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BBC ignores significant EU court ruling

Well, I’ve looked and looked and nowhere in the Europe section of the BBC News website can I find it.  Neither is it on the special European Union-dedicated “Inside Europe” page, or on the Middle East...

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BBC trumpets Hizballah narrative of ‘resistance’

“Bitter taste”. That was the curious choice of wording used to headline a May 23rd article about Hizballah by BBC diplomatic/defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus in the ‘Features & Analysis’...

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Inaccuracies and omissions in BBC article on new EU guidelines

A Tweet from Jeremy Bowen on the morning of July 16th gave an inkling of a BBC article to come – and its source: Sure enough, a few hours later an article entitled “Israel condemns EU exclusion rules...

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BBC tweaks Hizballah statement, promotes its conspiracy theories

The website of Hizballah’s Al Manar TV station carries details of a statement put out on July 22nd by the terrorist organisation in response to the EU’s blacklisting of its ‘military wing’. The website...

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BBC report on EU audit of PA – starring Israel

As regular readers will be aware, we have in the past raised here the subject of the BBC’s failure to address the issue of the culture of financial mismanagement and corruption which has long been a...

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BBC misrepresents Israeli PM’s criticism of EU disregard for PA incitement

On January 17th the BBC News website’s Middle East page featured an article titled “Israel berates ‘pro-Palestinian EU‘” which included a filmed report (shown too on BBC television news) that also...

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Protest by Middle East Christians not on the BBC radar

On March 23rd a demonstration took place outside the offices of the EU mission in Ramat Gan, central Israel.  Organized by Israeli Christians, the protest urged the EU to take a more proactive stance...

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BBC News presentation of EU court’s Hamas terror designation decision

December 17th saw the appearance of a report on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the title “EU court takes Hamas off terrorist organisations list“. Readers who proceeded past that somewhat...

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BBC’s report on European Parliament vote on Palestinian statehood misses the...

On December 17th a report appeared in the ‘Features & Analysis’ section of the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the heading “Push for Palestine”. The report came from the BBC News ‘Inside...

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Where’s the BBC follow up?

On December 17th 2014 the BBC News website produced no fewer than six versions of an article titled “EU court takes Hamas off terrorist organisations list”. On January 19th 2015 the Council of the...

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A side to the Gaza reconstruction story the BBC isn’t telling

As readers know only too well, the BBC’s considerable efforts to promote the topic of reconstruction in the Gaza Strip since the end of last summer’s conflict recently reached something of a climax...

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Differences in BBC coverage of migrants in Europe and in Israel

The August 21st edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘World Have Your Say’ included an item (from 34:00 here) in which, prompted by an article from Al Jazeera, participants discussed...

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BBC ignores Abbas’ antisemitic libel in EU parliament speech

On June 23rd the Palestinian Authority president addressed the EU parliament and among his remarks was one in particular which – as is to be expected – made headlines at international media outlets....

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BBC News finds terror (without quotation marks) in Europe

On July 20th the BBC News website’s UK page published an article titled “Record number of EU terror attacks recorded in 2015“. “A record number of terrorist attacks were planned, foiled or carried out...

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The BBC, European ‘fear’ and Israeli ‘paranoia’

Last October we discussed an article by Kevin Connolly – then of the BBC’s Jerusalem bureau – which has since been promoted as ‘related reading’ many times on the BBC News website. “During the first...

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BBC report on EU Hamas terror designation gives incomplete picture

Back in December 2014 the BBC News website produced a report which was misleadingly headlined “EU court takes Hamas off terrorist organisations list”. The following month the Council of the European...

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Revisiting the BBC News website’s PFLP profile

Following the terror attack at the Kehilat Ya’akov Synagogue in the Har Nof neighbourhood of Jerusalem on November 18th 2014, the BBC News website produced a profile of the organisation with which the...

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Reviewing BBC reporting on social media incitement in Europe and Israel

In October 2015 the BBC News website produced a backgrounder which underwent extensive editing during the ten days following its original publication and is currently available online under the...

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Revisiting the BBC’s 2013 PA funding audit story

In December 2013 the BBC News website reported the conclusions of EU auditors in relation to funds transferred to the Palestinian Authority. Audiences were told that: “European auditors say the EU...

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BBC report on ECJ Hamas terror ruling recycles old themes

Just over two and a half years ago the BBC News website published a report with the misleading title “EU court takes Hamas off terrorist organisations list”. That report was noteworthy for its...

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