So the moral rot at the BBC appears to run even deeper than we thought. The storm over its Gaza documentary just got a whole lot worse. As if it wasn’t bad enough that this Israel-mauling hour of TV was fronted by the son of a leading member of Hamas, now we discover that the Beeb whitewashed the bigoted views of some of the doc’s participants. It omitted their Jew-bashing. This is as serious a breach of broadcasting ethics as I can remember.
The film was swiftly mired in scandal
Gaza: How To Survive a War Zone was first broadcast on BBC Two last week. The film was swiftly mired in scandal when it was revealed that its 14-year-old narrator is the son of a prominent figure in the Hamas government in Gaza. Yes, our public broadcaster, which we are compelled by law to fund, broadcast an hour-long moan about Israel featuring a kid whose dad has links to the movement that butchered Israel’s men, women and children.
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