An open letter signed by 7,000 people was today sent to the BBC calling for the removal of the broadcaster’s Head of Statistics from all reporting on Palestine and Israel. The demand followed an article published on the BBC website, in which the Head of Statistics, Anthony Reuben, misused Palestinian casualty figures in an attempt …
Gaza: let down by the BBC and mainstream media? Palestine Solidarity Campaign brought together the film director Ken Loach, columnist and commentator Owen Jones, the BBC’s former Middle East correspondent, Tim Llewellyn, and Greg Philo, director of the Glasgow Media Group, to debate where the mainstream media got it right, and where it got it wrong, …
The BBC continues to flood its airwaves with Israeli spokespeople when reporting on the assault on Gaza, and it allows those spokespeople to trot out Israeli propaganda lines which are complete falsehoods. These propaganda lines go unchallenged by BBC interviewers and, the majority of the time, the BBC does not invite a Palestinian spokesperson onto …
On 15th July, 5,000 demonstrators blocked the traffic outside the BBC’s headquarters in Portland Place, London, protesting at its one-sided coverage of Israel’s assaults on Gaza. Hugh Lanning, Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, handed in a letter to the BBC’s director general, Tony Hall, signed by 45,ooo people, calling for the BBC to reflect the …
Around 5,000 protestors blocked the road outside the BBC’s London studios yesterday for two hours, shouting ‘BBC, shame on you’. (15th July) The protestors were demanding that the broadcaster start reflecting the reality of Gaza’s occupation and siege in its coverage of the current assaults. Hugh Lanning, Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, handed a letter …
Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Ken Loach are among 45,000 signatories who have signed an open letter to the BBC calling on its journalists to reflect the reality of Gaza’s occupation while reporting on Israel’s current assault. MPs Andy Slaughter and Katy Clark have also signed the letter, along with musician Brian Eno and comedian …
Please sign this open letter to the BBC. Ask your MP to sign it. Ask your friends to sign. Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be presenting this letter, with your signatures on it, to the Director General of the BBC, Lord Hall.Dear BBCOnce again Gaza is under massive aerial bombardment from Israeli warplanes and drones, and, …
Campaigners are taking the BBC to a tribunal in a bid to find out why the corporation insists on promoting Jerusalem as an ‘Israeli city’. An appeal was lodged in the UK last week with the First-Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) by Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and Friends of Al Aqsa (FOA). The two organisations are …
Media release For immediate release BBC upholds complaint on online article about Israeli settlers A BBC Online article about the life of Israeli settlers breached editorial guidelines on accuracy, the BBC has ruled. The article focused on two British men who had chosen to go and live in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian West …