BBC Gives a Platform to Jihad Terror Supporters

British investigative journalist David Collier has been struck, yet again, by how often the BBC gives airtime to people in Gaza who are Hamas supporters, never identifying them as such, and apparently not interested in investigating their links to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terror. groups. More on the BBC’s scandalous indifference to the terrorist affiliations of those it relies on to supply news from Gaza can be found here: “The BBC busted with terrorist supporters again!,” David Collier, July 4, 2024:

Abed Abubaker [sic] is a terrorist supporter. He publicly celebrates the murder of Jews and justifies the slaughter of civilians. His immediate family supports terrorism. His cousin is an Islamic Jihad terrorist. Abed’s best friend’s father was a Hamas enforcer. How did the BBC fawn over him and give him so much unchallenged airtime on at least four separate occassions [sic]?

So here is a legitimate question: How many times can the BBC produce fake news or be caught platforming terrorist supporters before it justifiably gets labelled as a Hamas propaganda website?

I have been doing what I can to highlight the most egregious examples my research uncovered – all that so one day – the BBC journalists and executives responsible for the catastrophic collapse of BBC standards and integrity – will finally be held to account for the tsunami of antisemitism they have helped to unleash.

Exhibit A was an entirely fabricated story about Gazan footballers – lies that were provided to the BBC by a terrorist supporting journalist that helped write the article.

Exhibit B was about how the BBC got caught pretending a child with severe underlying illnesses was healthy before October 7.

This latest example is exhibit C.

The non news story

Last November, BBC News ran a ‘non-news story‘ about a 14-year-old football supporter from Gaza who had his photo placed at Anfield stadium by Liverpool fans in a gesture of solidarity. The bridge had been built by his elder brother – Abubaker Abed – a young football commentator / journalist who lives in Deir al Balah in the Gaza Strip.

It was a non-story because there is no substance to it, and it typifies the Palestinian propaganda cause. It was a meaningless and blatant stunt put together between a propagandist in Gaza and an anti-Israel activist in Liverpool. You might expect to see the story being told in a student journal somewhere, or in a Facebook post. You wouldn’t expect to see it anywhere near the BBC website. But this is what activist journalists have reduced the BBC to.

The BBC’s new expert

The propaganda stunt in early November introduced Abubaker Abed to the BBC – and it soon became apparent BBC journalists had him on speed dial. I found four separate BBC News interviews with him spread between November and February….

During these interviews:

• 24/11/2023 Five unchallenged minutes in which he describes massacres, atrocities, soldiers shooting civilians, and babies dying from a lack of food.
• 1/12/2023 Over six unchallenged minutes in which he is free to talk about ‘Israeli occupation forces’, massacres, atrocities and pushing lies about aid.
• 11/01/24 Seven unchallenged minutes in which he spreads stories about lack of aid, water, ongoing massacres of civilians and how they are reduced to eating bird food.
• 08/02/2024 Seven more unchallenged minutes in which he can say whatever he likes to the BBC audience without fear of contradiction.

During the interviews the BBC journalists repeatedly state how important it is to hear voices like Abubaker’s – so as to tell viewers what Gazans are really living with.

Abubaker Abed and his heroes

It is time to meet the real Abubaker Abed – the person that the BBC gave unchallenged time to again and again. On January 27 2023, a Palestinian terrorist Khairi Alqam slaughtered seven Israeli civilians outside a synagogue in Jerusalem. This is Abukaber Abed celebrating the murderous attack – and calling the terrorist a ‘hero’…

Abubaker Abed supported the Oct 7 atrocities

There is little doubt about how he received the news of the Hamas attack on October 7…

And this ‘journalist’ that the BBC relies on and trusts – publicly supported and justified the killing of Israeli civilians….

This is the moment for a parliamentary committee to investigate the BBC’s reporters in Gaza and its informants who provide commentary on what life is like for ordinary Gazans. Such a committee should , begin its deliberations with Abubaker Abed, a Hamas propagandist who has repeatedly shown in his own reports that he supports terrorism, as does his father, his brother, his sister, and his best friend. How is it that the BBC continues to fail in its duty to conduct due diligence on those whom it either employs or relies on for man-in-the-street interviews in Gaza? Is it simply an oversight, or a deliberate policy, the result of the anti-Israel animus of so many of the BBC’s Middle East reporters, including John Simpson, Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet, Orla Guerin, and Yolande Knell? When will the BBC be held to account for its decades of misleading its world-wide audience about Israel, the Palestinians, and Islam?