BBC Editor Accused of Serving Israeli Interests
January 3, 2025BBC staffers have revealed that editor Raffi Berg exercises full control over the outlet’s online reporting on Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, ensuring all coverage favors Israel, according to a new report.
Drop Site News, in a report published on December 28, said it spoke to 13 current and former staffers who said that the BBC’s coverage consistently dehumanizes Palestinians and ignores Israeli crimes in Gaza where close to 45,500 Palestinians have been killed.
“[Berg’s] entire job is to water down everything that’s too critical of Israel,” one former BBC journalist said.
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Now there’s a huge amount in the piece, including about allegations made by staff about the, as I mentioned before, the BBC’s online Middle East, and it’s Raffi Berg. And the BBC came back and said the allegations you’ve made fundamentally misdescribe this person’s role and misunderstand the way the BBC works. More broadly, we reject any suggestion of a lenient stance towards either side in this conflict. The Israel-Gaza conflict is a challenging and polarizing subject to cover, but when asked to choose the one provider they would turn to for impartial reporting on this story, three times as many pick the BBC as choose our closest competitor. The BBC remains the world’s most trusted international news source. Well, you have to read the piece to see what the allegations are and why the BBC staff reject them. The BBC argument is that basically I’m overstating, in the case of Raffi Berg, his role and his influence, that’s his claim, uh the claim of the BBC. That’s what they say. Now, what I would say is I put a vast amount of work and time. I spoke to obviously, 13 BBC staff, overwhelmingly still there, that corroborated their accounts. I saw the evidence, obviously all got legaled by lawyer I hired and then by dropsite uses lawyers, and you have to be completely aboveboard in these situations. That’s why it’s taking so many months and sleepless nights. I want to do more of these investigations, obviously. But obviously it’s time and resources.
