BBC whitewashing Israeli war crimes: Protesters

Seething with outrage outside the BBC London headquarters, once again, protesters are accusing the UK’s biggest broadcaster of whitewashing Israeli war crimes and silencing Palestinian voices.

They are enabling the genocide to continue. They are enabling this horror that we are all traumatized by and living through to continue.

Protester 01

The way the media is portraying what is happening in Gaza is now reflecting the current issues and what they’re going through at the moment.

Protester 02

They are complicit in this genocide. They cannot explain clearly what’s happening in Gaza.

Protester 03

However, it is not just the BBC’s impartiality they’re directing their criticism at.

The whole political establishment of Britain is pro-Israeli, and the reason is not because they’re pro-Israel it’s because they’re pro-United States. That’s the real reason.

The truth is that the British government does what America says, and the BBC does what the British government says.

Tim Gopsill, National Union of Journalists

There have been numerous demonstrations over the course of the Gaza genocide at this very location, and every time, the demonstrators have demanded accountability from the BBC.

An institution meant to hold power to account, they say, has instead turned into a mouthpiece for it and has capitulated to Israeli pressure.

An egregious example of that, beyond the headlines, the choice of words, and, images, is the decision by the BBC in February this year to pull a rare documentary that showed life inside Gaza due to pressure over its narrator’s identity; proof, the demonstrators say, of the BBC’s fear of upsetting pro-Israel lobbies.

They use language that is constantly avoiding the facts.

They don’t talk about war crimes. They don’t use the word war crime or ethnic cleansing or genocide. They avoid it.

They’re very, very fearful, I think. It feels like they have the Israeli lobby very heavily on their backs.

Protester 04