Telegraph Reposts on BBC: British Bigotry Corporation
The BBC’s decline did not happen in a vacuum. For years, a steady seep of Nazi-style propaganda and Palestinian political ideology has warped its reporting on Israel, producing a newsroom so ideologically committed that it must now publish record numbers of formal corrections simply to admit its own lies. This is not a case of accidental misreporting or rushed headlines. It is a structural rot, born from sympathies that mirror the same blood-libel narratives Europe once weaponized against its Jews.
State-sponsored media pushing blood-libel claims is a big deal. It has always been one of the clearest warning signs of violent intent, because it conditions the public to see Jews as subhuman and deserving of attack. The fact that so many BBC journalists remain proud of their false reporting about Jews shows journalism is dead.
England has never shed its resentment over losing control of the Middle East. This history shapes its media whether they admit it or not. Britain backed the Arab states against the Jews from the start, as detailed here: https://kingchill.com/jude/repost-brits-wanted-war. Modern calls to “return to 1948” ignore the fact that Arabs did not rule the land then, revealing a quieter wish for the days of British rule and British power. The nostalgia for that empire blends perfectly with today’s anti-Israel reporting: a longing to undo Jewish sovereignty while pretending it is a neutral moral stance.
They also hate being called colonizers, and are pathetically desperate to point fingers at Israel to avoid criticism. The mass immigration has not helped them either. Worst of all, they are desperate to copy online trends.
The first article, back in 2023, covers Jeremy Bowen’s refusal to express regret after wrongly reporting Israel bombed a Gaza hospital, even after the facts proved otherwise: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/25/bbc-bowen-wrong-gaza-hospital-no-regrets/ As one commenter reminds, “This is the man who was caught on camera in Ukraine, lying on the ground in tin helmet and flak jacket, whilst a woman looked in astonishment as she went past with her shopping trolley.” [PS the first article repeats the false death toll claims, repeatedly debunked, from this incident where Palestinians bombed their own hospital.]
The second article explains how the BBC was forced to correct an average of two Gaza stories per week, showing the scale of its institutional failures: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/09/bbc-forced-to-correct-two-gaza-stories-a-week/ . BBC’s Arabic version is even worse. Which is not surprising. They thought they wouldn’t get caught. BBC Arabic repeatedly insisted that the starved hostages were treated well. Amongst the most gross lies the article covers is that the BBC Arabic version referred to two armed Palestinians (not from Gaza) going on the Jaffo lightrail and close range murdering 9 civilians, nearly all unarmed women, was a “military operation.”
So, yes, the BBC has referred to terrorism targetting pregnant women on the train as a military operations. Which is not suprising because the BBC essentially told the public in 2023, “Yes, we will lie about the Jewish State. No we not apologize for it. We frankly do not care about journalism as much as we care about blaming the Jews.”
[PS here are another two Telegraph articles on the topic I am not including: https://web.archive.org/web/20250802220943/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/06/bbc-must-publish-israel-bias-report-suppressed-for-10-years/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20251112082126/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/03/bbc-prescott-report-hamas-lies-arabic-culture-anti-semitism/ ]
The BBC in a nutshell.
Jeremy Bowen told Behind the Stories he was 'measured throughout' and 'didn’t race to judgment' Credit: BBC
BBC’s Jeremy Bowen admits he ‘got it wrong’ in Gaza hospital report but has ‘no regrets’
International editor says he doesn't 'feel particularly bad about' his inaccuracies
Nov 25, 2023
BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen has admitted his coverage of the alleged bombing of a hospital in Gaza was “wrong” but still said he “doesn’t regret one thing” about his reporting.
Speaking in a television interview, the veteran reporter said he was incorrect to have suggested Al-Ahli hospital “was flattened” in an explosion on Oct 17.
Stories on the blast were a key flashpoint in controversy over the reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas.
The BBC’s commitment to transparency comes in having a series of programmes called “Behind the Stories” on which Mr Bowen was talking and made the comments.
In an item on BBC One’s News at Ten, hours after the first reports of an explosion, Mr Bowen said: “The missile hit the hospital not long after dark. You can hear the impact.
“The explosion destroyed Al-Ahli hospital. It was already damaged from a smaller attack at the weekend. The building was flattened.”
No 10 agreed with Israeli version
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed the blast was caused by a misfired rocket from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group and released imagery and communications intercepts to support their case. Hamas claimed an Israeli airstrike led to the blast, which was said to have killed at least 500 people.
The British government later concluded the Israeli version of events was more likely to be correct.
It later emerged that the hospital building was intact and any explosion had centred on the car park, claiming far fewer casualties than the first accounts of 500 dead. The Anglican diocese that manages the hospital reported 200 people had died after the blast.
News of the incident disrupted US president Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East, with the cancellation of a summit in Jordan where he had been due to meet Arab leaders.
