Posts Tagged: BBC anti-Israel
Surprise: Head of BBC News Caught Pushing Hamas Narrative in Leaked Zoom Call
When it comes to Israel, the BBC can’t seem to stop generating controversy. As HonestReporting highlighted following last month’s controversy surrounding the airing of a violent anti-IDF chant...
BBC Reporter Uses News Story to Promote Israeli ‘Apartheid’ Lie and Other Falsehoods
To write an entire article relating to the topic of the current war between Israel and Hamas without mentioning even once why it began and...
BBC’s Gaza Documentary Breached Accuracy Guideline, Review Finds
A BBC documentary about children's lives in Gaza narrated by the 13-year-old son of a Hamas official breached its editorial guidelines on accuracy, an internal review by the British public broadcaster said on Monday. The investigation,...
The BBC Is Severely Biased Against Israel: Here Are 10 of the Most Egregious Examples
Yet again the BBC has come under increased scrutiny in the fallout over alternative hip-hop duo Bob Vylan‘s incendiary performance at the Glastonbury Festival. Despite chants...
The BBC Is Promoting Hezbollah’s Narrative in Lebanon — Not the Truth
On April 1, the BBC News website published a report credited to Hugo Bachega in Beirut and Emma Rossiter in London, which currently goes under the headline “Four killed...
BBC Silent as Journalists Urged to ‘Wear Keffiyeh to Work’ for Palestinian ‘Solidarity’ Day
“Wear something red, green, black, or a Palestinian keffiyeh to visibly show solidarity.” That’s the work attire directive from the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the UK’s largest...
The BBC Is Letting an Anti-Israel Journalist Report on Lebanon
Back in July 2016, we discussed two items of BBC content -- audio and written -- which were produced by the Beirut-based BBC journalist Rami...
1,500 Breaches of Editorial Guidelines: BBC Excoriated in Scathing Report on Israel-Hamas War Coverage
On December 6,2023, HonestReporting highlighted significant issues with the BBC’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, nearly three months after the October 7 Hamas massacre. After multiple...
Why Does the Media Not Tell the Truth About Hezbollah’s Attacks on Israel?
Last month, the BBC News website published a report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Lucy Williamson under the headline "Fires in northern Israel fuel demands...
The Laughable Excuses Given by the BBC & CNN for Israel Capital City Mistake
There’s chutzpah, and then there’s the BBC’s explanation for why it should be allowed to incorrectly describe Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital -- an explanation...
UK News Outlets Distort International Court Ruling to Demonize Israel
A May 25 article in the Financial Times on an emergency ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as part of South Africa’s case...
5 Major Media Misquotes That Hurt Israel’s Image During the War
There is a meme (a humorous image generally posted on social media) that has been widely shared online for years. It depicts a black-and-white image of...
Can the BBC Ever Be Trusted Again After Israel-Hamas War?
In summarizing its mission as the publicly-funded broadcaster in the United Kingdom, the BBC states it must “provide impartial news and information to help people...
BBC News Promotes False and Defamatory Lies About ‘Genocide’ and ‘War Crimes’ in Gaza
As previously noted here, on November 2, the BBC News website published a filmed report titled ‘"Israel-Gaza war: Three reasons Egypt tightly controls the Rafah...
