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

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.

1/7 A man shouted #AllahuAkbar and made bomb threats on an @easyJet flight.

His name? Abhay Nayak, 41 — not a typical #Muslim name (not that it should matter)

We reviewed 16 major UK news articles. Here's what we found.🧵@cfmmuk 2/7 12 out of 16 articles put "Allahu Akbar" in the headline or opening lines.

Only four including the @AP @BBCNews and @SkyNews mention the suspect’s name in subsequent follow up reporting.

"Notice how interest in the story seems to have faded once it became clear the passenger shouting 'Allahu Akbar' was likely not Muslim?"

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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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.

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#BBCBias #Gaza @BBCNewscfmm.org.uk/wp-content/upl… 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

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.

1/🧵 NEW REPORT: GB News seems to hate Islam and Muslims. Would you agree?

Our 2-year analysis - published today - shows our findings & reveals an obsessive focus on Muslims unlike any other UK broadcaster.

Full report here:
  cfmm.org.uk/gbnews-report-… 2/ 📊 GB News’ obsession with Muslims is staggering:

- 17,000+ mentions of Muslims/Islam
- 50% of ALL mentions across UK news channels
- Double the coverage on "Sharia" of BBC & Sky combined

During this election, GB News, the Telegraph, Jewish Chronicle & other news outlets have framed Muslims voting in the #GeneralElection2024 as “sectarian”, “extremists”, antisemites and constantly questioned their loyalty to Britain.

Evidence laid out in the thread below 🧵1/25 Concerns and anger over Gaza have been framed as a "Muslim issue" across the media and elections such as Rochdale where @georgegalloway won have been described as as a dark period for British Democracy

Do you remember how the British Media covered #TrojanHorseAffair?

As @nytimes latest podcast shows, there was no plot and the media failed to ask basic questions around the letter and its origins.

Lives ruined. Communities slurred. Will newspapers and broadcasters apologise? As @OborneTweets has argued; “With few exceptions, journalists failed to examine the underlying facts while repeating what turned out to be false allegations.”

middleeasteye.net/opinion/trojan…

The @talkRADIO, @dailystar & @Daily_Express reported a gay paramedic was refused entry to a mosque to treat a heart attack patient

Our investigation found this demonisation of mosques was made up

Basic checks would have prevented this dangerous lie being spread

More here👇🏽👇🏽 The caller "Tom" was given almost 17 mins of airtime by @cristo_radio to make allegations including how he was prevented from entering the #Mosque, was threatened with decapitation the streets of #Oldham and that he needed police back up on call-outs to certain addresses

Today, as the #Christchurch attacker faces sentencing in New Zealand, CfMM has launched a groundbreaking report, "How The British Media Reports Terrorism."

Here's a thread of some of our key findings.

Full report available on our website: cfmm.org.uk/resources/publ… Reporting of attacks is inconsistent, depending on who the perpetrator is, with white, non-Muslim perpetrators less likely to be referred to as #terrorists.

Another win for CfMM and our supporters! @TheSun has changed an incredibly misleading headline and opening paragraph, following complaints from our staff and volunteers. A huge thank you to all who have written in! The initial headline wrongly implied that half of all imported UK #COVID19 cases were from Pakistan, and noted that 65K people returned to the UK from there since 1 March, implying a huge influx of cases prior to #lockdown.

In 2015, a UNHCR report on the refugee crisis found that, "Britain’s right-wing media was uniquely aggressive in its campaigns against refugees and migrants."

In the past 5 years, not much has changed.

#Refugees #Immigration #MediaBias @Refugees 1/7 Today's example from the Mail Online blames far-right terror attacks in Germany on the so called 'migrant crisis' of 2015, when Angela Merkel opened the borders to migrants crossing the Mediterranean. 2/7

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…