Newshour: Is Labour anti-semitic?

yesterday evening (thursday 11th), 9.51-9.59pm, on bbc world service radio

newshour (presented by tim franks) concludes with …

“Labour and its leader have not been coming out well in opinion polls. That may be in part to what some have seen as an equivocal confusing approach to Brexit, but undoubtedly a long-running controversy over the Party’s handling of internal anti-semitism has also tarnished Labour.”

including contributions from …

• ben westerman, investigator, disputes team, 2016-2017

• sam matthews, chief investigator, disputes team, 2017-2018

• tom watson mp

• bbc reporter rob watson 

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Newshour: Peace tunnel

this afternoon (thursday 4th), 2.24-2.29pm (repeated 9.40pm), on bbc world service radio

newshour (presented by dan damon) includes …

“Wielding a hammer, ambassador David Friedman smashed through an underground wall to open a controversial Jewish archaeological centre in East Jerusalem.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell

• jawad sayam of silwan, former director of the wadi hilweh information centre

• hagit ofran, director, settlement watch project, peace now

• jason greenblatt, us special envoy to the middle east

Newshour: Bahrain conference

this afternoon (wednesday 26th), 2.40-2.45pm (following repeat of report from last week), on bbc world service radio

newshour (presented by paul henley) includes …

“How is the conference going, given that the people who are being discussed, the Palestinians, are boycotting it?”

including interview with …

• faisal abbas of arab news

Newshour/Twt: US plan

yesterday evening (tuesday 25th), 9.07-9.19pm on bbc world service radio, and 10.03-10.04pm and 10.18-10.25pm on bbc radio 4

newshour (presented by tim franks) and the world tonight (presented by ritula shah) include …

“White House officials say they’re unmoved by that show of intransigence: they’re interested instead in appealing to ordinary Palestinians keen to improve their parlous economic prospects.”

including contributions from …

 • david makovsky, director of the washington institute for near east policy projecton the middle east peace process

• prime minister mohammad shtayyeh

• analyst jon lerner

Twt: Terrorist salaries

yesterday evening (thursday 20th), 10.37-10.42pm, on bbc radio 4 (repeated 9.24pm friday on newshour on bbc world service radio)

the world tonight (presented by james coomarasamy) includes …

”Eighteen years ago, ambulances rushed to the bloody scene of a Hamas suicide bombing. Fifteen people were killed, a hundred and thirty injured, at a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem. The militants who planned it were later jailed by Israel, and over the years they have been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in Palestinian Prisoner salaries.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell

• arnold roth, father of suicide bomb victim

• charly mansour, hospital technician, bethlehem

• ali radaideh, son of palestinian prisoner 

Newshour: Saeb Erekat

this afternoon (thursday 20th), 2.36-2.45pm, on bbc world service radio

newshour (presented by razia iqbal) includes …

“Why are Palestinian officials boycotting the Bahrain summit?”

including interview with …

• saeb erekat

Newshour: Palestinian museum

this evening (saturday 15th), 9.24-9.28pm, on bbc world service radio

newshour (presented by julian marshall) includes …

“There are reckoned to be just under 73,000 Americans of Palestinian descent living in the United States. They’re one of the smaller groups of Arab-Americans, but their profile, along with that of the millions of other Palestinians elsewhere in the world, could be raised with the opening today in Washington DC of the Musuem of the Palestinian People.

including interview with …

• bshara nassar, museum founder and director