Posts Tagged: BBC Watch

Media Fails to Report the Arrest of Bahrain Palestinian Workshop Participant
While BBC coverage of last week’s economic workshop in Bahrain made much of the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s boycott of the event, audiences were not informed...

The BBC Fails to Address Airbnb’s Anti-Israel Hypocrisy
Despite having already published a report on exactly the same story late the previous evening, on the morning of November 20 the BBC News website...

BBC Tries to Erase Hamas’ Role in ‘Great Return March’ Violence
On August 28, a filmed report titled “Bullet shatters Palestinian cyclist’s Asian Games dream” was posted on the BBC News website’s "Middle East" page. According...

Watchdog Blasts BBC’s Persian Website for Falsely Claiming Elie Wiesel Accused Israel of Genocide in Gaza
A BBC watchdog group called out the news outlets Persian-language website on Thursday for attributing a false anti-Israel claim to recently deceased Holocaust survivor and Nobel...

Media Watchdog Hones in on BBC’s Israel Bias Ahead of Charter Review
JNS.org - Ahead of an upcoming United Kingdom governmental review of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) charter, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America...

The BBC Explains Why It Cannot Report Israeli History Truthfully
Readers no doubt recall the audio report from BBC Jerusalem Bureau staffer Kevin Connolly, which -- despite including inaccurate portrayals of both Israeli and British history -- was broadcast...

Watchdog Blasts BBC Coverage of Jerusalem Stabbing Spree, Forces Corrections
A media watchdog group slammed the BBC for its reportage of Saturday night’s bloody terror attack in Jerusalem, in which a knife-wielding Palestinian killed two Israelis...

BBC Conveniently Fails to Report on Rocket Attack From Gaza Strip
With the BBC having sent at least two of its Jerusalem Bureau staff to cover the story of migrants and refugees trying to cross the...

BBC’s Bowen Tries to Persuade TV Audiences That Hamas Does Not Use Human Shields (VIDEO)
BBC editorial guidelines on "Reporting Death, Suffering and Distress" state: "We must always balance the public interest in full and accurate reporting against the need to...

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...
BBC Trending Invents New Israeli ‘Law’ on the Holocaust
A sensationalist article that appeared in the Features & Analysis section of the BBC News website's Middle East page under the title "Too young for...

‘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...