The reason the legacy media so furiously hate independent media like the Good Oil, Avi Yemini or Rukshan Fernando, is because we just keep showing them up. After all, without the benefit of a journalism degree or cadetship, Rukshan simply took to the streets with his video camera and documented what was happening. Without commentary, just the facts: the essence of hard news reporting.
Which is not to say that everyone with a camera and an internet connection will be a great independent journalist, but anyone can be.
To really rub salt into the dying legacy media’s wound, intrepid civilian investigators keep exposing their lies and fake news. People like Jewish Briton David Collier. With just an internet connection and five hours’ work, Collier exposed what legacy media behemoth the BBC either failed to... or deliberately tried to hide.
Five hours is all it took for Collier to uncover that the narrator and main subject of a major BBC ‘documentary’ was the son of a high-ranking Hamas terrorist.
Collier’s discovery has led to the film’s removal from streaming and ignited a very public crisis at the media outlet, long regarded as the gold standard for international journalism.
Now, longstanding accusations of the BBC’s anti-Israel bias have once again come to the fore in light of Collier’s work.
“Accusations”? It’s not even a matter of serious dispute: the BBC is doing nothing to hide it. Whether it’s praising a Hamas goon as a ‘respected photojournalist’, or breaching its own editorial guidelines 1500 times, there’s no disguising that the BBC is resolutely anti-Israel.
“I’m just one guy with a computer in north London,” says Collier in an interview with the Times of Israel, pointing out that despite its vast, taxpayer-funded resources, the broadcasting giant didn’t manage to do its due diligence.
Getting to the truth behind the documentary – which follows several children in Gaza over a period of months – was not entirely without risk, says Collier.
“I did a deep dive with Google, but software doesn’t like it when you reverse image children – and rightly so,” he says.
Nonetheless, it took Collier just hours to find out that Abdullah’s father is Dr Ayman Al-Yazouri, a Hamas deputy agriculture minister.
Like Australia’s own ABC, the BBC relies on a roster of Hamas terrorists – they just don’t want anyone to notice.
Production company Hoyo Films and the BBC omitted this, along with the fact that one girl in the film is the daughter of a Gaza police captain who Collier describes as a “Hamas enforcer.” Another child brandished an AK-47 assault rifle while posing next to a Hamas terrorist, while the documentary’s two cameramen displayed a clear anti-Israel bias on their social media accounts.
It’s become so bad that even the Starmer government is raising an eyebrow.
Opposition politicians, including the staunchly pro-Israel MP Suella Braverman and the Conservative leader in Westminster Kemi Badenoch, are demanding consequences – but they are not the only such voices.
The governing Labour Party’s Culture Minister Lisa Nandy echoed her own concerns about who within the BBC knew what and when, and has demanded that an investigation “leave no stone unturned.”
But leaving stones firmly unturned is what the BBC does. Just ask Jimmy Savile’s multitude of victims.
The next question is: did the BBC use taxpayers’ money to fund anti-Semitic terrorism?
Anti-terror police are investigating whether money paid by Hoyo Films to Abdullah’s family ended up with Hamas, which the British government has designated as a terrorist organization. The documentary cost £400,000 ($515,000) to produce, and the BBC is entirely funded by taxpayers.
The broadcasting company has apologized profusely in an unprecedented statement, with chairman Samir Shah calling the affair “a really, really bad moment” and “a dagger to the heart of the BBC claim to be impartial and trustworthy.”
But the pro-Hamas bias went a lot further than just relying on Hamas kiddies and funneling money to the terror group.
The makers also deliberately mistranslated the Arabic to make it appear to the British viewer that Palestinian terrorists in Gaza are not driven by racial or religious hatred. Where “Jews” was used in Arabic, “Israelis” appears in the subtitles. In addition, the word “jihad” was removed from translations.
“After 20 years of bias, British Jews hate the BBC,” says Collier.
And, clearly, the BBC hates Jews.
