Posts Tagged: BBC Israel
BBC Executive Lies, Blames Fewer Listeners on Inability to Report Freely From Gaza
A recent report in the Guardian reveals that the editor of BBC Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs program, "Today," thinks that its coverage of...
How the Media Distorted the Gaza War
Reporting during wartime may be the ultimate challenge for the media. But the conflict between Israel and Hamas revealed, yet again, the severe limitations of...
BBC Wakes Up to Hamas’s Exaggerations, Warning ‘Caution Needed With Gaza Casualty Figures’
After a month of reporting a one-sided story focused on the "disproportionality" of Israel's response to Hamas rockets in Gaza, while ignoring both the illegal...
Uncovering the Sources of Jeremy Bowen’s BBC Gaza Casualty Figures
Several readers wrote in to bring our attention to the less than impartial Tweets sent by Jeremy Bowen since his arrival in the Gaza Strip...
BBC Promotes Lie that Israel is Targeting Civilians in Gaza (VIDEO)
The BBC News website's main article on the second day of Operation Protective Edge - July 9th - underwent amendment numerous times (available to view here)...
BBC’s Gaza Correspondent Tells Listeners Civilian Kibbutz is ‘Military Outpost’
Last week, listeners to the BBC World Service radio programme 'Outside Source' heard presenter Ros Atkins speaking to the BBC Jerusalem Bureau's Kevin Connolly and the...
‘Impartial’ BBC Reporting of Hamas Propaganda on Cross-border Tunnel
A fine example of how the BBC's 'impartial' presentation of two sides of a story can at times be counter-productive to informing audiences - and...
Remember When the BBC Claimed Iron Dome Didn’t Work?
Readers may remember that around this time last year, the BBC News website published items by Jonathan Marcus and Kevin Connolly that suggested to audiences...
Israel, ‘Human Rights,’ and the BBC
The misappropriation of the term 'human rights' by political campaigners and the self-classification of various often opaquely-funded anti-Israel groups as 'human rights' organisations has not...
The BBC’s Strange Silence on the Israel-PLO Peace Talks
As readers may have noticed, the BBC's interest in the ongoing talks between Israel and the PLO seems to have waned dramatically in recent months....
BBC Mideast Editor Tweet Shows Clear Bias
Dr Eyad Sarraj, who recently died at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem where he had been treated for leukemia, was the founder of the Gaza Community Mental...
Palestinian ‘Human Rights’ Groups are Anything But
The misappropriation of the term 'human rights' by political campaigners, and the self-classification of various, often opaquely-funded anti-Israel groups as 'human rights' organizations, has not...
BBC’s ‘Today’ Program Implies Israel Persecutes Christians
As noted in the comments to a previous post and in numerous e-mails arriving in the BBC Watch inbox, on Friday, November 15, 2013, the...
BBC Whitewashes Christian Persecution
While it is no secret that the so-called mainstream media habitually fails to report on the international phenomenon of Christian persecution, few are aware that...
