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BBC takes lessons on ‘impartiality’ from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
As readers may have heard, the BBC has described a former employee’s signature on a letter opposing a cultural boycott of Israel as “inadvisable”. “The BBC has criticised former director of television...
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Anti-Israel BBC interviewee runs foul of UK bank’s ‘risk appetite’
Last month the Jewish Chronicle reported that a British bank had informed an anti-Israel campaigning group of its decision to terminate services. Anti-Israel rally, London, UK, 17/10/2015 “An...
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BBC News tries – and fails – to explain antisemitism and anti-Zionism
As regular readers of BBC Watch know, the corporation has a pretty gloomy record when it comes to preventing, identifying – and correcting – antisemitic discourse in its own content. BBC programmes...
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BBC Radio 4 fails to clarify the agenda of the BDS campaign and the PSC
The September 18th edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday‘ included an item (from 11:54 here) described as follows in the synopsis: “Jewish students fight the movement for sanctions against...
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BBC’s ‘The Big Questions’ brings in pro-BDS NGOs to talk Israel trade
h/t SJ The first discussion topic in the February 12th edition of BBC One’s “moral, ethical and religious” debate programme ‘The Big Questions’ was titled “should we trade with Israel now settlements...
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Weekend long read
As regular readers are aware, members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign sometimes appear in BBC content (most recently on BBC One just a couple of weeks ago) and in 2014 the PSC was the foreign NGO...
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BBC News report on PSC and BDS fails to explain either
On March 13th an article headlined “UK pro-Palestinian activist deported from Israel” appeared on the BBC News website’s UK and Middle East pages. The first two paragraphs of the later version of the...
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Promoted and quoted: the BBC’s preferred NGO contributors in 2017
As has been the case in previous years (see related articles below), Israel related content produced by the BBC during 2017 frequently included contributions or information sourced from NGOs. BBC...
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Weekend long read
1) The ITIC has published its initial findings concerning the “Identities of the Palestinians killed in the most recent round of escalation”. “Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesman for the ministry of health in...
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BBC Arabic website promotes antisemitic Holocaust analogy
A demonstration organised by groups including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al Aqsa and the Muslim Association of Britain took place in London earlier this month. As documented by the...
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