Matti Friedman

Matti Friedman

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It's not just the BBC. Since the Hamas takeover in 2007, media coverage inside Gaza has been a simulacrum of reality produced by "journalists" who fear Hamas, identify with Hamas, or belong to Hamas. This documentary (unpacked by @mishtal) is a good example of how it works

Nicole Lampert

Nicole Lampert

Former BBC boss @DannyCohen on the BBC Hamas propaganda documentary: ‘This is a very serious crisis for the BBC. It means that our national broadcaster distributed terrorist propaganda to the homes of licence-fee payers. In an initial statement, the corporation conrmed that it had “full editorial control” of the programme. Yet 24 hours later it claimed the complete opposite, announcing that “the production team had full editorial control of lming with Abdullah”.