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Amendments made to the BBC’s Israel profile
On November 19th the latest amendments were made to the timeline included in the BBC News website’s Israel profile. There are currently two entries for 2018, with the first one reading as follows:...
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BBC’s Partition Plan omissions still stand
As was noted on these pages three years ago, the timeline appearing in the BBC’s online Israel profile fails to inform readers that the 1947 UN Partition Plan recommendation (UNGA Resolution 181) was...
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BBC News website corrects error in Israel profile timeline
As noted here last week, an entry in the BBC News website’s Israel profile timeline that had been added on November 19th inaccurately named the former Israeli defence minister as “Avidgor Lieberman”....
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BBC Monitoring’s Warsaw Summit hashtag ‘research’ gets mixed reception
On February 12th BBC Monitoring put out a Twitter thread about a hashtag relating to the Warsaw Middle East Summit. Interesting use of a photograph which is not related to the Warsaw summit at all but...
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In which BBC World Service listeners hear that barbecue is ‘Palestinian food’
The March 1st edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘The Fifth Floor’ included an item described as follows in its synopsis: “Tala Halawa of BBC Monitoring takes us on a tour of her...
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Reviewing BBC News website pre-election coverage
An overview of the BBC News website’s coverage of the Israeli elections up until the commencement of polling on the morning of Tuesday, April 9th 2019 shows some unsurprising trends. The following...
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BBC News corrects inaccurate ‘Palestinian unity government’ claims
Earlier in the week we noted that BBC Watch had submitted a complaint to the BBC concerning inaccurate portrayals of control of the Gaza Strip in three separate items of content. We have now received...
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Partisan report on detained Palestinian ‘children’ from BBC’s Gender and...
On August 28th the BBC News website published a filmed report by the ‘Gender & Identity correspondent’ for the BBC World Service and BBC World, Megha Mohan. Others involved in the production of the...
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BBC yawns at PA paper’s call for violence at Holocaust commemoration
Ahead of a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp which is to be held at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem later this week with the participation of numerous...
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BBC News reporting on new Lebanese government avoids relevant facts
January 22nd saw the appearance of a filmed report titled “Lebanon protesters angry over new government” on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page. The video’s synopsis reads: “Protesters in Lebanon...
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Examining BBC reports on Corona-related cell phone tracking
On March 17th listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme heard the following report in a news bulletin (from 2:08:05 here): Newsreader: “Israel’s government has approved measures for its security...
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