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BBC contradicts years of its own narrative on Israeli construction
The use of imprecise language in BBC reports has frequently steered audiences towards the inaccurate belief that in recent years new communities have been built in Judea & Samaria and the parts of...
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BBC News promotes more of its unvarying narrative on Israeli construction
On June 20th an article titled “Israel starts work on first new West Bank settlement in 20 years” was published on the BBC News website’s Middle East page. Like the BBC Radio 4 report on the same...
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Political NGOs and dissonance in BBC report on Jerusalem eviction
On September 5th an article titled “Israel evicts Palestinians after East Jerusalem legal battle” appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page, along with a video relating to the same story...
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BBC News airbrushes Fatah praise from report on terror attack
On the evening of January 9th an Israeli man was murdered in a terror attack that took place not far from his home in Havat Gilad. “Rabbi Raziel Shevach, 35, died of his injuries at a Kfar Saba...
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Promoted and quoted: the BBC’s preferred NGO contributors in 2017
As has been the case in previous years (see related articles below), Israel related content produced by the BBC during 2017 frequently included contributions or information sourced from NGOs. BBC...
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Inaccuracy, omission and oddity in a BBC Radio Ulster item on Israel – part two
As we saw in part one of this post, the May 20th edition of the BBC Radio Ulster “religious and ethical news” programme ‘Sunday Sequence‘ included a long item (from 34:04 here and also aired on BBC...
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Promoted and quoted: the BBC’s preferred NGO contributors in 2018
As has been the case in previous years (see related articles below), Israel related content produced by the BBC during 2018 frequently included contributions or information sourced from...
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Political messaging eclipses context in BBC WS Fourth of July report
Listeners to the afternoon edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ on July 4th heard a report from Yolande Knell in which information and context were side lined in favour of...
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Reviewing BBC News website coverage of the US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan
Last week we looked at the impartiality of BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service radio coverage of the US Administration’s ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan. A review of the impartiality of BBC radio coverage of...
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BBC News blindly repeats FT allegations
On February 14th an entry titled “Amazon accused of bias in the West Bank” appeared in the ‘updates’ section of the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page. Readers trying to click on the link in the...
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