BBC

Channel 4’s ‘Gaza: Doctors under attack’ is an assault on journalism

Billed as a ‘forensic investigation’, the documentary is a typical piece of activism journalism, filled with elusions and incomplete truths wrapped in the ponderous score of a horror film

By Tanya Gold

3 min read

The surgery wing of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza (Image: Channel 4/Basement Films)

Bob Vylan performing at Glastonbury (L), and the offices of the BBC (R)

BBC

Tim Davie says sorry to Jewish community for airing ‘offensive and deplorable’ Glastonbury gig

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Thousands protest the BBC's refusal to label Hamas as terrorists, outside Broadcasting House in October 2023 (Image: Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

The anti-Israel BBC requires root-and-branch reform

3 min read

Glastonbury Festival

Yes, actually, Glastonbury is the story

By Rosa Doherty

3 min read

To the backdrop of a Palestinian flag, Bobby Vylan of British duo Bob Vylan performs at Glastonbury, leading a chat of "Death to the IDF' and ranting about 'working for a Zionist' (Photo: Getty Images)

By Stephen Daisley

Glastonbury errors prove the BBC should not be funded by the licence fee

4 min read

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has warned "Toxic Jew-hatred is a threat to our entire society," following the BBC's broadcast of Bob Vylan's controversial Glastonbury performance. (Photo: Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Airing of ‘vile Jew-hate’ at Glastonbury was a moment of ‘national shame’, says Chief Rabbi

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

To the backdrop of a Palestinian flag, Bobby Vylan of British duo Bob Vylan performs on the West Holts Stage on the fourth day of the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm in the village of Pilton in Somerset, south-west England, on June 28, 2025. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

By Stephen Pollard

The door opened by October 7 directly led to Glastonbury platforming hate

3 min read

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BBC regrets failing to cut live feed of Bob Vylan’s ‘antisemitic’ chant at Glastonbury

Bob Vylan’s chants of ‘death to the IDF’ were ‘utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves’ the BBC said

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

June 30, 2025 13:18

By The JC Leader

Glastonbury and the BBC must answer for platforming anti-Israel hate

After festivalgoers chanted ‘Death to the IDF,” Health Secretary Wes Streeting resorted to ‘whataboutism’, sending exactly the wrong message at the wrong time

3 min read

June 29, 2025 13:35