Through analysis of over 11,000 news excerpts from four news outlets, comparing the coverage of mainstream British outlets – the BBC, the Guardian and Sky – with that of Al Jazeera, this April 2026 study found that UK media consistently choose to obscure Israel’s responsibility for crimes committed during the Gaza genocide. Israel was identified as the perpetrator of attacks in only around half of the British news reports analysed, in contrast to nearly 90% of Al Jazeera reports. British outlets were found to rely heavily on the convoluted passive voice when describing Israeli crimes, with BBC coverage using passive tense in nearly 4 out of 5 of the causality reports analysed.

The study also highlights a concerted effort to avoid legal terms like genocide or ethnic cleansing, an over-amplification of the Israeli perspective (with Sky News giving nearly twice as much space to Israelis as to Palestinians), and repeated undermining of the official death toll by regularly attributing the figures to a “Hamas-affiliated” health ministry – even though the UN has found the findings to be credible. 

Read the study findings here.