Media

Contributors who glorified killing of Israelis and Jews were allowed on BBC Arabic, head of news admits

The BBC failed to adequately scrutinise guests’ social media history, the corporation’s head of news has said

Netflix condemned for Gary Lineker deal after he quit BBC over sharing post about Zionism with rat image

Streaming giant gives former England star bumper pay day for World Cup coverage despite antisemitism controversy

Guardian newspaper criticised for failure to remove columns by Hamas leader

The paper’s website still carries four columns from Khalid Mish’al, acting head of Hamas’s political bureau

BBC headlines ‘three times more likely to hold Israel to account than Hamas’

Analysis of 2,500 BBC News stories about the Israeli-Gaza war suggests ‘blatant bias’ against Jewish state, says watchdog

Guardian publishes article containing antisemitic trope despite apologising in similar case a decade ago

The paper acknowledged in 2011 that ‘it has been antisemites, not Jews, who have read ‘chosen’ as code for Jewish supremacism’

Letters to the Editor, November 14 2025

BBC resignations were inevitable after years of denial and decay

The corporation’s reckoning with anti-Israel bias has been a slow-burning crisis for more than 20 years

Paramount keeps blacklist of ‘overtly antisemitic’ talent

The company also openly denounced a star-studded letter accusing Israel of genocide

BBC accused of ‘pushing Hamas lies’ after whistleblower report found Gaza coverage ‘minimised Israeli suffering’

Claims against the Jewish state were allegedly ‘raced to air’ without adequate checks in order to ‘paint Israel as the aggressor’