Posts Tagged: BBC Israel
Texas Synagogue Attack Was Motivated by Antisemitism — But Not for the New York Times and BBC
Is it anti-Jewish to take hostages at a synagogue, with the goal of getting a notoriously antisemitic terrorist released from prison? For The New York...
Outrage as BBC Demands Jewish Victims of Baseless Slur Reveal Identities
For more than a month, the BBC has refused to retract and apologize to Jewish teenagers who were victims of an antisemitic assault in central...
The BBC Proves That It’s ‘News You Can’t Trust’
Anyone visiting the BBC News website cannot fail to notice that Britain’s publicly-funded broadcaster likes to present itself as providing “news you can trust." However, the...
BBC Falsely Insinuates That Child Victims of Antisemitic Attack Spread ‘Anti-Muslim Slur’
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is at the center of another controversy, with claims that its website wrongly insinuated that Jewish children who were the...
BBC Presenter Tweeted ‘Death to Zionist Scum,’ Accused Israel of Perpetrating Nazi-like Genocide
It’s happened again. Earlier this year, HonestReporting helped expose Tala Halawa — a BBC journalist who had made antisemitic and genocidal statements on social media. After...
Amid Antisemitism Controversy, BBC Calls Alfred Dreyfus a ‘Notorious Jewish Spy’
The BBC’s relationship with the UK Jewish community seems to have become increasingly strained this year. Earlier this month, many Jews were appalled by a...
Innocuous News Report on Syria Used to Attack Israel
Last week, the BBC News website published a short report headlined “Prisoner exchange after Israeli woman enters Syria” on its "Middle East" page: Israel and Syria...
BBC Peddles Palestinian Lies on COVID Vaccine Instead of News
The news, on February 10, that Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service had vaccinated some Palestinian workers against coronavirus appeared to have prompted an item...
The BBC Reports on Less Than 5% of Terror Attacks in Israel
The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during October 2020 shows that throughout the month, a total of 124 incidents took place: 82 in...
Reviewing the BBC’s Coverage of the Israel-Sudan Agreement
BBC coverage of the October 23rd announcement of the agreement to normalize relations between Israel and Sudan included a written report titled “Sudan-Israel relations agreed,...
The BBC’s False Promise of an Israeli Perspective
In part one of this post, we discussed an interview with the Palestinian Authority’s representative in the UK, Husam Zomlot, which was aired on BBC...
‘Balanced’ Coverage of Judea and Samaria? Hardly.
Between mid-May and the end of June, the BBC devoted considerable efforts to the preemptive framing of an event it managed to convince audiences --...
Why Media Outlets Must Adopt the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
Over the years, the BBC has repeatedly demonstrated that it has neither the authority nor the expertise -- let alone the remit -- to define...
BBC Imagery Implies Israeli Airstrikes Target Children
Unidentified aircraft, widely believed to be Israeli, recently carried out overnight airstrikes on targets belonging to Iran-backed militias near Syria’s border with Iraq. The BBC‘s report...
