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From Gary Lineker’s factless musings to the BBC worker who called Jews ‘Nazi apartheid parasites’. From BBC Arabic having to correct mistakes every 48 hours to headlining stories on OCTOBER 7 as ‘Israeli revenge attacks’: a new report lays out why many Jewish people believe not only that the BBC is institutionally antisemitic but that it is creating antisemitism in this country and around the world. This report details how: • On the day of the 7 October massacre, while the rest of Britain’s media were detailing the brutality of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the BBC led its coverage with a headline about “Israeli revenge attacks”. • The BBC broadcast interviews in the immediate aftermath of the atrocity with Hamas apologists who used their platform to make comments which the BBC was forced to admit were “offensive”. • The BBC refused to call Hamas “terrorists” because it would be seen as “taking sides”, only to back down following days of criticism. • The BBC reported that an ‘Israeli strike’ killed ‘hundreds’ at the Al-Ahli hospital: thereby repeating, legitimising and reinforcing entirely false claims that directly caused unrest in some European and Middle Eastern countries, including serious arson attacks upon synagogues. • The BBC failed to remove articles suggesting the same hospital blast may have been caused by the Israeli military, even after the BBC admitted it got its reporting wrong. • The BBC incorrectly reported that Israeli soldiers had been “targeting” medical teams and Arab speakers as they hunted Hamas terrorists in a hospital, when instead they actually had brought medical teams and Arab speakers with them to help the patients during the military operation. • A senior BBC executive admitted inaccuracies had “real world consequences” for British Jews but were inevitable because of the “fog of war”. • The BBC aired an edited interview with French President Macron which was highly critical of Israel only for French diplomats to insist it was not a fair representation of his views. • The BBC published an article that wrongly claimed a UN report had warned “half of Gaza’s population is starving” and peddled a Hamas propaganda line that Gaza had become a “polio epidemic zone”. • The BBC failed to investigate claims babies were beheaded by Hamas terrorists in a kibbutz massacre on 7 October – despite the issue dominating other news outlets’ coverage and British political debate for days. • The BBC was forced to correct an article that described Iran’s bombardment of 300 rockets fired into Israel as “dozens” of “objects”. • The BBC took no action against five BBC Arabic reporters placed under investigation for offensive social media posts in the wake of the 7 October massacre. • At the height of the conflict, BBC Arabic was forced to correct articles on average every 48 hours, including copy that referred to Hamas as the “resistance”. • BBC Arabic platformed one guest who had previously referred to the 7 October massacre as a “heroic military miracle” and another who described Hamas atrocities against innocent Israelis as “necessary”. • BBC Arabic was forced to purge articles from its website including one that asked whether the Kfar Aza kibbutz atrocities really happened. • BBC Arabic failed to moderate antisemitic and offensive comments on its YouTube channel and encouraged a discussion about whether the killing of a 79-year-old Israeli woman was “terrorism” or “resistance”. • The BBC failed to remove graphs from its website that purported to show that 70 per cent of Gazan fatalities were women and children – after those figures were shown to be inaccurate. • The BBC routinely quoted figures produced by the Hamas Health Ministry without highlighting it as a terrorist-run organisation, and routinely failed to stress in reporting that Hamas fatality figures are unverifiable and include thousands of Hamas terrorists.