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Omissions and distortions in the BBC’s ‘country profile’ of Israel
Speaking at Chatham House in May 2010, the BBC’s former Director General Mark Thompson closed his address with the following words: “The BBC’s motto is ‘Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation’ – the idea...
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BBC quotes Holocaust-denying terrorist-run website
One of the BBC’s many post-election articles appearing in the Middle East section of the BBC News website on January 23rd 2013 was an item entitled “Israeli press considers Netanyahu ‘failure’ ” which...
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BBC finally gets round to (briefly) reporting crimes of Palestinian prisoners
As regular readers of BBC Watch well know, we have on too many occasions been obliged to take note of the BBC’s downplaying or ignoring of the crimes committed by Palestinian or Israeli Arab prisoners...
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BBC’s ‘Israeli building threatens peace talks’ meme in numbers
How many times over the last week have readers of the BBC News website been told that Israeli building tenders in Jerusalem and Judea & Samaria threaten to “sabotage” peace talks? On Sunday,...
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BBC backgrounder on peace process erases twenty years of terror
Readers of the BBC News website’s Middle East page may have noted the interesting use there of the word ‘crisis’. At the bottom of that page audiences have for some time now seen the heading “Egypt in...
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BBC coverage of prisoner release amplifies narrative of ‘political prisoners’
The BBC’s coverage of the release of twenty-six convicted Palestinian murderers on the night of October 29th – 30th includes a filmed report by Yolande Knell – broadcast on BBC news programmes – and a...
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BBC Monitoring puffs wind in the sails of professional anti-Israel campaigners
Readers who also visit the ‘Snapshots’ blog run by our colleagues at CAMERA will no doubt be aware of the recent story – as first reported by the Times of Israel on November 13th – concerning the...
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Of camels and humps: the BBC addresses ‘media visual stereotyping’
A couple of recent BBC News website articles relating to the subject of photographed images have the most likely unintended distinction of falling into the category of the old adage “write about what...
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A service announcement for BBC Monitoring
Please excuse us for a moment whilst we issue a service announcement to the BBC department which, according to its own blurb, “observes, understands and explains media throughout the world, providing...
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How does the BBC define ‘pro-Palestinian’?
On January 21st a report titled “Chile bans Palestino football club ‘anti-Israel’ shirt” appeared on both the ‘Latin America & Caribbean’ and ‘Middle East’ pages of the BBC News website. The report...
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BBC’s profile of Ansar Bayt al Maqdis out of date
The BBC News website’s profile of the Sinai-based Salafi Jihadist terrorist group Ansar Bayt al Maqdis – complied by BBC Monitoring – was last updated in January 2014. Since the beginning of April 2014...
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BBC Monitoring amplifies PA outlet’s propaganda
Among the considerable coverage of the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal which has appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page in the past few days was an article dated April 24th which was...
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No translation necessary, but BBC Monitoring embroiders
On May 8th a short item compiled by BBC Monitoring appeared in the ‘Features & Analysis’ section of the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the title “Israel: Testimonies on founding of the...
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BBC’s ‘Echo Chambers’ blog promotes inaccurate information on kidnapped teens
h/t BK The BBC News website blog titled ‘Echo Chambers’ (edited by Anthony Zurcher) purports to present audiences with “a review of the best commentary on and around the world”. Its June 18th edition...
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BBC Monitoring’s news: repetition of an anonymous BTL comment
h/t DM On June 18th BBC Monitoring brought readers of the ‘News From Elsewhere‘ section of the BBC News website the horrific news that some Lebanese football fans are being forced to watch the World...
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On BBC Monitoring’s fantasy ‘ban’ and short skirt syndrome
On June 16th BBC Monitoring informed audiences – in an article titled “Israel: Hitchhiking continues despite kidnap dangers” on its ‘News From Elsewhere’ page on the BBC News website – that the Israeli...
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How the BBC cherry-picked its Jihadist terrorists
In recent days quite a few people have let us know via e-mail or social media that they were surprised to find that a BBC special feature on “Jihadist attacks” during the month of November did not...
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BBC Monitoring amplifies Iranian Charlie Hebdo conspiracy theory
On January 8th the BBC News website published an article titled “Charlie Hebdo attack: World press united in defiance” in which BBC Monitoring presented a round-up of media reactions to the previous...
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BBC Monitoring plays down Saudi concerns over Iranian nuclear programme
As was noted here last week, the BBC’s coverage in the run-up to the Israeli prime minister’s recent address to the US Congress on the subject of the Iranian nuclear programme was remarkable for the...
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BBC Monitoring euphemises terror, whitewashes antisemitism, claims Egyptian...
On June 18th an article appeared in the features section of the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the title “Ramadan: Historical TV dramas break with past in Muslim world“. Written by BBC...
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