The Independent ran several columns expressing fury about the BBC Trust's ruling that Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen violated ethical guidelines — perhaps because the newspaper itself is guilty of the same sort of inaccurate, advocacy journalism.
The BBC Trust's ruling that its Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen violated the broadcaster's ethical guidelines calling for impartiality and accuracy amplifies concerns that BBC News coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict is largely biased against Israel. 
If one were to depend solely on the BBC for information about the Arab-Israeli conflict, one might understandably come away with the impression that Israel is at the root of all evil in the Middle East. 
BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen paints Arabs as the victims of Israeli expansionist ambitions in his series on the Six-Day-War. BBC's coverage of the Middle East has an underlying text: Israel is at the root of all the region's conflicts. This biased perspective, exhibited in much of BBC's reporting, is institutional.