BBC Watch

First thing in the morning, we, the participants on CAMERA’s Annual Leadership and Advocacy Training Mission to Israel departed our hotel to Kfar Haruv, a kibbutz located in the southern Golan Heights to meet Hadar Sela, the managing director of BBC Watch. Before hearing from Sela, we were entranced by the...

Written by CAMERA trip participant Rachel Wolf On the seventh full day of the Israel trip, students met with Hadar Sela, the managing editor of the BBC Watch. The students also went to Majdal Shams and met with one of the prominent leaders there, watched an Oz 77 film about the...

The following post has been reposted from CAMERA’s blog, Snapshots:  CAMERA is delighted that popular blogger Elder of Ziyon has selected CAMERA as the 2014 winner of the Hasby Award in the category of Best Mainstream Media Watchdog. Elder writes: Besides having a stellar year with dozens of articles showing bias in the...

More BBC whitewashing of ‘Al Quds Day’ A BBC guide to Iran’s Al Quds day presents it as an eccentric local custom. (BBC Watch ) Manipulating BBC audience opinions with pictures The caption to a photograph showcased by the BBC omits vital context and includes a politically loaded adjective. (BBC...

BBC Weather doesn’t know in which country Jerusalem is located On the BBC Weather website, Jerusalem is presented as not being in any country. (BBC Watch) BBC’s Knell misleads on entry of construction materials to Gaza Once again, the BBC fails to inform audiences why restricting the entry of dual-purpose...

BBC Persian Service promotes anti-Semitic Holocaust denier Atzmon The BBC’s promotion of Gilad Atzmon is not novel, but translation into Farsi for broadcast in Iran is a new low. (BBC Watch) BBC resurrects Knell’s ‘one-state’ campaigning article An old article promoting the ‘one-state solution’ as a panacea to the troubles...

What are BBC audiences being told about ME talks? Taking a look at what the BBC is telling its audiences about the Middle East peace talks. (BBC Watch) Can’t Find A Referendum? You Must Be Gidon Levy Gidon Levy claims democracies don’t use referendums. (Presspectiva) Guardian falsely claims that most...

The Guardian Asks if 4.9 Million Palestinian “Refugees” Will “Return” to Cities…Where They Never Lived Those who get their news from the Guardian could be forgiven for falsely believing that there are nearly 5 million Palestinian refugees from the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli War. The truth is that there are closer to...