(Telegraph-UK) Anita Singh - The BBC is "institutionally anti-Semitic" and its reporting of the Israel-Hamas war has contributed to attacks on British Jews, former attorney general Sir Michael Ellis told MPs during a Westminster Hall debate. BBC's senior management had "fundamentally failed" to deal with bias in its coverage, and "the relentless bias of BBC News coverage has contributed to the record levels of intimidation and attacks on British Jews." He said some of the BBC's reporting of the conflict suggested "moral equivalence between a democratic state whose leaders are elected by their people...and a genocidal terrorist group that oppresses its people and murders children and civilians." He also cited the BBC's reluctance to refer to Hamas as a terror organization; coverage of pro-Palestinian marches in the UK, which display "an extraordinary disconnect from reality by repeatedly stressing that they are 'mostly peaceful'"; and following Hamas' "cynical" policy of not distinguishing between civilian and combatant casualties in Gaza when giving updates on the number of dead and injured. A Survation poll found that 77% of Jews in Britain believe BBC coverage of the conflict in Gaza is biased against Israel.
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