14 July 2025, 16:41

By Claudia Mendoza

Back in February, I, like many others within the Jewish community, was shocked when it was revealed that a BBC2 documentary titled Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, was narrated by a 14-year-old boy, Abdullah, who turned out to be the son of a high-ranking Hamas official.

Although the BBC's decision to cancel this documentary was welcome, there needed to be a reckoning as to how this came to happen. I therefore welcome the editorial review into this documentary, led by Peter Johnston, which found that the documentary breached the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines on accuracy due to the failure to disclose the narrator's connection to Hamas.

This was not a minor oversight; it was “critical........

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