In the following 48 hours, a synagogue in the central Tunisian city of Al-Hammah was set on fire during mass rioting while two Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue in central Berlin.
Asked about the report in an interview on Behind The Stories on the BBC News channel on Saturday, Mr Bowen said: “So it broke in, I suppose, mid-evening and to answer your question, no, I don’t regret one thing in my reporting because I think I was measured throughout. I didn’t race to judgment.”
Jeremy Bowen: “My reporting was wrong but I don’t regret a thing and I don’t feel bad at all” pic.twitter.com/ilUwuQAilZ
— Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) November 25, 2023
Pressed further about saying the hospital had been “flattened”, he said: “Oh yeah, well I got that wrong because I was looking at the pictures and what I could see was a square that appeared to be flaming on all sides and there was, sort of, a void in the middle. I think it was a picture taken from a drone.
“So, you know, we have to piece together what we see and I thought, ‘It looks like the whole building has gone’.
“That was my conclusion from looking at the pictures and I was wrong on that, but I don’t feel particularly bad about that. It was just the conclusion I drew.”
Mr Bowen said sometimes the corporation had to “rely on things people say” as well as looking “at the multiplicity of videos” that are released before making a judgment on what to report.
In the first story about the hospital on the BBC on Oct 17, correspondent Jon Donnison suggested Israel was behind the blast. Speaking shortly after 8pm on BBC News, he said: “It’s hard to see what else this could be, really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israeli airstrike or several airstrikes.”
First BBC reports prompted complaints
Mr Donnison’s comments prompted the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) to complain to the corporation.
Tim Davie, the director-general of the BBC, referred the complaints to the corporation’s executive complaints unit (ECU), which considered them in light of their “editorial standards of accuracy and impartiality”.
However, the ECU ruled that Mr Donnison had not offered a “definitive judgment” but accepted that it was “not consistent with the BBC’s standards of due accuracy to offer any view about responsibility for the incident at a point where so little reliable information was available”.
Hadar Sela, co-editor of Camera UK, told The Telegraph: “Anyone who was under the impression that the BBC had learned any lessons from its hasty assignment of blame to Israel for the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital on October 17th will understand from Jeremy Bowen’s statements that they were sadly wrong.
“Bowen’s arrogant declaration that he ‘doesn’t regret one thing’ about his misreporting the hospital building as ‘flattened’ and his claim that he ‘didn’t rush to judgment’ even though he amplified unverified claims from third parties is sad testimony to the standard of BBC journalism on display throughout this conflict.”
The BBC has drawn criticism from the Jewish community over its coverage of the war with Hamas Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images
BBC forced to correct two Gaza stories a week
Broadcaster’s Arabic service has had to make 215 corrections over the past two years
Nov 09, 2025; Patrick Sawer
The BBC has been forced to correct two stories a week about the Gaza conflict since the Oct 7 attacks on Israel, The Telegraph can reveal.
BBC Arabic has had to make 215 corrections and clarifications over the past two years on stories that were found to be biased, inaccurate or misleading.
The figures follow a week of revelations by The Telegraph of one-sided reporting at the BBC, disclosed in an 8,000-word dossier compiled by a whistleblower, which also accused BBC Arabic of choosing to “minimise Israeli suffering” in the war in Gaza to “paint Israel as the aggressor”.
On Monday, the BBC is also expected to apologise for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama documentary, putting further pressure on Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, to quit.
The media bias campaign group Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (Camera) obtained the corrections after more than 100 of its complaints over BBC Arabic’s coverage were upheld.
The 8,000-word dossier accused BBC Arabic of ‘painting Israel as the aggressor’ since the Oct 7 attacks Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images
One of its complaints involved a BBC Arabic report in January this year about the treatment of hostages by the Al-Qassam Brigade, in which the Hamas unit was described as “guarding” the hostages and being “responsible for securing the hostages”, rather than holding them captive.
BBC Arabic – which is part of the World Service and is funded mainly through the licence fee – has also been forced to make more than 40 corrections after Camera complained about stories that incorrectly referred to communities inside Israel’s internationally recognised territory as “settlements” and their residents as “settlers”.
Responding to the figures, Baroness Deech, a former BBC governor, said the broadcaster’s own Executive Complaint Unit (ECU) has failed in its obligation as an internal standards watchdog.
She said: “While BBC Arabic rightly continues to receive condemnation from politicians from all sides of the House for its repeated breaches of BBC guidelines and its flagrant anti-Israel bias, the BBC’s ECU considers it to be entirely blameless.
“The ECU is turning a blind eye to bias within BBC Arabic. We need an independent complaints process because the BBC simply cannot be trusted to mark its own homework.”
Baroness Deech has said the BBC ‘cannot be trusted to mark its own homework’ Credit: Andrew Crowley
Michael Prescott, who until June was an independent adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC), was so appalled by the corporation’s lack of action over numerous instances of bias that he sent a memo to all BBC board members, which is now circulating in government departments.
