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War on Gaza: How the BBC sanitises Israel's genocide <article data-history-node-id="424413" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/war-gaza-how-bbc-sanitises-israels-genocide" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/war-gaza-how-bbc-sanitises-israels-genocide" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">War on Gaza: How the BBC sanitises Israel's genocide</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The BBC, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">Britain</a>’s most powerful media institution, has played a pivotal role in shaping public understanding of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>’s war on Gaza - and in doing so, has repeatedly chosen to obscure, minimise and sanitise one of the most brutal <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza" target="_blank">military campaigns</a> of the 21st century.</p> <p>A comprehensive <a href="https://cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-israel-one-story-double-standards/" target="_blank">new report</a> by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) reveals a damning pattern in the BBC’s coverage of the war: a relentless privileging of Israeli voices, a dehumanisation of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> suffering, and a willful refusal to name - let alone interrogate - the context of occupation, siege and apartheid that underpins this catastrophe.</p> <p>This is not about minor editorial missteps. It is about a systematic failure to treat Palestinians as fully human - as people whose lives and deaths deserve to be represented with the same dignity, gravity and moral clarity afforded to Israelis. </p> <p>It is about a publicly funded broadcaster abandoning its duty of impartiality in favour of a deeply politicised, one-sided narrative.</p> <p>From the outset of Israel’s assault on Gaza following Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack, the BBC framed the war not as a continuation of decades of colonisation, blockade and dispossession, but as a symmetrical clash between two sides.</p> <h3>Read more: <a data-qa="message_attachment_title_link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-gaza-war-bbc-sanitises-israels-genocide-how" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">War on Gaza: How the BBC sanitises Israel's genocide</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/uk-london-bbc-protest-march-2025-benjamin-cremel-afp.jpg.jpg?itok=BwoF2MP4"></p> </div> </div> </article> https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/war-gaza-how-bbc-sanitises-israels-genocide