{"id":142530,"date":"2023-10-22T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T10:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=142530"},"modified":"2023-10-22T10:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T10:26:51","slug":"israels-ex-pm-says-bbc-is-lacking-moral-clarity-in-its-war-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/world-news\/israels-ex-pm-says-bbc-is-lacking-moral-clarity-in-its-war-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&apos;s ex-PM says BBC is &apos;lacking moral clarity&apos; in its war coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Moment Israel&#8217;s ex-PM furiously accuses BBC of &#8216;lacking moral clarity&#8217; and &#8216;taking the side of Gazans&#8217; in its Israel-Hamas war coverage &#8211; before heated interview with Victoria Derbyshire is abruptly cut off<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Live feed to Tel Aviv cuts off as ex-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is mid-sentence<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s former Prime Minister furiously accused the BBC of bias and &#8216;lacking moral clarity&#8217; in its Israel-Hamas war coverage, shortly before his interview feed cut off prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>During the heated exchange, Naftali Bennett told the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme: &#8216;I understand the BBC has taken the Gazan side, because all your questions are only about the Gazan civilians&#8230;&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Host\u00a0Victoria Derbyshire then interjects &#8216;that&#8217;s not true&#8217; before the\u00a0politician continues, referencing Israeli families murdered by Hamas\u00a0terrorists on October 7: &#8216;You haven&#8217;t asked one question about those children from the very beginning of this interview, it seems you care very little about them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You only care about one side, that is the BBC way&#8230;\u00a0<span>If you think there is a balance here between two equal sides then you are lacking moral clarity. And BBC, I must say, is lacking moral clarity. What you guys did the past week, shame on you.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ms Derbyshire then protests: &#8216;Before I spoke to you Mr Bennett I spoke to a veteran Palestinian politician and I asked her about the massacre of Israeli civilians in southern Israel.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/10\/76857259-12658683-image-a-9_1697967405606.jpg\" height=\"351\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The feed to Tel Aviv cuts off while ex-Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0Naftali Bennett is mid-sentence<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, the extremely tense interview is abruptly cut short as Mr Bennett, speaking from Tel Aviv, disappears mid-sentence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ah apologies, I do apologise. I don&#8217;t know why the signal cut out at the end,&#8217; Ms Derbyshire rushes to explain before the camera pans back to the studio.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bennett&#8217;s comments came in response to the broadcaster speculating that an Israeli air strike was behind the explosion at a Gazan hospital which Palestinian authorities say killed hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC later admitted that while at &#8216;no point&#8217; did their reporter said &#8216;it was an Israeli air strike&#8217;, the report was &#8216;wrong to speculate&#8217; that Israel may have been at fault for the blast.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli government slammed the comments and later suggested that they could prevent the BBC from reporting in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on Israel&#8217;s X account said: &#8216;Hey @BBCWorld, as of this morning your modern blood libel about the hospital attack is still up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/10\/76857253-12658683-image-a-10_1697967441878.jpg\" height=\"351\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ah apologies, I do apologise. I don&#8217;t know why the signal cut out at the end,&#8217; Ms Derbyshire rushes to explain<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/10\/76857255-12658683-image-a-11_1697967451832.jpg\" height=\"351\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>During the heated exchange, Naftali Bennett told the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme: &#8216;I understand the BBC has taken the Gazan side&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We see you, and now everyone else does too.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel has stringently denied responsibility for the explosion, as has Hamas, with officials from across the globe trying to find the cause of the blast that killed hundreds of people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0BBC&#8217;s failure to call Hamas &#8216;terrorists&#8217; is fuelling anti-Semitism, making the world more dangerous for British Jews and exposes the corporation&#8217;s &#8216;bias&#8217; and &#8216;deep-rooted prejudice&#8217; towards Israel, ex-boss claims\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>It comes as an ex-boss at the corporation suggested that t<span>he <\/span>BBC<span>&#8216;s failure to call <\/span>Hamas<span>\u00a0&#8216;terrorists&#8217; is fueling anti-Semitism and making the world a more dangerous place for British Jews.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The BBC refers to Hamas as a &#8216;militant&#8217; group, despite it being proscribed a terrorist organisation in the UK, and described its slaughter of hundreds of innocent civilians as a &#8216;militant&#8217; attack.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, Danny Cohen, former television executive at the broadcaster, warned that the BBC&#8217;s &#8216;failures&#8217; over reporting had &#8216;dangerous, real-world consequences&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in The Telegraph,\u00a0Mr Cohen said his former employer&#8217;s reporting of the horrific explosion at the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City revealed a &#8216;bias and deep-rooted prejudice&#8217; at the corporation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the wake of a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the UK, Mr Cohen added: &#8216;When the BBC gets its reporting this badly wrong it fuels the dangerous poison of anti-Semitism.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has faced mounting pressure over its terminology since the war in the Middle East erupted. It said today that it did &#8216;not agree&#8217; with Mr Cohen&#8217;s characterisation adding that its &#8216;starting point is always impartiality&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the broadcaster has been roundly criticised by protesters and public figures for its refusal to call Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/10\/76820753-12658683-The_National_Jewish_Assembly_protested_the_BBC_s_refusal_to_labe-a-15_1697967960063.jpg\" height=\"393\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The National Jewish Assembly protesting the BBC&#8217;s refusal to label Hamas as terrorists last week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/10\/76820755-12658683-Members_of_the_Jewish_community_gather_outside_BBC_Broadcasting_-a-14_1697967946285.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Jewish community gather outside BBC Broadcasting House on Monday, October 16<\/p>\n<p>Among those who has piled pressure on the corporation is Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who said in an exclusive interview with the Mail: &#8216;I feel the BBC&#8217;s reporting is atrocious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The fact that it does not recognise Hamas as a terror organisation requires a complete legal battle and public battle. It&#8217;s unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What other type of torture do they want before they decide it was a terrorist organisation?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has been contacted for comment regarding this morning&#8217;s interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12658683\/Moment-Israels-ex-PM-furiously-accuses-BBC-lacking-moral-clarity-taking-Gazans-Israel-Hamas-war-coverage-heated-interview-Victoria-Derbyshire-abruptly-cut-off.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moment Israel&#8217;s ex-PM furiously accuses BBC of &#8216;lacking moral clarity&#8217; and &#8216;taking the side of Gazans&#8217; in its Israel-Hamas war coverage &#8211; before heated interview with Victoria Derbyshire is abruptly cut off Live feed to Tel Aviv cuts off as ex-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is mid-sentence Israel&#8217;s former Prime Minister furiously accused the BBC of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Israel&amp;apos;s ex-PM says BBC is &amp;apos;lacking moral clarity&amp;apos; 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