BBC’s Kevin Connolly: Hamas missiles are “antiquated”
If readers would like to hear a compilation of the themes which BBC coverage of Operation ‘Pillar of Cloud’ has been furiously promoting, then the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2 on Monday, November 19th...
View ArticleBBC turns political activists into “aid workers”
A report entitled “Libyans held for ‘sex attack’ on Britons in Benghazi“, dated March 29th 2013, appears on the Africa and Middle East pages of the BBC News website. In that report the women attacked...
View ArticleBBC News promotes Tariq Ali’s lies and disinformation
The BBC’s tail-between-legs response to the public relations campaign (and that, after all, is what it is) by anti-Israel activists which includes criticism of the corporation’s coverage of the...
View ArticleBBC Radio Wales promotes and endorses anti-Israel activist with a penchant...
The ‘Stop the War Coalition’ is just about the last organisation one would approach for rational, impartial, factual and informative comment on anything connected to the Middle East. As has been noted...
View ArticleBBC fails to tell audiences what was really behind Cardiff football match demo
Notable aspects of BBC promotion of its coverage of the September 6th football match between Israel and Wales included the gratuitous use of an image showing a flag belonging to neither of the...
View ArticleNo BBC coverage of antisemitism at event organised by its most promoted NGO
An anti-Israel demonstration which took place in the heart of London on September 9th, ostensibly to protest a two-day visit to the UK by the Israeli prime minister, received no coverage on the BBC...
View ArticleBBC News gives a megaphone to BDS rhetoric yet again
Visitors to the ‘Manchester’ page on the BBC News website on January 22nd found the BBC’s version of a story reported two days earlier by the Jewish Chronicle. The story relates to the cancellation of...
View ArticleBBC takes lessons on ‘impartiality’ from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
As readers may have heard, the BBC has described a former employee’s signature on a letter opposing a cultural boycott of Israel as “inadvisable”. “The BBC has criticised former director of television...
View ArticleAnti-Israel BBC interviewee runs foul of UK bank’s ‘risk appetite’
Last month the Jewish Chronicle reported that a British bank had informed an anti-Israel campaigning group of its decision to terminate services. Anti-Israel rally, London, UK, 17/10/2015 “An...
View ArticleBBC Radio 4 fails to clarify the agenda of the BDS campaign and the PSC
The September 18th edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday‘ included an item (from 11:54 here) described as follows in the synopsis: “Jewish students fight the movement for sanctions against...
View ArticleBBC’s ‘The Big Questions’ brings in pro-BDS NGOs to talk Israel trade
h/t SJ The first discussion topic in the February 12th edition of BBC One’s “moral, ethical and religious” debate programme ‘The Big Questions’ was titled “should we trade with Israel now settlements...
View ArticleWeekend long read
As regular readers are aware, members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign sometimes appear in BBC content (most recently on BBC One just a couple of weeks ago) and in 2014 the PSC was the foreign NGO...
View ArticleBBC News report on PSC and BDS fails to explain either
On March 13th an article headlined “UK pro-Palestinian activist deported from Israel” appeared on the BBC News website’s UK and Middle East pages. The first two paragraphs of the later version of the...
View ArticleBDS campaigner’s falsehoods go unchallenged on BBC World Service
For years we have been documenting on these pages how the BBC has serially failed to provide its audiences with an accurate and impartial portrayal of the aims and agenda of the BDS (Boycott,...
View ArticleWeekend long read
1) The ITIC has published its initial findings concerning the “Identities of the Palestinians killed in the most recent round of escalation”. “Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesman for the ministry of health in...
View ArticleWeekend long read
1) The potential designation of the Muslim Brotherhood – covered by the BBC at the end of last month – is the topic of a discussion held at the FDD available both as a transcript and on video. “As the...
View ArticleBBC’s ‘Newsbeat’ amplifies the BDS campaign yet again
Over the past couple of days we have discussed two items aired on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1 XTRA on May 13th and May 14th – ostensibly as part of ‘Newsbeat’ coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest in...
View ArticleBBC Arabic website promotes antisemitic Holocaust analogy
A demonstration organised by groups including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al Aqsa and the Muslim Association of Britain took place in London earlier this month. As documented by the...
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