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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/21/bbc-arabic-gaza-israel-hamas-war-media-impartiality/
Impartiality Breaches at BBC Arabic Occurred So Often They Almost Look Deliberate
(Telegraph-UK) Danny Cohen - The BBC's royal charter contains a commitment to impartiality. Yet the Israel-Hamas war has seen the BBC fail to deliver on this crucial test on more occasions than can be explained away as "errors" or bad luck. Since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, BBC Arabic has been forced to make 80 corrections to its reporting. Mistakes don't happen 80 times. The failures of impartiality have included BBC reporters describing Hamas terrorists as "the resistance," as well as labeling attacks which targeted and killed civilians as "resistance operations." It's the language you would hear from a Hamas spokesman. An episode of the BBC Arabic program "Trending" questioned whether the Kfar Aza kibbutz massacre on Oct. 7 actually happened. How is it possible that editorial standards at BBC Arabic had fallen so low that this was seen as legitimate reporting? The BBC continues to employ people who actually celebrated the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, including Sally Nabil and Sanaa Khouri. This means that our license fees are paying the wages of people who celebrated the rape and slaughter of men, women and children. If any other publicly funded organization supported terrorist sympathizers, the outcry would be enormous. The writer was the director of BBC Television from 2013 until 2015.