The BBC employs a double standard against Israel. It uses terms like "occupied" and "illegal" to describe Israeli control of the West Bank. Comparable situation elsewhere are described as "disputed."
A BBC piece criticized Israel for sanctioning two radical Arab-Israeli political parties. Yet the BBC failed to update readers that these parties opposed the Arab States' designating Hizbullah a terrorist organization.
The BBC broadcast misleading statements provided by a pro-Palestinian NGO to portray Israel as illegally evicting a Palestinian woman and seizing her property in Jerusalem before the UK Parliament.
Coverage of Israel and the Palestinians has long been bedeviled by misinformation peddled by major media sources. An erroneous story claiming Israel banned a politically controversial book is such a case.
Why does the BBC call violent Jewish perpetrators "terrorists" but does not refer to more frequent Palestinian perpetrators as terrorists? Because the Palestinian Authority doesn't refer to Palestinian perpetrators as terrorists.
This year, the media have blundered all too many times in reporting on the Middle East. There were, unfortunately, countless potential "winners," but after careful consideration, CAMERA has identified the media's ten biggest bungles.