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...
View ArticleBBC 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’...
View ArticleInaccuracies 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...
View ArticleBBC 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...
View ArticleBBC 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...
View ArticleBBC 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...
View ArticleProtest 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...
View ArticleBBC 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...
View ArticleBBC’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...
View ArticleWhere’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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleDifferences 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...
View ArticleBBC 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....
View ArticleBBC 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBBC 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...
View ArticleRevisiting 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...
View ArticleReviewing 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...
View ArticleRevisiting 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...
View ArticleBBC 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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