LAAS comments featured in The Times and Telegraph
LAAS lodge formal BBC complaint
LAAS complaint to BBC in the Times and Telegraph
LAAS complaint to the BBC featured in The Times and Telegraph
The TImes
‘Alex Hearn co-director of LAAS has filed a complaint to the BBC. He said:
“This documentary appears to have been a failure of due diligence by the BBC, with Hamas propaganda promoted as reliable fact at the taxpayers’ expense.”
He said. “There needs to be an urgent investigation into how this happened once again.”'
The Telegraph
"Hamas propaganda promoted as reliable fact" antisemitism campaigners say"
The campaign group Labour Against Antisemitism has lodged a formal complaint to the BBC about the broadcast, claiming that the team failed to properly vet the documentary’s subjects.
Alex Hearn, from Labour Against Antisemitism, said:
“This documentary appears to have been a failure of due diligence by the BBC, with Hamas propaganda promoted as reliable fact at the taxpayers’ expense. There needs to be an urgent investigation into how this happened once again.”
“Misinformation is the story of the Israel-Hamas conflict, and this is not an isolated case. There has been a failure of news platforms to adequately scrutinise sources and a willingness to regurgitate Hamas disinformation repeatedly.”
