Posts Tagged: BBC Israel
BBC News Kicks Israel in the Face
Of the 120 Knesset members that the BBC could have interviewed for an Israeli point of view on Ahed Tamimi’s trial, reporter Jeremy Bowen chose a disgraced,...
BBC Follows Blind British Backpacker as He Visits Israel’s Western Wall
Cameras from a BBC travel series followed a blind British backpacker who is on a mission to travel the world as he visited various sites in...
Gaza Electricity Crisis Highlights BBC’s Anti-Israel Bias
When some residents of the Gaza Strip took to the streets last winter to protest their inadequate electricity supply, the BBC website produced two written reports on...
BBC Ignores French President’s Comparisons Between Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism
At the July 16th event in Paris marking the 75th anniversary of the deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz, the French president made a significant statement: French president Emmanuel Macron...
BBC’s ‘Man in the Middle East’ Spouts Tired Jerusalem Lies
On May 18, listeners of BBC Radio 4 heard the fourth part in Jeremy Bowen’s series of programs entitled, "Our Man in the Middle East." "Jerusalem," the latest episode,...
Reviewing a BBC News ‘Six-Day War’ Backgrounder
Fifty years ago, the build-up of events that led to the Six-Day War had already begun. After 14 Palestinian terror attacks had been carried out with Syrian support since April...
BBC’s Mideast Editor Suggests Syria Chemical Attack Tied to Israel
The day after a chemical weapons attack in Syria that shocked the world, a BBC official charged with making news from the Middle East “more comprehensive or comprehensible for...
BBC Bashes Friedman, But Can’t Even Get His Name Right
On the evening of March 23, BBC News was able to tell its international audiences that the newly confirmed US ambassador to Israel was “controversial,” “right-wing,” “pro-settlement,”...
On Terror Attacks, the BBC Has Different Headlines for Different Audiences
Although it failed to accurately describe an October 9 attack in Jerusalem as terrorism, the BBC did make it clear to its English-language audiences that the perpetrator...
The BBC’s Long Delayed — and Seriously Flawed — Coverage of Palestinian Elections
On September 8, the BBC News website produced its first article dedicated to the topic of the municipal elections that were supposed to have taken place...
More Media Double Standards on Television
Further examples of the double standard evident in the BBC’s use of the term "terrorism" were recently supplied by a series of programs broadcast on...
BBC Finally Reports on Palestinian Rocket Attacks, But Still Distorts Story
More than 24 hours after the incident took place -- and a day after colleagues at BBC Arabic published two articles on the story (and following the appearance of this...
Once Again, Palestinian Terror Is of No Concern to the BBC
Despite at least one BBC News producer being aware of the incident, the corporation chose not to report a narrowly averted terror attack against travelers on the Jerusalem light...
BBC Whitewashes Terror in Re-run of Palestinian Teacher Story
When the BBC reported back in March on a prize-winning Palestinian teacher, it managed to omit some relevant information from the story. Over four months later, the...
