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Western media’s silence on Iran reveals troubling pattern of ignoring democracy - opinion

Western news coverage often promotes Iran’s regime, ignoring citizens fighting for democracy and freedom.

|ByGIL HOFFMAN
A supporter of the Iranian people bears the colors of their flag on her face at a rally for the nationwide protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran, in Madrid, Spain, last week.
BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK.

The BBC haunted by bias - and the Israeli connection

Senior journalist Malcolm Balen examined hundreds of hours of BBC broadcast material, TV and radio, analyzing the content in minute detail. His 20,000-word report was later classified as top secret.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Britain's ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 8, 2025

UK's former US envoy Peter Mandelson apologizes to Epstein's victims, leaving out his own actions

"I want to apologize to those women for a system that refused to hear their voices and did not give them the protection they were entitled to expect," Mandelson told the BBC.

|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The cello had belonged to her late friend, the theatre producer Martin Landau, and had been broken by Nazi guards when he fled to Britain on the Kindertransport aged 14.

BBC fails to mention Jews in one hour 'Repair Shop' episode about a cello broken by Nazis

The cello had belonged to her late friend, the theatre producer Martin Landau, and had been broken by Nazi guards when he fled to Britain on the Kindertransport aged 14.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Palestine Action vandalizes BBC HQ with fake blood, smashes glass

Photos on the group's Instagram show the BBC sign and the building's walls dripping with red paint, designed to look like blood.

FEBRUARY 18, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Red paint was sprayed over the BBC HQ in the early hours of Monday morning, with workers beginning a clean-up soon after

Former BBC TV director warns network risks becoming Hamas propaganda tool

The BBC has repeatedly reported "appalling false equivalence" between Israeli hostages who are held in inhumane conditions and Palestinian prisoners, Cohen noted.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
BBC New Broadcasting House in London.

Louis Theroux to record new BBC documentary on ‘extreme’ West Bank settlers

The documentary will look at the "fundamentalists" fueling "settler expansionism up close, and the human cost it entails."

FEBRUARY 10, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Documentarian Louis Theroux attends the 25th MOBO Awards in London, Britain November 30, 2022.

Herzog slams BBC for 'false equivalence' of Israeli hostages, Palestinian prisoners

Herzog called for an end to what he described as a “preposterous” narrative that equates Israel’s legal system with Hamas’s brutality.

FEBRUARY 9, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Hamas terrorists force Or Levy, Eli Sharabi and Ohad Ben Ami onstage ahead of their release in Gaza, February 8, 2025.

BBC releases public apology after calling released Israeli hostages ‘prisoners’ on air

"Three Israeli prisoners, all men this time, will be released tomorrow, and then we will see 90 Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli jails,” Schiller said on air.

FEBRUARY 3, 2025ByABIGAIL RUBINSTEIN
(L-R) Ofer Kalderon, Yarden Bibas, and Keith Siegel released from Hamas Captivity, February 1, 2025.

Will the IDF counter the BBC's analysis on strikes in humanitarian zones? - analysis

According to the BBC report, using Hamas Health Ministry and local Gaza reporting data, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in humanitarian zones in 97 separate strikes since May 6, 2024.

JANUARY 15, 2025ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Israeli soldiers seen operating in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, December 12, 2023.

Three hostages to be released on first day of Gaza ceasefire, Palestinian official tells BBC

Israel has agreed to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 190 who have been serving sentences for over a decade and a half. Hamas will release 34 hostages in that specific exchange.

JANUARY 14, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
With an impending hostage deal, protestors outside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv demand that the deal include all of the hostages, now held in captivity for over 450 days.

Anti-Israel activists challenge MET restrictions for London protest near synagogue

The MET announced in a statement that it was imposing conditions on a march to the BBC after discussions with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign about changing the protest route failed.

JANUARY 12, 2025ByMICHAEL STARR
Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in London, in January.

BBC slammed for sourcing Palestinian media with antisemitic, extremist content

Israeli watchdog report accuses BBC of bias for citing Palestinian outlets promoting violence.

JANUARY 11, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
BBC New Broadcasting House in London.

BBC sparks outrage over 'diverse' Syrian Jewish population claim

As of 2022, there were reported to be only four Jews left in Syria, the Jewish Virtual Library said. 

DECEMBER 11, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Screenshot from a BBC broadcast in Syria, December 11, 2024.