In a bombshell disclosure, BBC Arabic stands accused of abandoning journalistic integrity to amplify Hamas propaganda and downplay Israeli suffering. Whistleblower Michael Prescott’s internal memo detonates the network’s façade of impartiality, revealing a systematic campaign to cast Israel as the villain at every turn.
BBC Arabic reporters raced to broadcast unverified Hamas claims—ignoring solid evidence to the contrary. Allegations of Israeli “mass graves” went unchallenged. Deaths of Israeli children under Hezbollah fire were scrubbed from Arabic bulletins while English broadcasts covered them in detail. That is not oversight—that is editorial bias on steroids.
The network didn’t merely favor one side. It gave extremists a platform. Samer Elzaenen, who once vowed “We shall burn you as Hitler did,” appeared on BBC Arabic 244 times. Ahmed Alagha—who called Jews “devils”—spoke more than 500 times. BBC executives dismissed them as “eyewitnesses.” In reality, they became regular voices of hate under the BBC banner.
Misinformation flowed freely. BBC Arabic claimed 14,000 babies were “hours from starvation” when the real figure applied to an entire year’s risk. It maintained inflated Gaza death tolls long after the United Nations revised its numbers downward. Corrections were buried online but rebroadcast on flagship programs.
The network even misreported that the International Court of Justice ruled Israel’s actions “plausible genocide.” That never happened. Senior managers delayed public corrections for months. When pressed, they insisted their coverage was “exceptional,” bragging BBC Arabic was “almost as trusted as Al Jazeera.”
Behind closed doors, internal reviewers warned these repeated errors were not accidents but evidence of a deep-seated agenda. Prescott’s memo concludes: “This is not balanced reporting. It is a deliberate echo chamber for Hamas lies, funded by British taxpayers.”
At a time when global disinformation runs rampant, Britain’s state broadcaster is busy abetting terror propaganda. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Ofcom now face pressure to launch a full-scale inquiry. The BBC must answer for this betrayal of British values—and taxpayers must demand accountability.
If the BBC refuses to reform, Parliament should strip its funding and mandate a complete leadership overhaul. This isn’t about free speech—it’s about the public trust. And the BBC has squandered it.
