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BBC again fails to provide context to ‘starving Gaza baby’ photos Yesterday we documented the BBC’s use of a photograph of a child – then in the Gaza Strip – with an undisclosed underlying genetic medical condition in or

The BBC has manipulatively used context-free images of a disabled child to promote its own chosen narrative of starvation and famine in the Gaza Strip.

That is not journalism; it is propaganda.

Press Release: Channel 4 Aired Gaza Film Despite Producer’s Praise for Terror Channel 4’s recent decision to air a controversial film, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, raises serious ethical concerns. A CAMERA Arabic investigation revealed t

CAMERA UK Press Release: @channel4.bsky.social airs Gaza film despite producer's support of terrorism.

BBC News yet again uncritically promotes unauthenticated UN claims While the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page content has in recent days focused mainly on events in Israel and Iran, visitors have also seen some cover

After spreading Tom Fletcher’s ’14,000 babies will die in 48 hours’ claim, we now see the corporation blindly promoting misinformation that Palestinian "children will begin to die of thirst" from a UN employee who has misled BBC audiences in the past. @bbcnewslive.bsky.social

When will the BBC start reporting accurately and impartially on UNRWA? On April 28th the BBC News website published a report by the corporation’s Hague correspondent Anna Holligan relating to the first day of public hearings on a

A BBC report about the recovery of the bodies of three hostages fails to tell readers that one of them was abducted by an UNRWA employee.

Omissions in BBC report about strike on Iran state TV building In the early hours of June 17th the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten headlined “Israel bombs Iran state TV during live broadcast” which

The BBC’s promotion of unverified claims made by representatives of the Iranian regime, its state-controlled media and media outlets run by the IRGC is not conducive to full audience understanding of events.

Initial BBC News website coverage of events in Iran and Israel On the morning of June 13th the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page had little to offer its visitors in the way of reporting on the strikes that Israel

Here's our round-up and analysis of BBC's coverage of the Israel-Iran war to date.

Looking behind the titles of two BBC sources in the Gaza Strip On June 3rd the BBC News website published a report by Tom Bennett titled “At least 27 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire near aid centre, Gaza authorities s

Sources quoted by the BBC in reports on alleged incidents at aid distribution sites are members of - or covering for - Hamas.

BBC News prioritises ‘aid yacht’ propaganda over factual information Visitors to the BBC News website on the morning of June 9th found no fewer than three items relating to the topic of the UK flagged one-boat agitprop which had

BBC uncritically quoted activists from the aid yacht claiming that the IDF's naval blockade is "illegal", without informing audiences that a 2011 UN Panel of Inquiry ruled that the naval blockade is in fact LEGAL.

BBC Verify ‘explains’ the corporation’s Hamas quotes Readers may have noticed that statements made by the White House Press Secretary at a press briefing on June 3rd sparked severe irritation at the BBC. Karoli

While some of the WH Press Secretary’s remarks were indeed inaccurate, it is nevertheless remarkable that the BBC chooses to defend its use of information supplied by a terror org and to claim that it does so because “Israel doesn’t allow...news organisations into Gaza” camera-uk.org/2025/06/08/b...

BBC News again platforms Tom Fletcher’s disinformation and smears Previously we discussed the BBC’s May 20th platforming of UN OCHA’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom

BBC's Fergal Keane and the UN's Tom Fletcher promoted smears including “forced starvation”, “ethnic cleansing”, “war crimes” and “genocide” – with both participants knowing full well that such irresponsible language serves the interests of Hamas’ psychological warfare.

Guardian maliciously defames slain Israeli soldier Master Sgt. (res.) Naftali Yonah Gordon, 32, a soldier in the 188th Armored Brigade’s 53rd Battalion, was killed in battle in Gaza on Dec. 7, 2023, exactly tw

Naftali Yonah Gordon was killed in battle in Gaza two months into the war which began when Hamas perpetrated the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust.

@theguardian.com's Ahmed Moor maliciously defamed the slain soldier in a hateful op-ed camera-uk.org/2025/06/03/g...

BBC promotion of the Rafah incident that wasn’t Early on the morning of June 1st the BBC News website published a report headlined “At least 15 killed in Israeli fire near Gaza aid centre, say medics”.

The BBC’s coverage of this latest Gaza non-massacre again shows that too many of its journalists adopt the default position of believing the worst about Israel even when based on unverified claims from politically motivated sources which serve Hamas’ propaganda agenda.

More politically motivated erasure of Jerusalem history by BBC News On the evening of May 26th the BBC News website published a report by Wyre Davies and Ruth Comerford headlined “Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Isra

The BBC's failure to provide relevant context concerning Jerusalem's history while embracing PLO recommended terminology is not a one-off error.

An example of why accuracy in BBC reporting matters Eylon Levy recently posted a social media thread which provides an illustration of the consequences of accuracy failures in BBC reporting. As reported by Lev

The UK Foreign Secretary promoted a false quote in Parliament which was apparently sourced from an inaccurate BBC report.

How is the BBC handling its own promotion of '14,000 babies' disinformation? As we noted last week, on May 20th the BBC News website posted a filmed report titled “Gazan babies will die without aid - UN humanitarian chief” shortly af

Jeremy Bowen framed the incendiary and false claim about '14,000 babies' dying in 48 hours as mere “criticism” of Israel, and then implied that those pushing back against such provocative disinformation were ‘crying wolf’ about antisemitism.

