Complaint
A viewer complained a report in this programme used the term 鈥淧alestinian Territories鈥 instead of 鈥淧补濒别蝉迟颈苍别鈥 despite the UK Government鈥檚 recognition of its statehood. The ECU considered whether this breached the 91福利社鈥檚 standards of impartiality.
Outcome
The reference came during a report on the death of the Supreme Leader of Iran, and was to 鈥淧alestine Territories鈥. This was not an item on Palestinian statehood, or Israeli Palestinian relations and, in the ECU鈥檚 view, the extent to which anyone would look to this phrase in this context for a definitive position on Palestinian statehood was limited. Nor was language which reflected the reality that significant barriers remain to there being a functioning independent state of Palestine evidence of bias.
Not Upheld