BBC World Service radio programme claims Israel ‘carved out of Palestinian land’ - by Hadar Sela

...That inaccurate and materially misleading information is all the more troubling coming, as it does, in what claims to be a history programme. BBC Watch has submitted a complaint to the BBC World Service highlighting the need for a speedy on-air correction.

Hadar Sela..
BBC Watch..
23 August '17..

The August 7th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘The History Hour’ included an item (from 26:40 here) about the Camp David Summit that had already been aired several days previously on the same station’s other history show ‘Witness’ and was discussed here.

In his introduction to that item, presenter Max Pearson told worldwide listeners: [emphasis added]

Pearson: “But before that we’re going to focus on a region which has seen tension and violence for the past 70 years. Just the phrase ‘tension in the Middle East’ has become shorthand for referencing the decades of mistrust between Jews and Arabs following the creation of the State of Israel, carved – as it was – out of land which had belonged to the Palestinians.

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