CAA to protest at BBC on Tuesday following airing of Hamas propaganda film

Campaign Against Antisemitism will be demonstrating outside BBC Broadcasting House at 19:00 on Tuesday 25th February.

In the past week alone, the BBC has:

• Published essentially a Hamas propaganda film, eventually offering a flimsy non-apology and defiantly stating it will air it again but will “add some more detail to the film” and then broadcast it again.
• Provided a megaphone for Hamas’ bogus and insulting claims that the terror group did “everything in its power” to keep the hostages alive as it returned four bodies, including those of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who were four years and nine months respectively at the time of their kidnapping.
• Covered Hamas’ cruel and twisted ‘handover’ ceremony whilst carefully excluding from the article’s featured image Hamas’ antisemitic portrayal of the Israeli Prime Minister as a blood-sucking vampire looming over pictures of the smiling hostages. It also declined to report that the coffins were labelled “date of arrest: 7th October 2023”, that they were apparently locked with no key provided to the Israelis, and that they had to be checked for explosives, given Hamas’ history and its aspiration to murder as many Jews as it can.

The Culture Secretary intends to meet with the Director General and Chair of the BBC in the coming days to discuss these failures.

A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “The BBC has no shame and Britain has had enough. For over sixteen months, we have watched our national broadcaster provide ever more sympathetic coverage to a proscribed terrorist organisation, hiding behind claims of impartiality. There is nothing impartial about giving credibility to the claims of terrorists. Providing a platform for terrorists’ propaganda, downplaying their crimes and continuing to refuse to call them terrorists is the BBC putting its thumb on the scale. It is extremely partial, and inaccurate. It is a breach of the BBC’s editorial guidelines and a betrayal of licence fee payers. That is why we are inviting everyone to join us at 19:00 on Tuesday outside the Broadcasting House. Enough is enough. It is time for the BBC to stop whitewashing terrorism. There must be an independent investigation into its bias in relation to its Middle East coverage.”