How Does This Keep Happening to the Beeb?

As a report last year found, the BBC is subsumed by ingrained, systemic anti-Semitism. The Asserson Report analysed the BBC’s coverage during a four-month period beginning Oct 7, 2023. The researchers identified a total of 1,553 breaches of the BBC’s editorial guidelines, which included impartiality, accuracy, editorial values and public interest. The Jew-hating rot went all the way to the top: Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international editor, is accused of excusing Hamas’s terrorist activities.

Worst of all, though, the report found, was the BBC’s Arabic channel. Even in a world that includes Al-Jazeera Arabic, the report singled out BBC Arabic as “one of the most biased of all global media outlets in its treatment of the Israel-Hamas conflict”.

Which should be no surprise, considering who their ‘journalists’ are.

Samer Elzaenen, 33, a regular contributor who reports from the Gaza Strip for BBC Arabic, has been found to have a long history of anti-semitic posts online, according to the Telegraph.

In a post from 2011, Elzaenen reportedly wrote on Facebook: “My message to the Zionist Jews: We are going to take our land back, we love death for Allah’s sake, the same way you love life. We shall burn you as Hitler did, but this time we won’t have a single one of you left.”

More recently, in 2022, he is said to have written: “When things go awry for us, shoot the Jews, it fixes everything.”

No doubt the BBC will defend that as ‘legitimate criticism of Israeli policy’.

BBC Arabic has frequently faced accusations of propping up anti-semitic voices, including when another contributor branded the October 7th attacks as an example of “taking an initiative” and hailed footage of Israeli hostages as a “proud scene”.

The anti-Semitic hatred at the BBC goes well beyond its Arabic channel.

Last year, a top staffer at BBC3 was sacked after she reportedly wrote on social media that Isrealis were a “subcontinental Caucasian invader coloniser species with zero indigenous/blood” and that Jewish people were “Nazi apartheid parasites”.

Last month, the BBC faced calls for an anti-terror investigation after it emerged that it had paid a family member of a high-ranking Hamas official to appear in its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone.

The BBC admitted to paying Abdullah Al-Yazouri, the 14-year-old son of Hamas agricultural minister Dr Ayman Al-Yazouri, who was portrayed as an average civilian despite having familial connections to one of the founders of the Islamic terror group.

As usual, the BBC are all excuses. None of them convincing.

In response to the latest scandal, the BBC noted that contributors are not considered staff members […]

We were not aware of the individuals’ social media activity prior to hearing from them on air.

Sure. Just like they didn’t know that Jimmy Savile was a predatory nonce.