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Owen Jones

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: The bbc has alienated everyone with its gaza coverage after this latest failure who will be left to defend it | History Defined

A pro-Palestinian demonstration near BBC headquarters in central London, 14 October 2023.
A pro-Palestinian demonstration near BBC headquarters in central London, 14 October 2023. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

For a genocide to occur, everything that people think is wrong has to first be turned on its head. There have been endless examples of this gruesome phenomenon in the past 21 months; Monday’s report on the BBC’s scrapped documentary about the plight of children in Gaza is just the latest instance.

Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was a rare example of the unbearable experiences of Palestinians being properly investigated by Britain’s public broadcaster. But within the media, this documentary has become a bigger scandal than the suffering of Palestinian children.

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