The BBC has admitted it was “inadvisable” for its serving Director of Television Danny Cohen to add his name to a letter opposing a cultural boycott of Israel. Cohen signed the letter in the Guardian in October, along with novelist J.K Rowling and several MPs who are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel. The …
The BBC has found that a broadcast by veteran presenter, John Humphrys, on Radio 4’s Today programme was in breach of the corporation’s editorial guidelines on accuracy. On 19th October, Humphrys and BBC Middle East Correspondent, Kevin Connolly, had a two-way conversation about the escalated violence in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Israel. Palestine …
Today the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has launched a legal case against the Co-operative Bank on the grounds of discrimination. Last month, PSC’s account was closed by the Co-operative Bank which cited “the Bank’s risk appetite” for the closure and has refused to elaborate further. Another 20[i] organisations working for Palestine – including a number …
The BBC’s Director of Television, Danny Cohen, has called for Israel to be protected from cultural boycotts. Cohen joined senior figures from the Parliamentary lobby groups, Conservative Friends of Israel and Labour Friends of Israel, in signing a letter published in the Guardian in October which claims that Israel is being singled out as a …
The BBC’s Director of Television has joined the Chair of Conservative Friends of Israel and the Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel in calling for Israel to be protected from cultural boycotts. Danny Cohen added his name to a letter published in the Guardian last week, claiming Israel was being singled out as a …
The BBC’s head of news and current affairs, and some of the organisation’s most senior presenters, have received innovative reminders this week that the Palestinians are an occupied people whose land is still being stolen from them. Palestine Solidarity Campaign has sent its mugs, printed with maps showing just how much of their land Palestinians …
Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel. All journalists and news organisations should know this basic fact. The BBC, apparently, doesn’t. On 14th October, the BBC’s nightly current affairs programme ‘Newsnight’ wrongly referred to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Reporting from East Jerusalem, the BBC’s Diplomatic Editor, Mark Urban, said: “This evening, there were …
Despite more than 30 Palestinians, almost half of them children, being killed by Israel in the first two weeks of October, the BBC’s reporting has focused on the far fewer attacks which have been carried out against Israelis. The BBC has also refused to place October’s events in the context of the occupation. Many of …
This morning an 18- month-old Palestinian child, Ali Saad Dawabsha, was killed and three other family members were injured following an arson attack on their home in Duma near Nablus. This attack followed another hate-crime by a settler extremist just hours beforehand – with six people being stabbed at Jerusalem Pride. Extremism and hatred is …
The latest official government figures, collated by War on Want, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Campaign Against Arms Trade, reveal that the UK approved £4 million worth of arms sales to Israel in the four months that followed last year’s bombardment of Gaza. The licences cover equipment that is likely to be used if violence resumes; …