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BBC promotes ‘Peace Now’ campaign material yet again
For the fourth time in thirty-four days (see here and here) the BBC News website once again promoted the agenda of the political NGO ‘Peace Now’ on the Middle East page of its website on June 10th 2013...
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BBC coverage of building tenders reaches hysterical highs
“Israel approves new settlement homes” was the sensational headline which greeted visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page on August 11th 2013. The message was further hammered home in the...
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BBC report on prisoner release is mostly about something else
One might perhaps expect that an article titled “Palestinian prisoners ‘moved’ before Israel release” would be about prisoners. But in fact the report of that title (including the curious use of...
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BBC’s Marcus invents a “cloudy understanding” about Israeli building
An article entitled “Does Middle-East peace process matter?“ by the BBC’s diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus first appeared in the ‘Features & Analysis’ section of the BBC News website’s...
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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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Filmed reports on the BBC News website’s Middle East page in August
Our monthly count of Israel-related articles and comparison with the amount of exposure given to other countries in the region on the BBC News website’s Middle East page relates to written articles...
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BBC report on building tenders presented in one-sided political terminology
Here are two Tweets sent from the BBC News (World) Twitter account on October 30th 2013: Note the terminology used: “occupied East Jerusalem”, “obstacle to peace”, “new settlement building”. Beyond the...
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BBC continues to promote Israeli building as sole impediment to peace talks
The link to an article which appeared on the Middle East page of the BBC News website on November 8th under the heading “Israel loses Unesco voting rights” leads readers to a report actually titled “US...
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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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The BBC and the Middle Eastern bazaar
Below is a screenshot of the BBC News website’s Middle East page as seen on the morning of November 13th 2013. Two hours later, the lead article was changed, and links added to Yolande Knell’s report...
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Template BBC report on prisoner release
BBC News website coverage of the latest round of releases of Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism and violent crimes began on December 30th with an article titled “Israel prepares to release 26...
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BBC continues to mislead audiences on significance of building tenders
On January 10th the BBC News website’s Middle East page featured a report titled “Israel announces plans for 1,400 new settlement homes” which remained on that page for a total of five consecutive...
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BBC misrepresents Israeli PM’s criticism of EU disregard for PA incitement
On January 17th the BBC News website’s Middle East page featured an article titled “Israel berates ‘pro-Palestinian EU‘” which included a filmed report (shown too on BBC television news) that also...
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What does the BBC refuse to tell its audiences about ‘settlements’ in Jerusalem?
On the evening of February 5th an article appeared on the Middle East page of the BBC News website under the title “Israel approves 558 East Jerusalem settlement homes“. Readers have to wade down to...
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BBC cites ‘large increase’ in Israeli building but fails to provide context
Visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page on the morning of March 4th found there two very similar articles which include some of the same wording and material. The earlier of those articles...
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Another report on talks impasse fails to break the BBC mould
On April 9th an article appeared on the Middle East page of the BBC News website under the title “Israel PM Netanyahu curbs contacts with Palestinians“. The report opens: “Israeli Prime Minister...
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The BBC’s inaccurate and misleading representation of Israeli building – part...
On January 10th 2014 the BBC News website informed its audiences that “Israel announces plans for 1,400 new settlement homes“, 801 of which it described as being situated in “West Bank settlements” and...
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The BBC’s inaccurate and misleading representation of Israeli building – part...
In part one of this post we looked at the BBC’s misrepresentation of Israeli building during the period of the recently ended negotiations between Israel and the PLO and the way in which politically...
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Why is this Israeli planning decision different from others for the BBC?
Whenever an Israeli planning body makes an announcement concerning some stage or other of the construction of apartments and houses in certain neighbourhoods of Jerusalem or towns and villages in Judea...
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The return of the BBC’s political narrative on Israeli construction
Visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page on the morning of January 27th found two reports – one written and one filmed – ostensibly about the Israeli prime minister’s response to remarks...
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