Mick Hartley

David Collier – the journalist who broke the story about that BBC Gaza documentary – has another piece today on the Beeb and its Gaza coverage…This is what terrorist propaganda looks like:

Just a few weeks after the BBC were forced to take down a documentary because of Hamas family ties to the narrator – the BBC anti-Israel factory has churned out another classic.

In this latest example, the BBC disgracefully whitewash two terrorist families in order to portray Israel as bloodthirsty child killers. It is a classic antisemitic smear.

The BBC article in question covered Israel’s renewed attack on Gaza a few days ago. The Hamas propaganda arm works quickly, and following the attacks the news channels became full of claims of hundreds of dead – with an emphasis as always on children…

The BBC cannot help itself – and taking its cues from news channels that support the ‘resistance’, it jumped swiftly into action. The end product was a piece written by Jon Donnison that relied on two grieving fathers – both with children who were killed in the Israeli strikes.

Jon Donnison, has a long history of ‘missteps‘ when it comes to reporting on Israel. And this piece is a classic of its type:

• • It is driven by the ignorance and anti-Israel bias of the journalist
  • The article makes important factual errors (which always lean towards demonising Israel)
  • Focuses on grieving parents and dead children (to break everyone’s heart)
  • And then lays the blame for all of the death and destruction on Israel (so people can be sure where to point their anger)

The truth, as Collier goes on to demonstrate, is that the BBC presented this as a case of two innocent and grieving families torn apart by Israeli army thuggery, when in fact these were two terrorist households precisely targeted by the IDF. 

The BBC even let one father talk about how the children wanted to grow up to be doctors. The Hamas PR agency could not have scripted it any better. The BBC may just as well be spokespeople for the Gazan terrorists.

Too many red lines have been crossed. It goes way beyond just the BBC – and it is spreading poison deep into the veins of British society. We need an urgent independent inquiry set up NOW to investigate just how deeply our own media organisations have been turned into propaganda arms of radical Islamic terror groups.