Over 100 BBC employees accuse broadcaster of pro-Israel bias
The letter accused the BBC of failing to provide “consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza.”
Signatories demanded that the BBC include in every article that “Israel does not give external journalists access to Gaza; making it clear when there is insufficient evidence to back up Israeli claims; making clear where Israel is the perpetrator in article headlines; including regular historical context predating October 2023; and robustly challenging Israeli government and military representatives in all interviews.”
“I have never, in my entire career, witnessed such low levels of staff confidence,” a staffer told the British newspaper. “I have colleagues who have left the BBC in recent months because they just don’t believe our reporting on Israel and Palestine is honest. So many of us feel paralyzed by the levels of fear.”
“Palestinians are always treated as an unreliable source, and we constantly give Israel’s version of events primacy despite the IDF’s well-documented track record of lying,” another staffer said. “We often seem to prefer to leave Israel out of the headline if at all possible or cast doubt on who could be to blame for airstrikes. The verification level expected for anything related to Gaza hugely outweighs the norm for other countries.”
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-827210