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Myths and lethal narratives on the BBC website
As we all know, nothing disappears from the internet – for better or for worse. That fact raises questions about the responsibility of the BBC to ensure that archive material accessible via its website...
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Revisiting a BBC story about charcoal
Back in October 2007 the BBC’s Martin Asser – then stationed in the Middle East – wrote an article entitled “Palestinians struggle in dire straits” (still available, of course, online), a significant...
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BBC describes known terror finance man as ‘activist’
On August 20th 2013, at 09:26 GMT, the BBC News website published an article titled “Palestinian killed in Israeli raid in West Bank” on its Middle East page. The backbone of the BBC report appears to...
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BBC misleads again on Gaza’s coastal waters and airspace
On September 17th the BBC News website published an article on its Middle East page entitled “Palestinian killed during Israeli raid in West Bank“. Early versions of the article addressed the subject...
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Over 42% of BBC report on murdered Israeli soldier devoted to Israeli...
On the morning of November 13th nineteen year-old Israeli soldier Pvt. Eden Attias from Upper Nazareth, who joined the army just a few weeks ago, was travelling on a public bus to his base when he fell...
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BBC double standards on the term counter-terrorism
Late on the evening of December 18th the Middle East page of the BBC News website promoted an article under the headline “Palestinian dies in Israeli raid”, with the sub-header reading: “A Palestinian...
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Hamas in Jenin: pictures the BBC will not show
On December 18th 2013 the BBC News website published an article pertaining to a counter-terrorism operation in Jenin during which Nafe a-Sa’adi was killed when Israeli soldiers trying to make an arrest...
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BBC downplays Palestinian terrorism in Jenin incident report
“Palestinians killed in Israeli raid” was the lead headline on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on the morning of March 22nd 2014. The sub-header also omitted any mention of what those...
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PA glorification of terrorism once again ignored by the BBC
In late May the BBC’s Middle East editor wrote an article summing up the US president’s visit to Israel in which he told BBC audiences that: “One pointer to a potential difference with Israel’s Prime...
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BBC News continues to entrench a narrative by means of omission
As was noted here previously, in BBC News website coverage of the murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach in a terror attack near Havat Gilad on January 9th audiences were twice told that “Palestinian militant...
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BBC R4 airs partisan portrayal of Jenin masked as ‘entertainment’
h/t BF BBC Radio 4’s entertainment programme ‘Loose Ends’ aired an edition on February 3rd which included a conversation (from 21:05 here) with a guest described by co-presenter Nikki Bedi as “comedian...
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More context free portrayal of Jenin on BBC Radio 4
On March 15th BBC Radio 4 aired an edition of a “contemporary art” programme called ‘The Art of Now‘ titled ‘Dangerous Places’. As can be seen in the synopsis, all but one of the stories showcased in...
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No BBC reporting on terror attacks by PA employees
On May 20th the Israel Security Agency announced that it had solved a series of shooting attacks that were carried out in the Ramallah district. As the Times of Israel reported: “Israel has accused...
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