A leaked directive reveals the BBC instructed staff to dismiss counter-narratives and blame a new Israeli-backed aid body for distribution failures in Gaza.
THE EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE -- A leaked email has further shown how UK state broadcaster the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has misled audiences on events in Gaza since the October 7th pogrom.
Writing in The Spectator on July 28th, broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti details how an internal memo entitled “Covering the food crisis in Gaza,” acts as “a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality.” Sent to BBC staff on Friday, July 25th, it opens with the assertion that “the argument over how much aid has crossed into Gaza is irrelevant.” Instead, “we [staff] should say” that the current distribution system “doesn’t work.”
Such criticism is directed at the recently created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), not the United Nations’ Hamas-riddled UNWRA NGO. The BBC is instructing journalists to blame the GHF for the failure of aid to get through, rather than, say, the involvement of Hamas terrorists in attacking and looting aid shipments. As Sacerdoti argues,
The closer the GHF and Israeli army get to finally defeating the terrorists, the more shrill the BBC’s insistence that the Jewish state is deliberately starving children.
This now includes a memorandum designed to control the narrative by instructing journalists to ignore any evidence to the contrary. The email even declares that it is ‘indisputable’ that Israel is the occupying power in Gaza, despite disengaging from there in 2005. Israel presents its current action as a temporary one to defeat Hamas and its allies, and not an attempt to acquire territory.
Should they wish to watch live television, British citizens are forced to fund the BBC, on pain of a criminal record. As ‘Auntie’ lurches from one antisemitism row to another, the national broadcaster’s credibility is slumping lower and lower.