📢 NEW REPORT:
A year-long analysis of BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza reveals a pattern of bias, double standards & silencing of Palestinian voices.
Despite 34x more Palestinian deaths, Israeli fatalities received 33x more coverage per death.
Humanising stories:
BBC ran nearly the same number of victim profiles for Palestinians (279) & Israelis (201) — despite 34 times more Palestinian deaths.
📣 Emotive language like “slaughter” & “massacre” was used 4x more often for Israelis.
#MediaBias #BBCGazaCoverage @BBCNews
🎙️ Whose voices count?
The BBC interviewed:
🔹 2,350 Israelis
🔹 1,085 Palestinians
#BBCBias @BBCNews
BBC asked 38 guests to condemn Hamas. It asked zero to condemn Israel’s mass killing of civilians.
#BBCBias
🕊️ Context erased:
Only 0.5% of BBC articles mentioned Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
The BBC only mentioned ‘occupation’ 14 times in news articles when providing context to 7 October (0.3% of articles)
Apartheid, settlements, expulsions — all missing from the story.
#Gaza #BBC @BBCNews
📵 Genocide claims shut down:
BBC presenters interrupted or dismissed genocide claims over 100 times — yet made no mention of Netanyahu’s Amalek reference or genocidal rhetoric by Israeli leaders.
The BBC is underreporting what the world increasingly sees as a live-streamed genocide.
🔒 Unequal victims:
The BBC called Israeli captives "hostages" - but Palestinian detainees, incl. children held without charge, were "prisoners."
During a major hostage exchange (90 Palestinians, 3 Israelis), 70% of articles focused on the 3 Israelis.
#DoubleStandards @BBCNews
🎥 Gaza vs Ukraine:
The BBC:
🔸 Mentioned Russian war crimes 2.6x more than Israeli ones
🔸 Used sympathetic language for Ukrainian victims 2x more than for Palestinians
🔸 Covered Ukraine with twice as many articles
So much for equal coverage.
#GazaUnderAttack #Ukraine @BBCNews
📑 The Centre for Media Monitoring @cfmmuk calls for an independent public review of the BBC’s Gaza reporting.
This report is evidence-based, rigorous & damning. The BBC must reform.
1/10 🧵After the Bondi Beach attack, #British TV coverage repeatedly blurred the line between terrorism & #Muslims whilst framing the attack around #Palestine solidarity & slogans like 'Globalise the #intifada.'
@cfmmuk examines some of these failures👇
#MediaBias #Gaza
2/10 The now predictable @TalkTV framed most of its discussions to “Muslim communities”, “Islamic culture” and “Muslim values”, shifting blame from a violent fringe group to #Muslims as a collective.
3/10 Some suggest #ISIS violence flows naturally from Islam . #Islam is framed as the problem not extremist ideology and described as "a cult" with #Muslims accused of having a code of protection. You couldn't say this about any other community on British TV. @Ofcom
1/10 In light of the hooliganism involving #MaccabiTelAviv supporters, a reminder of how some of the worst examples from UK media framing @WMPolice decision to ban away fans from the @AVFCOfficial game.
A thread of some examples from British based broadcasters. 🧵
@Ofcom ???
2/10 After suggesting that the notoriously violent #Maccabi fans weren't violent, @SkyNews presented Andrew Fox a well known propagandist for Israel, as a regular @AVFCOfficial fan.
Note how @Novara found how Fox was among those who suggested #Israel should target more journalists
3/10 GB News allowing a #Maccabi supporter to claim that 5-10 percent of #Birmingham's #Muslims are extremists?
No challenge to this unsubstantiated, random claim just a nodding head
1//9 A thread on @BBCNews coverage of the murder of Al Jazeera journalist #AnasAlSharif & colleagues 🧵👇
Bulletins often opened with “#Israel says”. @cfmmuk found since his killing, “Israel says/claims” appeared 54 times in BBC TV & radio bulletins.
2/9 This isn’t just word choice. “#Israel says” puts an unverified claim — that #AnasAlSharif was a Hamas operative — first, before facts.
Context that he once worked in #Hamas-run media is added, but near Israel’s claim it risks implying past links justify killing him.
3/9 This @BBCNews par opens with “Israel says…”, leading with an unverified claim before facts, condemnations & legal context. Even with “little evidence” later, the first frame sets the tone—tilting the story toward the military narrative.
3/7 "Allahu Akbar" means "God is greater" in Arabic. Muslims say it in prayer, celebration, and everyday life.
When a likely non-Muslim man says it during a violent act, it still seems to heighten media interest despite the man shouting many other slogans such as anti-Trump rhetoric.
GB News reporting here on local opposition to a Muslim burial site being built in Farnham. The journalist focused the story on 'concerns around Muslim practices of body storage', as reported by "local press". These reports don't exist. Is GB News manufacturing moral outage?
The 1st interviewee, an activist in Farnham, dismissed GB News' line of questioning, referring instead to concerns around congestion and the environment, not body storage.
A 2nd interviewee was then brought on to discuss the "difference between a Muslim burial and a normal Christian one". The interviewee was then asked about "local concerns about [unrefrigerated] bodies" and whether it is "legal in the UK to store an [unrefrigerated] body for 24hr"