In a copy of the letter, which was last week published by The Telegraph, he said that BBC Arabic gave a platform to journalists who had made extreme anti-Semitic comments.
Among the examples of bias highlighted by both Camera and Mr Prescott were the differences in stories about an attack by Hamas on Oct 1 2024 that killed seven Israeli civilians in Jaffa.
While the BBC News English version reported how the civilians were killed on a train and railway platform, the BBC Arabic version presented the attack as a military operation with no mention of the civilian victims.
Another BBC Arabic report in January this year described the Al-Qassam Brigade as “guarding” the hostages and as being “responsible for securing the hostages”, rather than holding them captive.
It also featured two female Israeli hostages “thanking” their captors for the “good treatment” they received while “in custody”.
Following a complaint from Camera that the video omitted the “horrific reality of the torture and execution of hostages”, BBC Arabic was forced to amend its story.
It removed the section that claimed the hostages had received good treatment and added a brief reference to Hamas abuse.
However the BBC, in its statement, defended the video for being “duly accurate” and containing “due context”.
Camera appealed to the ECU on the grounds that even the amended video did not state that members of this unit had killed hostages, such as Ofir Tzarfati. Instead, the broadcaster presented this fact as something “Israel said”, even though Hamas itself has claimed that Tzarfati was murdered by his “guards”.
However, the ECU concluded that specific mention of the murder of Tzarfati was not necessary in a short video.
Another complaint from Camera was that a BBC Arabic series about Hamas, its ideology and the motivation behind the Oct 7 attacks, made no mention of the terror group’s founding charter – which pledges to destroy Israel and create an Islamic state.
Camera complained that instead the programmes gave a platform to Hamas’s justification for the attacks.
The BBC dismissed the complaint on the grounds that the focus of the series was not the ideology of Hamas. The ECU upheld the finding, ruling that “in this context an understanding of the Hamas charter was not directly relevant”.
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Hadar Sela, co-editor of Camera, said: “This report exposes the scale of misinformation spread by BBC Arabic in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and the rise in anti-Semitism across the West.
“Since the Hamas massacre on Oct 7, BBC Arabic has issued 215 corrections after we flagged stories that were inaccurate, misleading, or biased.
“Yet when our complaints are rejected and we appeal to the BBC’s internal watchdog, the Executive Complaints Unit, the outcome is predictable: the ECU sides with BBC Arabic.
“The ECU’s own view of “due accuracy and impartiality” is far removed from any reasonable understanding of honest journalism.”
Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservatives, wrote to Mr Davie in February this year to complain about BBC Arabic’s coverage, describing it as a “platform for terrorists” that was promoting “appalling anti-Semitism” to millions of viewers.
BBC Arabic had previously given a platform to journalists who had made extreme anti-Semitic comments.
Ahmed Qannan, a regular BBC Arabic contributor, described a Palestinian who killed four Israeli civilians and a police officer in March 2022 as a “hero”.
When a friend of his posted on Facebook “we want to see some throats cut” in response to a shooting near a Jerusalem synagogue, which claimed the lives of seven civilians on Holocaust Memorial Day in January 2023, Mr Qannan replied: “Don’t give up on your ambition.”
The BBC’s internal review found he had appeared on BBC Arabic 217 times in the 14 months to April 2025.
Ahmed Alagha, who described Israelis as less than human and Jews as “devils”, appeared on BBC Arabic 522 times between November 2023 and April 2025, the BBC’s internal review found.
Danny Cohen, the former director of BBC Television, said: “It has been obvious for a long time that BBC Arabic employs anti-Semites pumping out anti-Israel propaganda – paid for by UK taxpayers – but BBC executives have buried their heads in the sand.
“You would think having to issue so many corrections would raise red flags that there was a problem, but Tim Davie has failed to sort it out. Global news director Jonathan Munro refuses to accept anything is wrong.
“In fact, he said BBC Arabic’s reporters are an ‘unrivalled source of knowledge and editorial content for the wider BBC’. This is deeply concerning and speaks volumes about the BBC’s failings during the Israel-Hamas war.
“The blame lies at the door of BBC executives in London who are only interested in protecting their reputations. The BBC must finally act to stop the rot.”
The BBC has defended its Arabic channel, pointing out that since Oct 7 2023, BBC News Arabic has published more than 11,000 articles on its site and that during the same time period, Camera submitted 159 complaints about content on the site.
A BBC spokesman said: “BBC News Arabic strives for the highest standards of journalism across its services. Whenever mistakes are made or clarifications are needed, we take action to ensure clarity and accuracy for our audiences.
“The Executive Complaints Unit works outside of BBC News and assesses complaints independently.”
Spoiler: Don’t trust state sponspored media
