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Baroness Ruth Deech. (CC BY 3.0/ House of Lords)
December 25, 2025, 7:54 am
UK parliamentarian: BBC coverage of Israel is so ‘distorted,’ only bottom-up change can help
Ruth Deech, who served on the public broadcaster’s board of governors, says staff have an ‘absolute obsession’ with the Jewish state, but little training or historical knowledge
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative photo of podcasters. (Fenton Roman/iStock by Getty Images)
September 18, 2025, 1:57 am
Podcasts, going off-script, now fertile ground for antisemitic sophistry, critics warn
As long-form podcasts and other types of alternative media bring Holocaust denial and anti-Zionist revisionism to fresh audiences, a newcomer to the field aims to correct the record
By Luke Tress
In this May 7, 1933 photo, Adolf Hitler speaks to 30,000 uniformed Nazi storm troopers at Kiel, Germany. (AP Photo/ File)
April 24, 2025, 4:05 am
AP controversially kept photojournalists in Nazi Germany. But is that the whole picture?
The self-styled impartial media outlet investigated itself for its actions while operating within Hitler’s dictatorship during WWII. The probe inspired new book ‘Newshawks in Berlin’
By Rich Tenorio
This screenshot from the trailer for 'Gaza: How to Survive A War Zone' shows narrator Abdullah Al-Yazouri, whose father is a Hamas deputy minister. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 7, 2025, 7:06 am
UK journalist who blew whistle on BBC Gaza documentary: ‘I caught them in bed with Hamas’
David Collier, who swiftly revealed the film’s narrator to be ‘Hamas royalty,’ believes the episode could be a turning point for an outlet perennially accused of anti-Israel bias
By Bart Schut
Palestinians pray over the bodies of people killed in an Israeli army strike against Hamas in the Nuseirat refugee camp, at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, December 12, 2024. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)
December 15, 2024, 9:50 am
UK think tank: Gaza death toll inflated to defame Israel for targeting civilians
Hamas figures appear to include thousands who died of natural causes, Henry Jackson Society finds, accusing international media of being too quick to accept terror group’s numbers
By ToI Staff
Protesters hold placards and wave Israeli flags as they take part in a 'Rape is NOT resistance' demonstration outside the BBC headquarters, in London, on February 4, 2024, to bring attention to the plight of kidnapped Israeli women in Gaza. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
September 8, 2024, 2:02 pm
BBC breached own guidelines 1,500 times in early Gaza war coverage, report claims
Using AI to analyze 9 million words of coverage from first four months of war, researchers find Israel was associated with war crimes, genocide far more often than Hamas was
By ToI Staff
A Guardian front page from October 18, 2023 (via X)
March 10, 2024, 3:36 pm
Grotesque cartoons to allegations of genocide: How the UK’s Guardian portrays Israel
The center-left daily with a growing global reach has strayed far from its early pro-Zionism and today accuses Israel of murdering Palestinian journalists, among other charges
By Robert Philpot
Protesters display the names and photographs of journalists who have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, near Place de la Republique in Paris, on November 11, 2023. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
November 11, 2023, 11:36 pm
750 global journalists say media should cast Israeli actions as ‘genocide, apartheid’
In petition, former and current reporters blast IDF, claim it targets media personnel; allege global coverage of conflict ignores Palestinian, Muslim voices
By Michael Horovitz
Protesters hold placards and Israeli flags outside the headquarters of the BBC in London on October 16, 2023, to appeal to the corporation to call Hamas 'terrorists.' (Daniel Leal / AFP)
November 3, 2023, 10:06 am
The BBC is under fire for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war – rightly so
The outlet whose founder famously pledged to ‘educate, inform and entertain’ risks its reputation as the most trusted international news provider globally
By Robert Philpot
Screen capture from a Public Diplomacy Ministry video against foreign media bias, June 2023. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 29, 2023, 10:12 am
‘Fight the fake’: Public Diplomacy Ministry video warns against foreign media
Clip cites examples from CNN, urges casting critical eye on information from major outlets; takes issue with wording and punctuation, e.g., using quote marks on ‘terrorists’
By ToI Staff
Israel's Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism and Delegitimization Noa Tishby appears on Fox News on June 14, 2022. (Screen capture/YouTube)
June 15, 2022, 6:29 pm
Israeli antisemitism envoy: Conservatives, like Israel, are mistreated by media
Noa Tishby’s ‘eyes get as big as saucers’ as Fox News panelists raise allegation press downplayed Pelosi’s husband’s DUI, claims ‘mainstream media’ ignored plot to kill Kavanaugh
By ToI Staff
Singer Michael Ben David performs on behalf of Israel during the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 12, 2022 at the Pala Alpitour venue in Turin. (Marco Bertorello / AFP)
May 17, 2022, 5:54 pm
Israel’s Eurovision contestant accuses media of antisemitism
Michael Ben David says journalists refused to interview him; however, press conferences during the finals are held only for qualifying contestants — which he was not
By Michael Horovitz
Gabriel Pais outside the Israeli mission to Belgium, the UN, and NATO in his hometown of Brussels. (Courtesy)
January 3, 2020, 6:51 am
Belgian 13-year-old takes European media to task, starts Israel advocacy group
In 6 weeks, Gabriel Pais’s videos have gotten tens of thousands of views on his new organization’s Facebook page. His goal: To play outside without the need for a military escort
By Yaakov Schwartz
The Guardian offices in London (CC-BY WordRidden, Flickr)
January 23, 2019, 10:38 am
Israel lambasts The Guardian for accusing it of ‘killing with impunity’
UK paper’s blistering editorial is an exercise in ‘cheap moralizing,’ deliberately ignores Palestinian violence, Foreign Ministry says
By Raphael Ahren
Avital Leibovich
May 16, 2018, 2:15 pm
Avital Leibovich
Don’t confuse me with the facts on Gaza
News reports called the border violence a Palestinian protest against the US embassy move. It wasn’t
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