Removing the head of BBC Arabic panders to the Israeli lobby, which has repeatedly attacked its Gaza coverage

The BBC is looking for a new head of its Arabic-language service to please Israel lobbyists. Mouthpieces for the occupation had complained it was too quick to blame Israel for its actions. The move is intended to force BBC Arabic to use the same dishonest framing as its English-language services.

The manufactured furore began in November 2025. Pro-Israel pressure groups complained that the BBC Arabic coverage of its ‘war’ in Gaza was “critically different” from English coverage. This meant that it was – this is not satire — “painting Israel as the aggressor” in Gaza.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlBanned from communityOP
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      3 months ago

      In his memo, Prescott indicated that BBC Arabic was failing in its duty to provide impartial news coverage. He highlighted the “critically different treatment” of coverage between the main BBC News website and its Arabic counterpart of a rocket attack that killed nine children in the Golan Heights in July last year.

      Oh yeah turned out Israel killed those children with a failed interceptor missile and then lied about it. Interesting Prescott is willing to use the lie Western media spread as “evidence”.

      I’m not reading the rest of that garbage filled to the brim with lies. Safe to say TheCanary has been completely vindicated.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
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        3 months ago

        Safe to say TheCanary has been completely vindicated.

        I’m sorry, how is the Canary vindicated by the failings of the source it used?

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlBanned from communityOP
          12·
          3 months ago

          What source you’re just citing Zionist propaganda without sources. That’s what TheCanary called out.

          • Skua@kbin.earth
            31·
            3 months ago

            The Canary’s source for BBC Arabic looking for a new editor and for the “criticism of BBC Arabic’s guests” is the Times article, and the Times article in turn got stuff from the Telegraph. The Canary is not casting doubt on either of those, it is taking them entirely as fact.

              • Skua@kbin.earth
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                3 months ago

                The Times article linked by the Canary:

                The BBC is searching for a new editor for BBC News Arabic to try to get a grip on the service

                In addition, Samer Elzaenen, a journalist who previously posted online calling for Jews to be shot and burnt “as Hitler did”, was found to have appeared almost 250 times on the channel.

                The Canary:

                BBC removes head of Arabic service to please racist Israel lobby

                The BBC is looking for a new head of its Arabic-language service to please Israel lobbyists.

                There was also criticism of BBC Arabic’s guests, because two of them had supported violence against Israelis.

                You:

                The Canary is calling out the Times’ lies

                  • Skua@kbin.earth
                    21·
                    3 months ago

                    At this point I just kinda have to assume that you haven’t even read the Canary article and also aren’t reading any of my comments. Have fun I guess.