Protesters accuse BBC of airing 'Hamas propaganda' amid row over Gaza documentary

Protesters accuse BBC of airing 'Hamas propaganda' amid row over Gaza documentary
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Protesters accuse BBC of airing 'Hamas propaganda' amid row over Gaza documentary
Author: Jacob Phillips
Published: Feb, 26 2025 08:06

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"We need to know if licence fee funds went to Hamas, we need to know how a Hamas propaganda programme was broadcast, we need resignations and we finally need an independent inquiry into BBC bias against the Jewish state.

Meanwhile on Wednesday, a letter from Friday Night Dinner and EastEnders actress Tracy-Ann Oberman, Strike producer Neil Blair, former BBC One controller Danny Cohen and producer Leo Pearlman called for the BBC to pull the documentary.

Mr Cohen said on Friday it is “a shocking failure by the BBC and a major crisis for its reputation”, and claimed that a featured girl and a boy – who has carried wounded civilians in the documentary – have links to Hamas.

Demonstrators gathered outside Broadcasting House on Tuesday to criticise the BBC’s reporting of hostage handovers in recent weeks and called for an independent inquiry into the BBC’s coverage of Israel.

Last week the BBC issued an apology after it emerged a child narrator in a documentary about Gaza was the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has worked as Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.

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