Leah Benoz

The BBC’s Hugo Bachega Has a Near-Miss with The Point

The BBC's Hugo Bachega comes close to accurately reporting on Hezbollah's cynical exploitation of Lebanon, but uses framing and carefully chosen interviews to revert back to a one-sided narrative of Israeli responsibility

Silenced No More? Why Did the BBC Bury the Civil Commission Report

The BBC limited its reporting on the findings of the Civil Commission to a few sentences in the middle of the night, effectively burying the horrific realities, while choosing to focus on the possibility of the death penalty for the terrorists responsible.

BBC Double Standards on Display at Eurovision

In all the noise surrounding Israel at Eurovision, the BBC never asks one fundamental question: Could it be that ordinary voters at home don't possess an obsessive hatred of Israel and care mainly about which song they like?

BBC Newscast Plays Good Jew, Bad Jew with Golders Green Attacks

Rather than exploring the root causes of this epidemic of hate against British Jews, presenters Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell leaned into an unacceptable trope we have called out here before, namely, that some Jews might be responsible for harm committed against them.

Two diplomats, two interviews: a BBC case study

Two different interviews, one with a Pakistani diplomat and one with an Israeli diplomat, showcase how the BBC uses language and framing to construct a narrative. This allows the corporation to purport to show both sides of a conflict, while presenting those sides in a way to whitewash one and vilify the other.