The BBC’s former director of television has compiled a 60-page report that concludes the broadcaster has “serious questions to answer” over its repeated misreporting of the Israel-Hamas war.
Danny Cohen, who worked at the BBC for eight years, including as director of television from 2013 to 2015, compiled and edited the report based on research from CAMERA U.K. and CAMERA Arabic. The two organizations are local branches of U.S. media monitoring group Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis.
Cohen co-wrote the forward to the report with former BBC governor and House of Lords member Baroness Ruth Deech. In it they write that while “honest mistakes” can happen while reporting, “The ‘mistakes’ are almost always in the anti-Israel direction. It would not be possible to compile a similar record of anti-Palestinian errors.”
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