After antisemitic murder by 'Free-Palestine' activist, Guardian attacks Israel The Guardian began a Live Blog today on the murder last night, by a far-left, anti-Zionist activist, of two Israeli embassy staff outside a Washington, DC Jewis

The Guardian couldn’t even report on the antisemitism-inspired execution in Washington, DC of two Israeli embassy staff by a Palestine supporter without suggesting that Israel’s putative villainy represented vital ‘context’ by which to understand the murders.

Cross-platform promotion of UN disinformation by the BBC The May 20th edition of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme included news bulletins and items relating to a statement “on the situation in Gaza and the West

Although BBC audiences had not been provided with any information to support the assertion that "14,000 babies were going to die within 48 hours", the BBC chose to post that claim on its website and promote it on social media a couple of hours later.

Hamas supporting Gaza journalist claims ‘the BBC insisted to pay me’ Readers may be familiar with the recent story about a Gaza Strip based journalist who allegedly agreed to stage crisis footage in exchange for payment. Since

Perhaps the BBC would care to inform its funding public exactly which items of “trusted news” were based on materials it sourced from Hamas-supporting "journalist"
Motasem Dalloul, and what work he has done at the request of news editors.

More Gaza narrative promotion from the BBC’s Fergal Keane For the past nineteen months the BBC’s Fergal Keane has been a man on a mission. On his periodic trips to Israel, Keane and his team have produced multiple

Fergal Keane’s latest campaign is part of a wider and ongoing BBC effort to promote the false narrative of famine in the Gaza Strip. camera-uk.org/2025/05/15/m...

Guardian's Ahmed Moor shills for another antisemitic terror group The Houthis, an Iranian-backed Islamist extremist group whose slogan includes "Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse be upon the Jews", has, in addition to

/@theguardian.com columnist Ahmed Moor again shills for terrorists.

The Financial Times' shameful silence about Hamas An op-ed by the Financial Times (FT) editorial board ("The west's shameful silence on Gaza", May 6) provides a hint as to the direction of the piece in strap

A recent opinion piece by @financialtimes.com
editorial board not only demonised Israel, but completely erased Hamas, the antisemitic extremist group whose mass murder of Jews on Oct. 7th started the war. camera-uk.org/2025/05/12/t...

Our research found that of 145 online news articles at the BBC between Jan 1 and April 30 this year which referred to Hamas, only 12 (8.2%) explicitly stated that it was a proscribed terror org in the UK.

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When will the BBC start reporting accurately and impartially on UNRWA? On April 28th the BBC News website published a report by the corporation’s Hague correspondent Anna Holligan relating to the first day of public hearings on a

BBC has consistently refrained from conducting any meaningful investigations into the topic of the participation of UNRWA employees in the Oct. 7th massacre or the wider issue of UNRWA connections to proscribed terror groups, opting instead to blandly amplify that UN agency’s denials and claims.

New PLO vice-chair gets just one sentence of BBC coverage On the evening of April 27th the BBC News website published a report headlined “Qatar claims slight progress towards ceasefire in Gaza”. Credited to BBC New

BBC's report on Mahmoud Abbas naming his close confidant Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy in the PLO omitted that al-Sheikh's record includes over a decade of imprisonment for terrorism related offences.

BBC promotion of unverified claims from anti-Israel activists The lead item in the May 2nd edition of the BBC World Service ‘Global News Podcast’ was presented to listeners as follows: “Activists accuse Israel of a

The BBC’s idea of 'accurate and impartial journalism' is to promote unevidenced claims made by members of an organisation with a long record of anti-Israel activism, while omitting relevant background on the org's ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

BBC News defends Hamas casualty figures once again In the early hours of April 23rd, the BBC News website published a report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande Knell under the headline “Gaza health minist

For 18 months, the BBC has uncritically quoted and promoted Hamas’ casualty figures, despite faulty methodology, repeated removals of names, the inclusion of natural deaths and people killed in previous rounds of conflict and the absence of independent verification.

Airbrushing terrorists from the BBC’s ‘permanent public record’ As readers may know, the BBC’s editorial guidelines state that "[t]he archive of the BBC's online content is a permanent public record and its existence is

BBC fails to update their reports, or publish new articles, when evidence emerges backing up IDF claims that Hamas fighters were indeed illegally using civilian facilities in Gaza, and were indeed the target of an Israeli attack.

BBC’s Knell bases one-sided report on NGO press releases

In typical BBC fashion, a BBC report by Yolande Knell devotes extensive, sympathetic coverage to recently released Palestinian terrorist, Ahmed Manasra, while ignoring the Israeli victims, including 13 year old Naor Ben-Ezra, who almost died in the 2015 attack camera-uk.org/2025/04/20/b...

Guardian airbrushes the pro-Hamas activism of Mohsen Mahdawi As we've documented, the Guardian's coverage of the case involving Mahmoud Khalil, the Syrian-born Columbia University graduate (and US permanent resident) wh

@theguardian.com institutional refusal to report on the extremism and antisemitism in the anti-Israel movement can be seen again in their coverage of a pro-Hamas activist who faces deportation from the US.