CAMERA has published a special report titled “BBC Arabic: News or Propaganda” which addresses over four years of content produced by that branch of the BBC World Service.
“BBC Arabic is a foreign language service that broadcasts 24 hours a day from London and Cairo to the Middle East, across TV, radio and online.
It is the BBC World Service’s largest, most heavily funded and most influential foreign-language service. It is part funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and reaches a weekly audience of 38 million people across the Arab-speaking world.
Far from embedding the values of the BBC, BBC Arabic has become synonymous with toxic hostility against Israel and, at times, anti-Jewish racism. It has given a platform to murderous terrorists, presented apologists for terror as independent ‘experts’, allowed extreme views to go unchallenged in interviews and echoed the language of Hamas.
It has subjected Israeli guests to biased and hostile questioning, downplayed attacks on Israelis and failed to swiftly remove antisemitic comments posted online.
BBC Arabic staff who posted in support of the barbaric rape, murder and kidnap of innocent men, women and children on 7 October 2023 continue to work for the organisation.
This document charts four years under Tim Davie’s leadership in which senior executives and the BBC Board have failed to stamp out the extraordinary bias within BBC Arabic despite repeated demands for change.”
“Kemi Badenoch has called for “wholesale reform” of the BBC Arabic channel after a report accused it of “appalling antisemitism and anti-Israel bias”.
The Conservative leader wrote to Tim Davie, the director-general, to set out concerns about the World Service channel on Friday, weeks after warning that her party will withdraw its support for the licence fee if the BBC fails to tackle her concerns about bias. […]
Badenoch’s letter came after a report from the media watchdog the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (Camera), which accused the channel of “anti-Israel bias, toxic antisemitism and the promotion of Hamas propaganda”.
The 33-page report covers claims spanning four years, including providing a “platform to terrorists”, presenting apologists as independent “experts” and allowing extreme views to go unchallenged in interviews. It also accused BBC Arabic of echoing Hamas language.”
The full report can be found here.
The BBC is not an impartial broadcaster, it’s a propaganda outfit for state actors in the West who are allied with radical Islam. We have to stop being naive about this, before another October 7 style massacre happens in the West. https://freedomradio.substack.com/p/yes-the-bbc-is-a-deep-state-organisation