The BBC isn’t the only media outlet in the limelight at the moment over its coverage of Israel‘s genocide in Gaza. Because Channel 4 has also come under attack from campaigners who want to censor reporting that holds the journalist-murdering apartheid state to account for its war crimes.
Channel 4: attacked by the Zionist lobby
The BBC has faced a landslide of criticism for pulling a documentary under pressure from pro-Israel agitators, primarily as a result of its narration by 13-year-old Abdullah al-Yazuri, whose father is “a deputy minister of agriculture in Gaza’s government”.
But now, just as Channel 4 has broadcast a powerful account of Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Palestine through the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, it too has faced the same charge. The UK establishment media has piled onto Channel 4, which also featured al-Yazuri in some of its coverage. Channel 4 News has insisted that it has reviewed and deleted some of this, but that its “award-winning coverage, including the International Emmy, RTS, Bafta, British Journalism Awards, or Broadcast Awards” does not feature the teenager.
Israeli occupiers spent many years turning Gaza into “the world’s largest open-air prison”. It is a place with a highly concentrated population which Israel has isolated from the outside world via a brutal blockade. In the context, it’s reasonable to assume that there are many people whose family members work in some way in or with the occupied territory’s government. Highlighting this is as relevant as highlighting that most Israelis serve in the Israeli occupation forces (IDF).
