By Leo Pearlman

The leaked Prescott Report is the final, damning confirmation of what so many of us have said for years, that our national broadcaster has been doing exactly what we’ve accused it of doing all along.

The truth is no longer deniable.

It is the inevitable conclusion to one of the most shameful chapters in the BBC’s history, a story of how a minority community was gaslit, lied to, and endangered from the top down. The results are not abstract. They’ve made Jews less safe, not only here in Britain, but anywhere the BBC’s influence reaches.

The report shows, in black and white, that BBC coverage “minimised Israeli suffering” while “painting Israel as the aggressor.” 

That it “raced to air allegations against Israel without adequate checks,” driven by a “desire always to believe the worst about Israel.”

And then comes the truly sickening part: BBC Arabic, part of the World Service, gave a platform to journalists who had publicly called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did.” One appeared 244 times in 18 months. Another, who described Jews as “devils,” appeared 522 times.

“Balance” has become the word used to justify bigotry, to excuse bias, to disguise........

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