The BBC has pulled its documentary about children in Gaza from iPlayer after mounting pressure over a featured child being the son of a Palestinian minister, in a move some commentators have slammed as “cowardly”.
Outrage over Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone reached its highest point on Wednesday and Thursday, with the Israeli ambassador in London complaining to Britain’s public broadcaster, and culture secretary Lisa Nandy saying she will “be discussing” the issue with the BBC.
Most criticism has focused on the fact, first reported by researcher David Collier, that the documentary’s 13-year-old narrator Abdullah Alyazouri is the son of a minister in Gaza’s Hamas-run government.
Middle East Eye found on Thursday that Dr Ayman Alyazouri, Gaza’s deputy agriculture minister, appears to be a technocrat with a scientific background who previously worked for the United Arab Emirates government and studied at British universities.
Earlier this week a group of 45 prominent Jewish journalists and members of the media, including former BBC governor Ruth Deech, piled on pressure by sending a letter to the broadcaster demanding the film be removed from the iPlayer.
I wonder if they made a film called How to Kill Children in a Warzone (from the IDF view), would it be approved?
Calling them “children” might be too humanising.
“Dangerous terrorist offspring” is probably more in line with their disgusting political views.
The documentary can be see here: kalamullah.com/gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone DOT html
Reason for the film’s removal TLDR narrator is son of a civil servant in Gaza Department of Agriculture. Racist genocide enthusiasts call this son of Hamas official. Aka genocide coverup
Thanks for the backup link! Lemmy does not filter links, here is the full link with HTML attached for other people who want to view it:
They were slammed!!! Oh boy that’s rough. I hope they weren’t slammed too hard. /s
I think the word they were looking for may have been “criticized” or something like that?
That seems brutal, will they ever recover?
The media puts on a giant show. They always slam and get slammed but they are just acting. Nobody really gets hurt.
Novara has a video about it which contains part of the Documentary. The visuals of the documentary are really amazing https://youtu.be/d7P5o4X7pTg
The sins of the fathers, huh?
