The BBC does not have a great track record of reporting on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
It has consistently, over decades, understated the scale of the Israeli’s theft of land and the everyday restrictions on movement that the Palestinians face in their own territory. The Palestinians’ right to use force in self defence and in the search for freedom, enshrined under international law, is also a fact that remains largely unstated in BBC news reports.
So it is interesting that the BBC has finally acknowledged that it did indeed understate the extent of Israel’s occupation in a report by Gavin Esler on Newsnight in January. Whether this means BBC coverage will become more independent of Israel’s position, however, is another matter entirely.
Full story: BBC admits downplaying the scale of Israel’s occupation.