Why did ITV give airtime to a Press TV reporter?

Oh dear. It seems that another major broadcaster has slipped up in their coverage of Israel and Palestine. This time it is ITV News, which this week featured in a segment ‘a British Palestinian woman living in London’ called Latifa Abouchakra. She was invited on to talk about the Islamophobic abuse she has received in recent weeks, explaining how:

I’ve been called a terrorist, I’ve been asked to go back home, I’ve had people in their cars making threatening gestures… it makes me feel as a Muslim woman in this country, that no matter how hard I work, no matter how good I can be, it will never be enough because appearently Mulims and Palestinians are inherently terrorists according to the system here, according to the narrative of the media here.

So who is Latifa Abouchakra? As a quick internet search would reveal, she is a reporter for Palestine Declassified, a show produced by Press TV, the state channel of the Iranian regime.