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BBC’s Bowen employs apartheid analogy in report on Paris conference
Following on from his reporting on the conference hosted by the French government in Paris on June 3rd on the BBC News website and on BBC World Service radio’s ‘Newshour’, Jeremy Bowen also appeared on...
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Examining the BBC’s claim that Israeli building endangers the two state solution
For years a dominant and recurrent theme in BBC coverage of Israel has been construction in Israeli communities in Judea & Samaria and certain districts in Jerusalem which is regularly portrayed as...
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BBC News continues to cultivate its settlements narrative
There is of course nothing novel about the BBC’s promotion of the politicised narrative according to which ‘settlements are an obstacle to peace’. Last month we noted here that the statistics do not...
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BBC’s Fatah profile misleads on reason for failure of 2010 negotiations
The BBC News website’s profile of Fatah has not been updated in over five years and hence does not provide BBC audiences with any up to date information on the topic of the power struggles within that...
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More BBC promotion of the ‘Peace Now’ narrative on construction
A report on preliminary planning permission for a housing project for senior citizens would not normally make front page news on the BBC News website. That, however, is precisely what happened on...
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BBC News pushes settlements narrative in report on another topic
On September 13th an article titled “US approves record $38bn Israel military aid deal” was published on the BBC News website’s US & Canada and Middle East pages. The next day – for reasons unknown...
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BBC News amends misleading portrayal of Israeli construction
Earlier this week we noted that a report titled “US approves record $38bn Israel military aid deal” which was published on the BBC News website’s US & Canada and Middle East pages on September 13th...
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BBC News amplifies inaccurate US claim of ‘new settlement’
On October 6th an article appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the headline “US ‘strongly condemns’ Israel over new settlement plan“. The report opened by telling readers that:...
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BBC WS report on UNSC resolution endorses Palestinian narrative
On the afternoon of December 22nd (before news broke of Egypt’s withdrawal of its draft resolution tabled at the UN Security Council) listeners to the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ heard...
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BBC News website produces a backgrounder on ‘settlements’
One of the most frequently recurring topics in the BBC’s Israel-related related content is that of ‘settlements’ and particularly construction in the places described as such. Examples from the past...
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The Jerusalem building permits the BBC didn’t report
On the afternoon of January 22nd the BBC News website published an article titled “Israel approves settlement homes following Trump inauguration” to which amendments were subsequently made. The article...
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More partial reporting on Israeli building permits from BBC News
On January 25th the lead story on the BBC News website’s Middle East page once again concerned Israeli planning permits. In that article – titled “UN condemns Israel’s West Bank settlement plans” –...
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‘Due impartiality’ and BBC reporting on Israeli construction
If there’s one Middle East related topic the BBC can be relied upon to report methodically, that is Israeli announcements concerning building plans in Judea & Samaria and parts of Jerusalem: areas...
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Quantifying BBC ‘due impartiality’ on ‘international law’
For years visitors to the BBC News website have regularly come across claims concerning ‘international law’ in the corporation’s Israel-related content. For example: “The settlements are considered...
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BBC contradicts years of its own narrative on Israeli construction
The use of imprecise language in BBC reports has frequently steered audiences towards the inaccurate belief that in recent years new communities have been built in Judea & Samaria and the parts of...
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BBC Radio 4 amplification of PA messaging on Israeli construction
As readers may recall, the BBC’s standard narrative on the topic of Israeli construction in Area C and the parts of Jerusalem that were under Jordanian occupation between 1948 and 1967 was contradicted...
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BBC News promotes more of its unvarying narrative on Israeli construction
On June 20th an article titled “Israel starts work on first new West Bank settlement in 20 years” was published on the BBC News website’s Middle East page. Like the BBC Radio 4 report on the same...
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BBC WS Newsday’s one-sided ‘peace process’ reporting – part two
As we saw in part one of this post, on August 24th the lead story in the early edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newsday‘ related to a visit to the Middle East by a US delegation. That...
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BBC practice of repeat reporting of Israeli planning permits continues
Earlier this month the BBC’s most quoted Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, published an article by Barak Ravid and Chaim Levinson titled “Netanyahu Pledged 3,800 New Settlement Homes, but Only 600 Will Be...
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BBC News website misleads on construction plans
As documented here last week, early on the morning of July 27th a report concerning a terror attack that had taken place the previous evening in the community of Geva Binyamin (Adam) was published on...
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