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From ‘dee do dee’ to ‘death to the IDF’: how music festivals lost the plot

Once a place for harmless singalongs, Britain’s summer stages have become pulpits for political dogma – with Palestine the sermon of choice and the young, naïve and impressionable the captive congregation

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BBC News has issued a 'clarification' after it reported that a Gaza cancer patient receiving treatment in Italy 'died of malnutrition' (Image: Getty)

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BBC backtracks on claim that Gazan cancer patient ‘died of malnutrition’

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Jason Isaacs to front appeal for Holocaust education charity

By Daniel Ben-David

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Rola Azar's performance at the Barbican in June was featured on a BBC Arabic broadcast (Photo: BBC)

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BBC Arabic interviewed Palestinian singer who appeared to defend Bibas kidnappers

By Jane Prinsley

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Gary Lineker says he’s not ‘antisemitic’ but ‘anti-child killing’

By Jamie Shapiro

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Georges Abdallah has been released from prison after 41 years (Image: X/@s_assbague)

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BBC calls terror group founder jailed over two murders a ‘pro-Palestine convict’

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The BBC said it 'stands by' Jeremy Bowen after he claimed there was 'clear evidence' of Israeli war crimes (Image: Alamy)

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BBC ‘stands by’ Jeremy Bowen over claim there is ‘clear evidence’ of Israeli ‘war crimes’

By Jacob Jaffa

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The West ignores the massacre of Syria’s Druze – and libels Israel instead

This is a seismic moment. Civilisation is being tested by a culture of death. Israel is meeting the challenge and will survive. Britain is going down, firing at Israel as it does so

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Druze and Syria analyst for BBC called Zionism ‘pure evil’

Robin Yassin-Kassab lashed out at Israel’s attempt to ‘create chaos’ in Syria during his World Service interview

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The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

As Hillel Neuer dryly put it: ‘It’s really important that we are clear that BBC News has a pro-terrorist wing, and a completely separate wing that are just idiots’

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Head of BBC News Deborah Turness poses for photographs at the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque, marking the home of BBC executive Grace Wyndham Goldie, one of the only female executives at the BBC in the 1930s. (Image: Getty)

Leaked recording shows BBC News CEO defending ‘inaccurate’ Gaza documentary

Deborah Turness appeared to attempt to draw a distinction between Hamas’ military and political wings after it emerged that the film’s narrator was the son of an official in the terror group’s government in Gaza

By Jamie Shapiro

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The CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, was recorded defending the corporation's controversial documentary on Gaza, despite its own head of complaints ruling that the film violated accuracy rules (Image: Getty)

By David Hirsh

In the UK, antisemitism is now mainstream. Is it reversible?

Once whispered on the fringes, antisemitism now parades through Britain’s institutions in plain sight from Goldsmiths to Glastonbury

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What kind of country has Britain become?

The normalisation of Jew-hatred among the British middle class is an assault on the very foundations of our civilisation.

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What kind of country has Britain become?

Ofcom open investigation into BBC Gaza documentary narrated by Hamas official’s son

The new probe was announced after the BBC’s own independent review found ‘no breach’ of its impartiality rules

By Jacob Jaffa

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July 15, 2025 10:23

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BBC Gaza documentary narrated by son of Hamas official could return after investigation finds ‘no breach’ of impartiality rules

The corporation said it remains ‘keen to tell the stories of those featured’ in the film, despite its chair calling the resulting row a ‘dagger to the heart’ of its reputation

By Jacob Jaffa

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July 14, 2025 12:47

The BBC has indicated that its controversial documentary about Gaza, which was found to be narrated by the son of a Hamas official, could return to the iPlayer in an edited form (Image: Getty)

BBC investigation finds ‘no breach’ of impartiality rules over Gaza documentary narrated by son of Hamas official

The probe found that the film violated guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose the teen’s family links to terror, but that no other rules were broken

By Jacob Jaffa

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July 14, 2025 12:21

A report into the BBC's airing of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has found that the corporation did not breach its impartiality requirements (Image: Getty)

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From ‘dee do dee’ to ‘death to the IDF’: how music festivals lost the plot

BBC backtracks on claim that Gazan cancer patient ‘died of malnutrition’

Jason Isaacs to front appeal for Holocaust education charity

BBC Arabic interviewed Palestinian singer who appeared to defend Bibas kidnappers

Gary Lineker says he’s not ‘antisemitic’ but ‘anti-child killing’

BBC calls terror group founder jailed over two murders a ‘pro-Palestine convict’

BBC ‘stands by’ Jeremy Bowen over claim there is ‘clear evidence’ of Israeli ‘war crimes’

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