Here’s a how-de-do: a demonstration outside BBC headquarters, for once not taking the side of Hamas, but of Israel, with the demonstrators angered by the bias shown in a “documentary” about Gaza that was narrated by a 13-year-old Arab boy, Abdullah, who turned out to be the son of a high-ranking Hamas official, and whose family, furthermore, was paid for his participation out of the license-fee money that all owners of televisions in the U.K. are forced to pay for the quite extravagant care and feeding of the BBC.
More on the mass protest, and on the continuing scandal surrounding the meretricious pro-Hamas documentary, can be found here: “Mass Protests Continue Outside BBC Headquarters as Corporation Faces Intense Scrutiny for Gaza Documentary,” by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, March 7, 2025:
Demonstrators gathered outside the London headquarters of the BBC on Thursday for a second week in a row to protest the corporation after it admitted to making “serious flaws” in its documentary about Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.
The protest outside Broadcasting House was organized by Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) and took place following the BBC’s acknowledgment that licensing fee payments for “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone” were given to the family of a senior Hamas official. Protesters held placards that said, “BBC I Refuse to Fund Terrorists,” and also signs that featured a masked face of a Hamas terrorist with a green ban across his forehead that said “BBC” in the center.
A spokesperson for CAA said the BBC “has allowed license fee money to go to the family of a Hamas terrorist in the production of what was essentially a Hamas propaganda film.” The spokesperson also cited recent polling published by CAA, revealing that a majority of Brits support the call for an independent investigation into the BBC’s actions.
“The BBC is trying to pretend that it is business as usual while hoping to get away with an internal report, but the British public is having none of it and does not want the BBC to mark its own homework,” the spokesperson added. “That is why we want the license fee to be suspended pending an independent investigation into this scandal and the wider issue of the BBC’s glaring bias. It is unconscionable to force people to pay a license fee that pays for biased reporting and has now even been handed to the family of a terrorist.”
British broadcaster and comedian Josh Howie – who is a presenter on GB News and “Headliners,” the GB News late night show – spoke at last week’s protest outside BBC headquarters and announced that he will no longer pay the BBC license fee. He gave a speech at the protest this week as well, and others who spoke on stage included Jewish actress Dame Maureen Lipman; Natalie Sanandaji, who survived the Nova music festival massacre on Oct. 7, 2023; and Mark Birbeck, founder of Our Fight UK, which is a group of mostly non-Jews who combat antisemitic sentiments in Britain.
Mere days after it debuted in late February, the BBC pulled “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone” from its iPlayer streaming platform after it was revealed that the film’s narrator, Palestinian teenager Abdullah Al-Yazouri, is the son of Dr. Ayman Al-Yazouri, the deputy minister of agriculture in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. It was also discovered that the family is related to Hamas founder Ibrahim Al-Yazouri.
The BBC explained that it was not aware of Abdullah’s ties to Hamas prior to filming the documentary. The corporation apologized and insisted that it asked Hoyo Films, the London-based independent production company that produced the documentary for the BBC, “a number of times” about “any potential connections [Abdullah] and his family might have with Hamas.”
Hoyo Films never responded to the BBC’s request for more information about possible ties of Abdullah and his family to Hamas. At that point, the BBC should have refused to air the program until it received a satisfactory answer to its query, which it had made several times. But it went ahead anyway. Hoyo Films was deliberately deceptive in refusing to reveal the connection of their documentary’s narrator to Hamas — which they subsequently admitted they had known about — but the BBC was just as guilty for airing it without insisting that the possibility of a Hamas link be cleared up.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
These demonstrations are too peaceful & civilized: BBC won’t get the message. For that to happen, the demonstrators have had to do what their mohammedan counterparts do, and engage in riots and arson. Only when BBC sees that their staff is in actual physical danger will they bother to mend their ways
The other, better thing English, Welsh, Scots & Irish can do would be just cutting the cord and ceasing all license fees. You can get news feeds of your favorite channels, be it GBN or anything else, on YouTube and sometimes Rumble, albeit feeds delayed by some hours. That delay won’t kill you, but it will cut off funding to the British media establishment, and w/ any luck, put all those “journalists” on the streets
skeptiker says
Es gibt Widerstand, bravo !! Bitte mehr davon.
In Rumänien wird auch gerade der Aufstand gegen die diktatorische Übergriffigkeit der EU geprobt.