BBC Shocked to Discover Palestinians With Opinions
Al-Monitor reports the BBC accepted a sanction for a 'misleading' Gaza documentary because its child narrator turned out to be the son of Hamas's former deputy minister of agriculture. The audacity! Apparently, children in Gaza are only permitted to speak if their family tree has been vetted by the UK media watchdog, ensuring no inconvenient paternal connections. This isn't about 'misleading'
journalism; it's about policing Palestinian narratives. The BBC pulls a documentary that dared to show Gaza through the eyes of a child whose father, like many, is implicated by the occupation. Yet, one searches in vain for similar 'sanctions' against news outlets that uncritically amplify Israeli government spokesmen whose fathers, or they themselves, have been key architects of the very
'warzone' the documentary was trying to survive.