The BBC is at it once again
The BBC has a long history of publishing anti-Israel reports.
Early on in the Gaza war, they accused Israel’s armed forces of carrying out summary executions. They were later forced to publish an apology to the effect that “we had not made sufficient effort to seek corroborating evidence to justify reporting the Hamas claim”.
The BBC is notorious for shoddy reporting. On October 17, 2023, the courtyard of the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in the Gaza Strip was hit by a rocket. The Gaza Health Ministry announced that 471 people had been killed and 342 wounded.
While The IDF blamed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the BBC at the time questioned its statement indicating that “There appeared to be an inconsistency in the Israeli briefing regarding where the rocket they believed caused the blast was fired from”.
Indeed, its correspondent, Jon Donnison, went so far as to tell viewers that “It’s hard to see what else this could be really given the size of the explosion other than an Israeli air strike or several air strikes”.
Only later did the BBC admit that it had been wrong to speculate. The UK’s former culture secretary Nadine Dorries accused the BBC of being a “propagandist” for Hamas, while Home Office minister Robert Jenrick said the BBC’s reporting was “like a 21st century blood libel”.
Looking online today, the BBC’s main story about the Israel/Palestinian conflict concerns “Gaza children dying as they wait for Israel to enable evacuations”. Once again, the finger is pointed against the Jewish State.
There was no reference to the fact that Hamas has failed to carry out its obligations under the cease fire agreement, which included the return of the bodies of Israelis being held hostage in Gaza since October 2023, or the fact that Hamas was carrying out summary executions of its opponents in a square in Gaza City.
In all fairness, the BBC did report elsewhere that “three men (had been) pushed to the ground and shot several times in the back of the head”, but it did not miss the opportunity to repeat ad nauseam its claim that “At least 65,344 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza … according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.”
The BBC once again faithfully reported the Hamas Health Ministry’s figures even though Hamas has been designated by the UK as a terrorist organization and the BBC should know by now that Hamas lies through its teeth.
Will the BBC ever learn, or will it continue to be a “propagandist for Hamas”?