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BBC promotes selective narrative on PA economy
On March 25th the BBC published an article on the Middle East page of its website entitled “Israel to resume transfer of PA tax revenue“. The word “resume” is defined as meaning “to begin or take up...
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BBC WS ‘Fifth Floor’ version of the 1993 Rabin-Arafat handshake
On September 14th the BBC World Service’s Twitter account came up with the following question for its 64,000 followers: The programme being promoted in that Tweet is the BBC World Service’s ‘The Fifth...
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BBC backgrounder claims Palestinian leadership renounced terror twenty five...
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Principles of the Oslo Accords, a BBC audience member conducting an internet search for information on that subject...
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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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BBC jumps on EU’s water politicisation bandwagon
On the morning of February 13th the BBC News website’s Middle East page looked like this: Later on in the day, an article appeared under the heading “Israeli MPs heckle Schulz speech”. Curiously...
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More BBC misrepresentation of Gaza border restrictions from Wyre Davies
Between the commencement of Operation Protective Edge on July 8th and the beginning of the 72-hour ceasefire on August 5th, Israel transferred 1,856 trucks carrying 40,550 tons of supplies via the...
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BBC WS ‘Witness’ erases Arafat’s terrorism
On September 15th the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Witness’ broadcast an episode titled “Rabin and Arafat Shake Hands” pertaining to the signing of the Oslo Accords in September 1993. Presenter...
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Dumbed down BBC reporting on the Palestinian Unity Government continues
September 25th saw the appearance of an article titled “Hamas and Fatah agree unity government’s return to Gaza” on the BBC News website’s Middle East page. The report opens with the specious...
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Political messaging and inaccuracies in BBC Radio 4’s ‘Terror Through Time’
On December 2nd another edition of the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Terror Through Time’ (presented by Fergal Keane) was broadcast under the title “Death Wish: Battling Suicide Bombers“. The programme’s...
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BBC continues to mislead audiences on issue of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations
Much of the BBC’s reporting on the issue of the recent Palestinian Authority’s unilateral moves at the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court has framed those moves as being a...
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BBC’s Lyse Doucet reports from Rawabi: inaccuracies and omissions
Last week the BBC published and broadcast several versions of a report by Lyse Doucet about the construction project at Rawabi on a variety of platforms. On February 5th the BBC World Service radio...
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BBC WS’s ‘Business Matters’ misrepresents the status of Area C in report on...
Twenty years ago the internationally recognised representatives of the Palestinian people signed an agreement according to which land west of the River Jordan that was originally part of the territory...
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BBC World Service’s Hearing reveals the political foundations of a ‘business’...
The May 20th edition of BBC World Service radio’s ‘Business Matters’ devoted roughly half its content (from 26:39 here) to the topic of “Doing Business In The West Bank” and, in addition to the...
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Multiple breaches of BBC editorial guidelines in BBC WS’s ‘Business Matters’...
In addition to the two parts of the report aired in the May 20th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Business Matters’ which have already been discussed on these pages (see here and...
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BBC’s Knell exploits royal christening for political messaging
Among the articles appearing in the ‘Magazine’ section of the BBC News website as well as in the ‘Features’ section of the site’s Middle East page on July 4th was one written by the BBC Jerusalem...
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Yolande Knell passes up chance to mend previous BBC stereotyping
The August 25th edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘PM’ – presented by Eddie Mair – included an item (from 36:40 here) by Yolande Knell of the BBC’s Jerusalem Bureau. Mair’s introduction includes the...
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BBC prefers pageantry to serious discussion of Abbas’ threats on Oslo accords
As might have been anticipated, the BBC did not skimp on its coverage of the hoisting of the Palestinian flag at the United Nations building in New York. Audiences could choose between a filmed report...
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Absurdity of BBC’s ‘international law’ mantra exposed by Yolande Knell
Nearly nineteen years ago, in January 1997, Israel and the PLO signed an agreement called the “Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron“. That document came about under international tutelage...
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BBC World Service ‘Newshour’: using ‘alleged’ and ‘fact’ for framing
In addition to the filmed report from Hebron shown on BBC television news programmes on October 30th, Yolande Knell also produced a similar audio report which was broadcast on the BBC World Service...
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BBC ‘world view’ of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations laid out by Jeremy Bowen
Using the dramatic heading “The night hope died”, the BBC News website published an article by Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen in the ‘Features’ section of its Middle East page on November 4th which...
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