Six BBC reporters taken off air as probe launched over pro-Palestine tweets

Nov 21, 2023 by

from Financial Times: Guardian decides not to renew contract of veteran cartoonist Steve Bell after image featuring Israeli PM was pulled. The BBC has taken six reporters in the Middle East off air and launched an investigation into posts...

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Why Does the BBC Keep Making Anti-Israel ‘Mistakes’?

Nov 17, 2023 by

by Will Jones, Daily Sceptic: Notoriously, the BBC recently reported that the Israeli army was “targeting people, including medical teams as well as Arab speakers” – a misreading, it appears, of a Reuters report that stated: “the IDF...

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The BBC is a globally important broadcaster, which is why I’m so sad that it’s institutionally blind to anti...

Nov 6, 2023 by

by Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail: Headlines matter. A lot. And the one BBC News Online put on its report last week about a Jew-hunting mob at an airport in Dagestan amazed me. It read: ‘Anti-Israel mob storms Dagestan airport in...

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The west’s fifth columnists

Oct 20, 2023 by

by Melanie Phillips: Media outlets are enabling anti-Jewish evil in a time of war. For several hours this week, the BBC, The New York Times, The Financial Times and other prominent mainstream media outlets claimed that Israel had bombed...

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Ofcom cannot be trusted to regulate our speech

Oct 19, 2023 by

by Andrew Tettenborn, spiked: The suspension of its online-safety director over an Israelophobic rant needs to be a big wake-up call. Ofcom is expanding. On top of regulating all radio and TV licensed for broadcast in the UK, it’s now set...

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The Gaza hospital attack and the BBC

Oct 19, 2023 by

by David Herman, The Article: John Ware was a distinguished reporter for the BBC for almost thirty years and on Saturday wrote an excellent piece for The Article on the problems the BBC got itself into over impartiality, especially over...

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