Posts Tagged: BBC Watch
Remember When the BBC Claimed Iron Dome Didn’t Work?
Readers may remember that around this time last year, the BBC News website published items by Jonathan Marcus and Kevin Connolly that suggested to audiences...
The BBC’s Strange Silence on the Israel-PLO Peace Talks
As readers may have noticed, the BBC's interest in the ongoing talks between Israel and the PLO seems to have waned dramatically in recent months....
BBC Mideast Editor Tweet Shows Clear Bias
Dr Eyad Sarraj, who recently died at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem where he had been treated for leukemia, was the founder of the Gaza Community Mental...
BBC Promotes Hezbollah’s Anti-Israel Propaganda
Late on the night of Tuesday December 3, a senior Hezbollah operative named Hassan Lakkis (also Laqis) was allegedly shot outside his home in Beirut...
BBC’s ‘Today’ Program Implies Israel Persecutes Christians
As noted in the comments to a previous post and in numerous e-mails arriving in the BBC Watch inbox, on Friday, November 15, 2013, the...
BBC Pushes Conspiracy Theory on Arafat’s Death
Here is David Aaronovitch - who knows a thing or two about conspiracy theories - writing in The Times: "It's the late morning, two days ago. And I'm...
The BBC Still Won’t Admit the Truth About Iran
For months now the BBC News website has been making do with a pro-forma statement (or versions of it) in reports on the subject of Iran's...
Letter to a New BBC Middle East Correspondent
Hello, We do not yet know your name or when you will be arriving in Jerusalem but that does not matter. The minute you step off...
BBC Appoints Jon Donnison as ‘Shin Gimmel’ of Masharawi Story
In Hebrew, the expression 'the Shin Gimmel syndrome' is used to describe a situation in which the public blame for an operational failure...
BBC’s Jon Donnison Tweets Unverified Information, Again
Will the BBC's Jon Donnison ever learn? For those not familiar with Twitter, the letters MT at the beginning mean 'modified tweet'. In other words,...
A Ceasefire Has Not Been Enacted on Israel’s Other Battlefield
Tragic images of dead, mutilated and maimed Syrian children have sadly never captivated Western attention as they did this week when Hamas, and allied purveyors...
BBC Jerusalem Bureau Leads the Charge in False Accusations Against Israel of “Targeting Journalists”
Over the past five days since Operation 'Pillar of Cloud' began, the BBC has - perhaps inadvertently - done an excellent job of documenting Hamas'...
Watching the Watchers: The Launch of BBC Watch
Fans of CiF Watch - a blog which monitors the Guardian and its blog 'Comment is Free' for antisemitism and the assault on Israel's legitimacy...
