from BBC Jerusalem Bureau staffer Kevin Connolly, which -- despite including inaccurate portrayals of both Israeli and British history -- was broadcast...
BBC Says Israelis’ Fear of Terror Attacks is ‘Paranoia’
During the first three weeks of October 2015, ten Israelis were killed and 112 wounded -- eleven of them seriously -- in 40 stabbing attacks, four shootings, and five...
BBC Promotes Falsehoods About Gaza ‘Blockade’
The August 16 edition of the BBC World Service radio program ‘Newshour’ included a story (available here from 38:32 or here as an abridged clip) about 3D printed stethoscopes developed...
BBC Story on Gaza Withdrawal Whitewashes Palestinian Terrorism
Anyone searching for BBC coverage of the ten-year anniversary of Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip would have been struck by the absence of content...
BBC Documentary Whitewashes Hamas’ Terrorist Summer Camps
Readers may recall that last February we pondered the question “Is a BBC documentary about Hamas’ child soldiers upcoming?” after a Tweet from Lyse Doucet, in...
