(Sunday Telegraph-UK) Camilla Turner - The BBC breached its own editorial guidelines 1,553 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas war, according to an analysis of the first four months of the BBC's output by a team of 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists led by British lawyer Trevor Asserson. Israel was associated with genocide 14 times more than Hamas in coverage of the conflict. The BBC repeatedly downplayed Hamas terrorism while presenting Israel as a militaristic and aggressive nation. Some journalists used by the BBC in its coverage of the conflict had previously shown sympathy for Hamas and even celebrated its acts of terror. "Hamas members filmed and publicized themselves committing acts which appear to constitute war crimes," the report said, including the taking of hostages, willful killing or murder, torture or inhuman treatment and rape or sexual violence. But despite this, Israel was associated with war crimes four times more than Hamas (127 versus 30), with genocide 14 times more (283 versus 19) and with breaching international law six times more (167 versus 27).
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