Five-year BBC Intifada backgrounder fail and still counting

Clearly, this BBC backgrounder contributes nothing to audience understanding of the second intifada and the fact that it has remained online for over five years whilst promoting such major inaccuracies indicates that the BBC’s system of checks and balances is sorely lacking.

Hadar Sela..
BBC Watch..
29 September '13..

On Friday September 27th 2013 violent demonstrations (unreported by the BBC, as was a rocket attack that same night) took place in several locations in Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and Judea & Samaria as Palestinians marked the 13th anniversary of the beginning of the second intifada. Several Israelis were injured.

A BBC audience member searching for information regarding the second Intifada on the corporation’s website would – among other items – come across an article titled “2000: Second intifada” which forms part of the BBC’s “Israel Timeline”.

That article is dated May 6th 2008, meaning that for almost five and a half years users of the BBC’s website have been mistakenly informed that:

“By 2000, a second intifada was being openly fought and Israel re-occupied the West Bank.”

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