to Hamas as the “resistance”.
• BBC Arabic platformed one guest who had previously referred to the 7 October massacre as a “heroic military miracle” and another who described Hamas atrocities against innocent Israelis as “necessary”.
• BBC Arabic was forced to purge articles from its website including one that asked whether the Kfar Aza kibbutz atrocities really happened.
• BBC Arabic failed to moderate antisemitic and offensive comments on its YouTube channel and encouraged a discussion about whether the killing of a 79-year-old Israeli woman was “terrorism” or “resistance”.
• The BBC failed to remove graphs from its website that purported to show that 70 per cent of Gazan fatalities were women and children – after those figures were shown to be inaccurate.
• The BBC routinely quoted figures produced by the Hamas Health Ministry without highlighting it as a terrorist-run organisation, and routinely failed to stress in reporting that Hamas fatality figures are unverifiable and include thousands of Hamas terrorists.
• The BBC referred to Hezbollah not as terrorists but as a “heavily armed militant and political movement” in one story, while a BBC News Channel presenter suggested during an interview that Hezbollah terror attacks were in protest over Palestinian deaths.
• The BBC referred to one killed senior Hamas fighter as an “advisor” rather than a terrorist, and portrayed an assassinated Hamas leader as a “moderate” rather than a terrorist under sanction in the US.
• The BBC came under fire for calling Palestinian militants and activists killed in the conflict ‘journalists’. One BBC Arabic article described 69 “journalists” killed in the conflict, while evidence from their social media posts suggest 55 of them either supported Hamas or worked for the terror group.
• The BBC used freelance journalists and eyewitness reports without due diligence on their social media accounts which would have revealed clear anti-Israel bias.
• The BBC was forced to sack one employee who described Jews online as “Nazi apartheid parasites” and called the Holocaust a hoax.
• The BBC failed to sanction high-profile sports presenter Gary Lineker who shared a BDS post calling for Israel to be banned from international sporting events.
• The BBC failed to apologise for wrongly claiming the International Court of Justice had ruled that allegations Israel had committed genocide in Gaza were “plausible”.
• The BBC refused to launch an investigation called for by its own Jewish staff and contributors after extensive broadcasting mistakes and repeated failures of due diligence on sources and guests
• The BBC repeatedly reported Israeli strikes on Hamas command centres based inside school buildings as “strikes on schools” and repeatedly failed to explain the terror group’s use of innocent Palestinians as human shields.
The full report is here.
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