To produce a documentary about a peace movement which only shows pain, suffering, and trauma on one side, and lays all agency, responsibility, and violence at the feet of the other, is a narrative decision which fails catastrophically in the BBC’s commitment to impartiality and accuracy.
In Graham-Harris’ Guardian-style narrative, only Israelis are the “extremists” and peace “obstructionists,” not Hamas, whose refusal to disarm is intentionally obfuscated by the writer’s use of passive language.
The idea that Jews are collectively responsible for the actions of Israel, or that Jews are ultimately responsible for bigotry that they experience, is not a position the BBC should be lending its considerable credibility to, on any day, let alone on Holocaust Memorial Day.
A recent Guardian article adheres to the outlet’s propagandistic formula of promoting incendiary accusations against Israel concerning Gaza’s healthcare that don’t withstand even minimal critical scrutiny.
Even in light of the additional evidence of UNRWA cooperation with terrorist organizations that has accumulated over the past two years, BBC journalists are apparently still not embarrassed by the corporation’s policy of uncritical amplification of that organization’s talking points and its failure to investigate UNRWA’s terror links.
The Guardian publicized an extremist NGO's false claims that an Israeli comedian participated in the destruction of a Gaza mosque. If the journalist had done any fact-checking, she would have discovered his reserve service consisted of performing comedy for IDF troops.
CNN has been quick to note it can’t independently verify death tolls in Iran. But when it comes to Gaza, the network has no problem reporting casualty figures from Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.
In less than five minutes, Jeremy Bowen misrepresented the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and one of its founders, erased Hamas ceasefire violations, omitted key context on IDF activity in Gaza and the details of Trump’s Twenty Point Plan, and left listeners with almost no information on the Board of Peace but a clear impression of arbitrary Israeli cruelty.
The Financial Times, according to its own Editorial Code, must distinguish between comment, conjecture, and fact. Yet two recent news articles grossly failed to do that, characterizing the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as having "failed" as a matter of fact.
