The two NGOs that are running neck-and-neck in the anti-Israel NGO sweepstakes this year, as they have every year for at least the past two decades, are Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International. In late August, HRW issued its report accusing the IDF of “gunning down Palestinian children,” a report that was based on […]
How the BBC Reported on the Latest Palestinian Jihad Terror Attacks
The BBC’s David Gritten has committed another journalistic travesty. “BBC News Reports an ‘Attack on a Car,’” by Hadar Sela, CAMERA, August 23, 2023: On the afternoon of August 21st the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten about a fatal terror attack which had taken place on the morning of the same day near the Beit Hagai junction. […]
Media Fails in Coverage of Palestinian Terrorism in Judea and Samaria
The major media — wire services UPI, AP, and Agence France Presse (AFP), the television networks CNN, CBS, and the BBC — have singularly failed, recently, to report accurately on Palestinian terrorism in Judea and Samaria, a/k/a the West Bank. The errors range from misidentifying victims as “settlers,” to refusing to identify Palestinians murdering Israeli […]
How the BBC Blames Israel and Absolves Palestinians for the Mistreatment of Journalists
Everyone remembers the death of Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who worked for Al Jazeera. She was standing just outside the entrance to Jenin on May 11, 2022, while a firefight went on between the IDF and terrorists from Jenin camp, when she was shot and killed. The Israelis have said that they believe there […]
How the BBC Covered an IDF Counter-Terrorism Operation
The BBC’s Yolande Knell has committed another journalistic travesty: “Over 24 Hours Late and Just 37 Words: BBC News ‘Reports’ Tel Aviv Terror Attack,” by Hadar Sela, CAMERA UK, August 8, 2023: …“On Friday, armed Jewish settlers attacked a Palestinian village where a young Palestinian man was shot dead…” […] On Friday night, extremist settlers […]
How the BBC Covered a Palestinian Terror Attack
Late on August 6, the BBC News website published a report by the Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell about a counter-terrorism operation that had taken place several hours earlier. During that operation, three wanted terrorists on their way from Jenin to carry out a shooting attack against Israeli civilians near Mevo Dotan were shot dead. Nevertheless, […]
BBC Reporter Claims ‘Israelis Are Happy to Kill Children’
Of course, we shouldn’t be surprised. The BBC has a deep bench of Israel-haters. There have been such anti-Israel and antisemitic luminaries as Jeremy Bowen, Robert Fisk, Barbara Plett (who wept as she reported on the death of “that frail old man” Yasser Arafat), Orla Guerin, Lyse Doucet, Yolande Knell, and finally, the latest entry […]
BBC slammed in India for misrepresentation of ‘Love Jihad’
“Love jihad” is a term used for the phenomenon in which minority women and girls are manipulated, coerced or kidnapped by Muslim men, and then raped and forced into marriage. Each year, 1,000 mostly Hindu and Christian girls in Pakistan alone are forcibly converted to Islam in this manner. It is widespread in India, too. […]
Man-Bites-Dog Department: BBC Covers — Briefly — the Palestinian Authority’s Despotism
The BBC reporters covering Israeli and the Palestinians ordinarily devote almost all of their attention to the supposed mistreatment of the Palestinians by those terrible Israelis. A series of BBC reporters — Robert Fisk, Jeremy Bowen, Barbara Plett, Lyse Doucet, and now Yolande Knell — have for decades been poisoning the minds of their vast […]
The Fighting Has Stopped, But Skewed Reporting on the Israel-Palestinian Islamic Jihad Conflict Continues
.@BBCBreakfast, Israel's terms for the ceasefire with Islamic Jihad were pretty clear: quiet would be answered with quiet. Yet 90 minutes into the ceasefire, the terror group continued to fire rockets at Israeli cities. So how did Israel breach the ceasefire, @rachelburden? pic.twitter.com/teVhlwGLx7 — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 15, 2023 The international media continue to paint Israel […]