Over one month on from the publication of the report concerning BBC coverage of the first eleven months of the war between Israel and Hamas which was compiled and edited by Danny Cohen, the BBC has yet to provide an official response.
In the meantime, an update to that report has been published and can be read here.
“On 30 September 2024, Britain’s leading Jewish organisations came together to endorse a report highlighting anti-Israel bias in the BBC’s coverage of the Israel/ Hamas war and to call for an independent inquiry.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council and the Community Security Trust endorsed the report. It was compiled and edited by the BBC’s former Director of Television Danny Cohen, and concluded the BBC was “institutionally hostile to Israel”.
Sir Ephraim Mirvis, the Chief Rabbi, said the report recorded “the repeated and longstanding failure to ensure impartial and accurate news coverage of the existential war that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts”.
In the months following the damning report’s publication, Israel marked the one year anniversary of the terror attack by Hamas which left 1,200 people dead and saw 251 taken hostage – of which 101 are still being held captive in Gaza. The country fought back against Hezbollah in the north and endured a ballistic missile attack from Iran as well as a terrorist attacks on its own streets.
However, the BBC has continued to portray Israel as the aggressor, to parrot Hamas lines about casualty figures without qualification, to platform guests with extreme antisemitic views and to allow claims of ‘genocide’ to go unchallenged.
Increasingly it appears that the BBC newsroom is out of control, with its management unable to maintain the standards expected by our national broadcaster.”
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Grimey is correct – but will their be any action by the Government Press Office which issues the BBC Press Credentials – I have tried for many months with the responsible Ministers and Head of the GPO – total blank response or action