میدل-ایست-آیOpinion: BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal
Opinion: BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal
As the BBC’s director general and head of news resign amid an uproar over a misleadingly edited speech by US President Donald Trump, the narrative seems neat: an error, consequences, accountability.
But this latest scandal was prompted by the wrong controversy.
While headlines continue to focus on a single editing mistake, the real crisis at the heart of Britain’s public broadcaster runs far deeper, most notably in its failure to report Israel’s war on Gaza with honesty or courage.
And the irony is brutal: the BBC has been shaken by one of the smallest of its sins, while the greater one - its distortion of Palestinian reality - goes unpunished.
