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The BBC faces significant scrutiny for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict following a report authored by Danny Cohen, the broadcaster’s former director of television. The 60-page report argues that the BBC has “serious questions to answer” due to alleged repeated inaccuracies in its reporting of the ongoing war. Cohen, who held his position from 2013 to 2015, assembled the report based on research conducted by CAMERA U.K. and CAMERA Arabic, branches of the U.S.-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA).

 

Alongside Baroness Ruth Deech, a former BBC governor and House of Lords member, Cohen co-wrote the report’s foreword, asserting that while errors can occur in journalism, the BBC’s “mistakes” consistently exhibit an anti-Israel bias. “The ‘mistakes’ are almost always in the anti-Israel direction,” they argue. They suggest that for Israel and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), even concrete evidence often proves insufficient, while Hamas rarely has its claims rigorously scrutinized.

 

The report details numerous alleged instances of inaccurate reporting on Israel’s actions in the conflict. It accuses the BBC of broadcasting “false and damaging claims about Israel’s conduct of this war” and producing what it describes as “misleading broadcasts and social media output.” It further references a separate study from earlier in the month by a group of lawyers and data scientists, which found that the BBC had violated its editorial standards over 1,500 times in its coverage of Israel, pointing to a pattern of “widespread anti-Israel bias.”

 

The report also notes recent controversies involving the BBC’s handling of antisemitism. In June, more than 100 Jewish creatives signed an open letter accusing the BBC of double standards in its response to antisemitic remarks made by one of its contributors, following the BBC’s decision not to pursue any action. 

 

In response, the report recommends an independent inquiry into the BBC’s reporting practices related to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The complete findings and analysis by Cohen are available in the published report.

 

Based on a report from Variety 2024-10-26

 

 

 

 

 

[The Old Bull]

The press seems to believe that if you criticize Israel then you are pro- Palestinian or if you criticize Palestine you are pro-Israeli. In my eyes both sides are bad and so are the people that supply them with weapons.

[watchdog2]

"anti Israel bias":   what a bunch of b.s..    nowhere in the mainstream media can you find that bias.   stop the hasbara deluge!

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, watchdog2 said:

"anti Israel bias":   what a bunch of b.s..    nowhere in the mainstream media can you find that bias.   stop the hasbara deluge!

The report is from the Daily Telegraph, also reported in the Guardian, the Times and others......lol

[Bday Prang]

in the early days of the conflict, the BBC refused to refer to hamas as terrorists, enough said