BBC deletes documentary on suffering of Gaza kids indefinitely after Israel lobby pressure

skwawkbox.org Breaking: BBC deletes documentary on suffering of Gaza kids indefinitely after Israel lobby pressure

Corporation claims it needs to review programme content and removes it from its iPlayer service The iPlayer programme page this morning. The BBC has removed its documentary ‘Gaza: How to Surv…

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BBC deletes documentary on suffering of Gaza kids indefinitely after Israel lobby pressure

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Even ignoring the subject matter, it must feel great to work on a documentary only to have some shitty country have your work taken down.
- That's how censorship works... Westoid normies just thinks it if fine when they do it to the bad people.
  This line of reasoning is getting increasingly hard to maintain when the "good" guys are doing a genocide but the regime will keep doing it.

The documentary can be see here: kalamullah.com/gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone DOT html
Reason for the film's removal TLDR narrator is son of a civil servant in Gaza Department of Agriculture. Racist genocide enthusiasts call this son of Hamas official. Aka genocide coverup

Journalism has become spineless
- BBC in particular (who I would expect better from) are particularly anti-Palestinian and propping up Israel's narrative.
- Not sure what the private media/journalism ownership is here, one of the many things I keep meaning to inform myself about. Obviously the BBC is meant to be an independent, unbiased source of information. In Canada the CBC fulfills the same niche. Neither are safe from outside pressure, or lazy reporting.
  The vast majority of private journalism media in Canada is owned by Canadian media holding conglomerate Postmedia(bit too on the nose if you ask me). It's in turn 66% owned by American Media Conglomerate Chatham Asset Management. It's a bit of a piss take, as media in Canada is meant to be majority Canadian ownership. But there it is.
  
  Excellent comment. I try to keep up with who owns what too, but it's kinda like keeping track of food brands. There only so many owners, but the huge amount of brands (news sources) can make it difficult.
  
  Obviously the BBC is meant to be an independent, unbiased source of information
  Where did you get that idea ?
  The BBC is state apparatus.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9et7a6
- Anyone able to download & seed this? I'd like to download & help seed when I'm able to get to my PC.
  
  It's not a torrent, daily motion is like a youtube or vimeo competitor. There's torrents of it too though, but I dunno what public trackers are good these days.

Israel lobby is a security risk but here we be

It has been taken down because the kid involved is the son of a Hamas official, so there's questions surrounding the authenticity and accuracy of the reporting. He's not an ordinary Palestinian.
- That is the Zionist line. The narrator's dad is a civil servant in the Department of Agriculture. Very scary.
- By that logic, Israel's a fascist ethnostate committing genocide, so we shouldn't show their reporting because "there's questions around the authenticity and accuracy of their reporting".
  
  Nahh mate... Let me tell you about beheaded Jewish babies🤡
  
  That's antisemitic
  
  Yeah, that's what they do on a news report.
  There's no documentaries claiming to give an unbiased viewpoint from an ordinary Israeli though.
- Source
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/feb/21/bbc-pulls-gaza-documentary-iplayer-hamas

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