Posts Tagged: BBC anti-Israel
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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 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 Helps Spread Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theories About Arafat
On July 21, the BBC News website’s Middle East page included a report titled “Yasser Arafat: French prosecutor seeks end to murder inquiry.“ The article’s...
BBC Peddles Anti-Israel Lies, Helps Whitewash Hamas
The June 17 edition of the BBC World Service radio program ‘Newshour’ – presented by James Coomarasamy – included an item (from 14:00 here) introduced as...
