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The BBC, funded by every British TV owner, has become a serial offender in anti-Israel distortion, ranked by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as the world’s third worst source of antisemitism in 2021 after Iran and Hamas. It refused to call Hamas a terrorist group, echoed Hamas propaganda, and cut the word “jihad” from subtitles. BBC Arabic repeatedly minimized Israeli suffering, erased victims, platformed journalists who praised terror, and portrayed Hamas attacks as heroic “operations,” while BBC English issued apology after apology for false reporting and mistranslations.
A leaked 19 page dossier by former BBC adviser Michael Prescott exposed how the Arabic service amplified Iranian and Syrian disinformation, ignored Israeli hostages entirely, and even whitewashed Hezbollah’s killing of nine Druze children. The BBC also spent £333,000 fighting to suppress the 2004 Balen Report on its anti-Israel bias, while Ofcom later ruled that one of its Gaza documentaries was a “serious breach” of broadcasting rules for hiding the narrator’s Hamas ties. From Holocaust denial and “Hitler was right” posts by its journalists to praising Hamas atrocities and distributing debunked blood libels like the Al Ahli hospital explosion, the pattern is impossible to ignore.
What should be a national broadcaster has instead become a megaphone for Hamas propaganda, funded by British taxpayers.
Long answer
Every British TV owner is forced to fund the BBC, supposedly to uphold fairness and balance, yet the network has become a serial offender in pushing anti-Israel distortion to the point that the Simon Wiesenthal Center ranked it the third worst global purveyor of antisemitism in 2021.
Instead of professional journalism, the BBC routinely echoed Hamas propaganda, refused to call Hamas a terrorist group, softened terrorists into “militants,” cut the word “jihad” from subtitles, and even implied that Jewish children attacked on Oxford Street in 2021 had somehow provoked their assailants. It went further by circulating absurd, unverified Hamas claims like the fantasy that 14,000 babies in Gaza would die within 24 hours before quietly editing stories after the damage was done. BBC staff meanwhile applauded musician Bob Vylan for chanting “Death to the IDF,” confirming how deeply activist culture has overtaken editorial standards.
Is this what honest journalism, fairness, and balance from a supposedly respected media institution look like?
In November 2025, The Telegraph exposed a 19 page dossier by former BBC adviser Michael Prescott revealing systematic bias, documenting how BBC Arabic deliberately minimized Israeli suffering, platformed extremists, and granted airtime to journalists who glorified terror, including one who wrote that Jews should be burned “as Hitler did.” Prescott showed that while BBC English ran 19 stories on Israelis kidnapped on October 7, 2023, BBC Arabic ran zero, and it whitewashed terror attacks such as the murder of nine Druze children in 2024 by Hezbollah. BBC English called it what it was, a terror attack. BBC Arabic presented it as just another “Israeli incident,” even repeating Iranian and Syrian claims that Israel had faked the strike. And when in October 2024 two Hamas terrorists murdered seven people and injured 17 in Jaffa, the English site named the victims, but BBC Arabic headlined it as “The Qassam Brigades operation in Jaffa,” erasing them entirely.
BBC Arabic parroted hostile regimes and repeatedly framed terrorists as heroes or “martyrs,” while BBC English issued apology after apology for misreporting, mistranslations, false accusations against Israel, and years of errors so extensive that BBC Arabic alone has had to publish more than 100 corrections.
The BBC’s history is littered with scandals, from the suppressed 2004 internal Balen report on anti-Israel bias it spent £333,000 trying to bury, to fabricated claims of “massacres,” mistranslations hiding antisemitism, reporters praising Hamas atrocities, producers denying the Holocaust, and documentaries secretly narrated by Hamas officials in what Ofcom ruled a “serious breach” of broadcasting rules. The BBC’s crisis isn’t a string of mistakes; it is the result of entrenched antisemitic activism that has captured the institution and turned a national broadcaster into a megaphone for Hamas propaganda, paid for by British taxpayers.
