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  • Diatribe against anti-terrorist fence on BBC Radio 4


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    As may have been anticipated, episode four of John McCarthy’s radio series “In a Prince’s Footsteps” – broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on May 9 th 2013 and available  here for a limited period of time – consisted of fifteen minutes of undiluted propaganda.  Beginning in the village of al Jib – ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC skirts issue of incitement


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    The headline of an article appearing on May 8th in the Middle East section of the BBC News website informs readers: “ Senior Jerusalem Islamic cleric questioned over clashes “.  The report opens: “Israeli police briefly detained Jerusalem’s most senior Islamic cleric, following clashes between ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC Radio 4 programme on Jerusalem erases Jewish presence


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    In 1862 the population of Jerusalem numbered some 17,800 people, with the majority (eight thousand) being Jews. Two years prior to that date the first Jewish neighbourhood outside the Old City walls – Mishkenot Sha’ananim – had been built by Sir Moses Montefiore. Inside the Old City itself, ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ promotes more Syrian regime propaganda


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    h/t JK The May 6 th edition of BBC Radio 4′s ‘Today’ programme did not only feature a potentially BAFTA-winning performance by Jeremy Bowen pretending that “nobody really knows” whether or why Iranian long-range missiles might be transferred to the terrorist organisation Hizballah via Syria. ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC’s Bowen plays dumb to weave tangled web


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    The Monday May 6 th 2013 edition of BBC Radio 4′s ‘Today’ programme included a contribution from BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen on the subject of the preceding weekend’s alleged Israeli air-strikes on targets in Syria.   The recording can be heard here for a limited period of time, ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC promotes false Hawking boycott claims – updated


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    The BBC News website’s Middle East page is running an article claiming that Professor Stephen Hawking has been persuaded by an anti-Israel organisation to boycott a conference in Israel.  The article opens: “UK cosmologist Prof Stephen Hawking has withdrawn from a high-profile Israeli conference, ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC bias and impartiality


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    So, my last-but-one post – the one about Brian Milligan’s not entirely convincing attempt to persuade us that it’s possible to have a delicious, varied, nutritionally balanced diet for £1 a day – exploded. I don’t know any other way to describe what happened. It was noodling along in a perfectly ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC Q&A on alleged Israeli air strikes is political polemic


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    Among the BBC’s ample coverage of the alleged Israeli air-strikes on targets in Syria related to the transfer of advanced weapons to the terrorist organisation Hizballah , we find a ‘Question & Answer’ article   dated May 5th 2013 .  The article opens: “Israel has carried out two ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC’s Bell finds conspiracy theorist “interesting”


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    Matthew Bell is, as stated in  his Twitter profile , the Middle East correspondent for the radio programme ‘ The World ‘ broadcast by the BBC/ PRI (Public Radio International) on US radio. Here is a Tweet he sent on May 5 th : One must of course wonder if what Bell finds ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC tries to create reality with terminology


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    Does the BBC think it knows something which the rest of the world does not? “Using the word Palestine is controversial for some. Israeli policy is that the borders of a Palestinian state are yet to be agreed .” [emphasis added] That sentence appeared in an article published in the Middle East section of the ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC promotes Assad propaganda in Syria reports


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    The BBC’s reporting on the weekend’s unfolding events in Syria is in top gear. On May 4th an article entitled “ Israeli warplanes launch air strike inside Syria ” – including a filmed report by Wyre Davies which was also broadcast on BBC television news – appeared on the Middle East page of the BBC News ...
    1 week ago
  • BBC’s Sackur suggests being pro-Israel should be a problem


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    h/t FB On May 2 nd and 3 rd 2013 the BBC World Service programme ‘Hardtalk’ – hosted by Stephen Sackur – interviewed the Chairman of the BBC Trust, Chris Patten.  The interview can be heard for a limited period of time here , or as a podcast here . A clip from the programme can be ...
    2 weeks ago
  • The curious CV of a former BBC Arabic journalist


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    British readers may have heard of the ‘Al Mayadeen’ TV station which was launched in June 2012 as an alternative to Al Jazeera and broadcasts from Beirut – if only because it employs one George Galloway for, according to The Times , some £80,000 a year. Those familiar with Galloway’s record at the ...
    2 weeks ago
  • BBC whitewashes anti-Jewish extremism in Tunisia


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    h/t LS On May 1 st a report appeared in the ‘Features & Analysis’ section of the Middle East page of the BBC News website under the heading “At Ease” and with the by-line “Tunisia’s tiny Jewish community unruffled by troubled past”. The link leads to a piece entitled “ Tunisia’s last ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Another ‘soft’ BBC portrayal of terrorism


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    A report from April 23rd entitled “ Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi to end hunger strike ” which appeared in the Middle East section of the BBC News website is marred by inaccuracies and omissions.  The report states: “Issawi had faced the prospect of serving an entire 26-year sentence originally ...
    3 weeks ago
  • BBC promotion of PA narrative on Jewish heritage sites


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    The statement “history is written by the victors” is often attributed to Winston Churchill – although he may well have changed his mind about that had he lived to see some of the modern-day inversions and distortions of Middle East history which are becoming increasingly commonplace.  We previously addressed ...
    3 weeks ago
  • The challenges for science journalism in the UK


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    From Progress in Physical Geography A science journalist is a specialist whose role is, broadly, to report scientific developments to a wider audience than that reached by the academic journals. The world of journalism is changing rapidly as online media grow, squeezing resources and putting pressure on ...
    3 weeks ago
  • More substance-free BBC ‘reporting’ on the Iron Dome


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    Six weeks after the BBC’s Defence Correspondent Jonathan Marcus based an entire article on speculations raised in an opinion piece written by Reuven Pedatzur in Ha’aretz, we now have two more BBC reports on the subject of the Iron Dome – this time by the Jerusalem Bureau’s Kevin Connolly.  Both those ...
    3 weeks ago
  • BBC deems parts of Israeli right of reply statement “irrelevant”


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    Section 6 of the BBC Editorial Guidelines deals with the subject of the ‘ Right of Reply ‘ and states: “6.4.25 When our output makes allegations of wrongdoing, iniquity or incompetence or lays out a strong and damaging critique of an individual or institution the presumption is that those ...
    3 weeks ago
  • After effects: BBC accuracy failure used to promote hate


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    Back in March, when the UN HRC produced a report in which it established that the son of BBC Arabic journalist Jihad Masharawi had been killed as a result of a misfired terrorist rocket in November 2012, BBC Watch wrote : “The BBC used the story of Omar Masharawi to advance the narrative of Israel as a ...
    3 weeks ago

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