The BBC violated its editorial guidelines over 1,500 times in its Israel-Hamas War coverage.
The Asserson report, which scrutinized 9 million words from four months of reporting, exposes serious anti-Israel bias, with issues spanning impartiality, accuracy, editorial values, and public interest.
For example, despite its promise to label Hamas as "terrorists" after the October 7 massacre, the BBC only referred to Hamas as a terrorist organization 3.2% of the time.
This isn't a new problem; the BBC has long faced allegations of anti-Israel bias and even spent half a million dollars to keep its findings concealed.
Lebanon-based Palestinian researcher Hesham Dibsi slammed Hamas in an August 30, 2024 video posted on Voice of Lebanon on YouTube. He said that Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people, but rather it is a Sunni-Islamic project, similar to the Iranian Shiite-Islamic enterprise.
Dibsi criticized Hamas leader abroad Khaled Mashal for calling upon Palestinians to return to suicide operations
and increase the escalation with Israel, meanwhile Mashal is sitting in Qatar luxury hotels.