BBC’s Israel-Hamas Coverage Breached Own Editorial Guidelines Over 1,500 Times According to New Report
variety.comK.J. Yossman A new report compiled by a team of lawyers and data scientists has concluded that the BBC‘s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war shows “widespread anti-Israel bias” and has breached its own editorial guidelines multiple times.
The report analyzed the BBC’s English and Arabic-language coverage from the first four months of the conflict, which began on Oct.
7 when Hamas terrorists stormed across the border into Israel, murdering thousands of people and taking hundreds more hostage.
Output was analyzed across all platforms including television, radio, podcast and the BBC’s websites. In a random sample of 253 interviews conducted by the BBC’s Arabic service, the report also found that over a quarter “were connected to Hamas or another terrorist group or had posted extreme antisemitic views online.” However these facts were not disclosed to the audience alongside the interviews.
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