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BBC report on Palestinian affairs promotes gratuitous Israel references
BBC Watch regularly documents the comparatively little coverage given by the BBC to internal Palestinian affairs and so it was interesting to note the appearance of a report headlined “Israa Ghrayeb:...
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BBC News again self-conscripts to Banksy’s Israel delegitimisation
For years the BBC has uncritically promoted the recurrent anti-Israel propaganda produced by the anonymous English political activist known as Banksy. It hence came as no surprise to see that the lead...
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BBC WS radio airs anti-terrorist fence falsehoods
In addition to the BBC News website’s written puff piece relating to the latest agitprop in Bethlehem from Banksy, the corporation also promoted the same story on television and radio. Listeners to the...
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BBC politicisation of Christmas continues on WS radio
The December 24th edition of BBC World Service radio’s ‘Global News Podcast’ included yet another example (from 13:00 here) of the BBC’s politicisation of Christmas. Presenter Alex Ritson introduced...
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The BBC’s biased Bethlehem binge continues
Yesterday we documented an overtly politicised Christmas report by Barbara Plett Usher which was aired on BBC World Service radio’s ‘Global News Podcast’ on Christmas Eve. BBC politicisation of...
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Another BBC item promotes falsehoods about Israel’s anti-terrorist fence
On January 3rd BBC Radio 4’s ‘Archive on 4’ re-ran an hour-long programme first aired in November 2019 under the title “Build the Wall!”. “On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Katy...
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BBC’s Tom Bateman tells part of a story about a Palestinian house ‘in a cage’
On February 14th the BBC News website published a filmed report by the Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman on its ‘Middle East’ page. Titled “Israel-Palestinian conflict: The family with its own...
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BBC shows limited interest in a new Gaza border wall
Last month various media outlets reported that Egypt had begun the construction of a wall along its border with the Gaza Strip. “Egypt has begun building a concrete wall along its border with the Gaza...
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BBC WS provides a platform for anti-Israel campaigning
An organisation called Palestine Community Foundation was set up in the UK in 2018 by a British woman called Razan Shamallakh who appears to believe that Israel is “my own country” and brands Israelis...
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BBC Travel article on Bethlehem promotes Nazi analogy
On April 7th BBC Travel published a long article headlined “A new side to the holy city of Bethlehem” by a writer called Richard Morgan. “Known for being the birthplace of Jesus Christ, this...
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