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Druze and Syria analyst for BBC called Zionism ‘pure evil’

Robin Yassin-Kassab lashed out at Israel’s attempt to ‘create chaos’ in Syria during his World Service interview

By JC Reporter

3 min read

July 20, 2025 10:36

Robin Yassin-Kassab (Screenshot: YouTube)

By Stephen Pollard

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

As Hillel Neuer dryly put it: ‘It’s really important that we are clear that BBC News has a pro-terrorist wing, and a completely separate wing that are just idiots’

2 min read

July 17, 2025 14:07

Head of BBC News Deborah Turness poses for photographs at the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque, marking the home of BBC executive Grace Wyndham Goldie, one of the only female executives at the BBC in the 1930s. (Image: Getty)

Leaked recording shows BBC News CEO defending ‘inaccurate’ Gaza documentary

Deborah Turness appeared to attempt to draw a distinction between Hamas’ military and political wings after it emerged that the film’s narrator was the son of an official in the terror group’s government in Gaza

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

July 17, 2025 12:34

The CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, was recorded defending the corporation's controversial documentary on Gaza, despite its own head of complaints ruling that the film violated accuracy rules (Image: Getty)

By David Hirsh

In the UK, antisemitism is now mainstream. Is it reversible?

Once whispered on the fringes, antisemitism now parades through Britain’s institutions in plain sight from Goldsmiths to Glastonbury

4 min read

July 16, 2025 09:46

By The JC Leader

What kind of country has Britain become?

The normalisation of Jew-hatred among the British middle class is an assault on the very foundations of our civilisation.

3 min read

July 15, 2025 15:51

What kind of country has Britain become?

Ofcom open investigation into BBC Gaza documentary narrated by Hamas official’s son

The new probe was announced after the BBC’s own independent review found ‘no breach’ of its impartiality rules

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

July 15, 2025 09:23

Ofcom has announced an investigation into the BBC's Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone documentary (Image: Getty)

BBC Gaza documentary narrated by son of Hamas official could return after investigation finds ‘no breach’ of impartiality rules

The corporation said it remains ‘keen to tell the stories of those featured’ in the film, despite its chair calling the resulting row a ‘dagger to the heart’ of its reputation

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

July 14, 2025 11:47

The BBC has indicated that its controversial documentary about Gaza, which was found to be narrated by the son of a Hamas official, could return to the iPlayer in an edited form (Image: Getty)

BBC investigation finds ‘no breach’ of impartiality rules over Gaza documentary narrated by son of Hamas official

The probe found that the film violated guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose the teen’s family links to terror, but that no other rules were broken

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

July 14, 2025 11:21

A report into the BBC's airing of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the corporation did not breach its impartiality requirements (Image: Getty)

By Tanya Gold

Channel 4’s ‘Gaza: Doctors under attack’ is an assault on journalism

Billed as a ‘forensic investigation’, the documentary is a typical piece of activism journalism, filled with elusions and incomplete truths wrapped in the ponderous score of a horror film

3 min read

July 8, 2025 12:31

The surgery wing of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza (Image: Channel 4/Basement Films)

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BBC backtracks on claim that Gazan cancer patient ‘died of malnutrition’

Jason Isaacs to front appeal for Holocaust education charity

BBC Arabic interviewed Palestinian singer who appeared to defend Bibas kidnappers

Gary Lineker says he’s not ‘antisemitic’ but ‘anti-child killing’

BBC calls terror group founder jailed over two murders a ‘pro-Palestine convict’

BBC ‘stands by’ Jeremy Bowen over claim there is ‘clear evidence’ of Israeli ‘war crimes’

The West ignores the massacre of Syria’s Druze – and libels Israel instead

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Druze and Syria analyst for BBC called Zionism ‘pure evil’

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What kind of country has Britain become?

Ofcom open investigation into BBC Gaza documentary narrated by Hamas official’s son

BBC Gaza documentary narrated by son of Hamas official could return after investigation finds ‘no breach’ of impartiality rules

BBC investigation finds ‘no breach’ of impartiality rules over Gaza documentary narrated by son of Hamas official

Channel 4’s ‘Gaza: Doctors under attack’ is an assault on journalism

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BBC backtracks on claim that Gazan cancer patient ‘died of malnutrition’

Jason Isaacs to front appeal for Holocaust education charity

BBC Arabic interviewed Palestinian singer who appeared to defend Bibas kidnappers

Gary Lineker says he’s not ‘antisemitic’ but ‘anti-child killing’

BBC calls terror group founder jailed over two murders a ‘pro-Palestine convict’

BBC ‘stands by’ Jeremy Bowen over claim there is ‘clear evidence’ of Israeli ‘war crimes’

The West ignores the massacre of Syria’s Druze – and libels Israel instead

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Druze and Syria analyst for BBC called Zionism ‘pure evil’

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

Leaked recording shows BBC News CEO defending ‘inaccurate’ Gaza documentary

In the UK, antisemitism is now mainstream. Is it reversible?

What kind of country has Britain become?

Ofcom open investigation into BBC Gaza documentary narrated by Hamas official’s son

BBC Gaza documentary narrated by son of Hamas official could return after investigation finds ‘no breach’ of impartiality rules

BBC investigation finds ‘no breach’ of impartiality rules over Gaza documentary narrated by son of Hamas official

Channel 4’s ‘Gaza: Doctors under attack’ is an assault on journalism