November 10, 2025 – Two top BBC officials resigned on Sunday after an internal memo admonished the broadcaster for ignoring “serious and systematic problems” brought to the attention of BBC executives. The Telegraph published a copy of the memo days before the resignations were announced.
Among several categories of misreporting highlighted by the memo was the broadcaster’s misreporting of the Israel-Hamas war, and in particular BBC Arabic’s anti-Israel, pro-Hamas coverage. The memo’s discussion of BBC Arabic cited the Telegraph’s coverage last April of damning research by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA).
In response to the resignations, CAMERA CEO Kurt Schwartz said: “CAMERA hopes that the BBC will seize this opportunity for meaningful change in its reporting on Israel and the Middle East. After years of documenting the BBC’s anti-Israel bias and failure to adhere to even minimum standards of fairness, balance, and journalistic ethics, CAMERA urges the BBC to chart a new course in its reporting and coverage. Its funding public deserves better.
“CAMERA also continues to demand a parliamentary inquiry, with real investigative powers, into BBC coverage of Israel in both English and Arabic. The Corporation’s track record when it comes to internal investigations, which is yet another instance of it ‘marking its own homework,’ is unlikely to yield useful results.”