A new report into the BBC’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war revealed Britain’s flagship news service broke its own reporting guidelines on more than 1,500 occasions since Hamas’ Oct. 7 onslaught.
The research revealed a “deeply worrying pattern of bias” against Israel, according to its authors who analyzed four months of the BBC’s output across television, radio, online news, podcasts and social media, according to the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
British-Israeli lawyer Trevor Asserson – a long-term BBC critic – led the research, which used artificial intelligence to analyze a breakdown of certain terms – including “genocide” – over the first four months of the Israel-Hamas war, which produced alarming statistics.
Asserson’s team included some 20 researchers and 20 data scientists who, using artificial intelligence, trawled through some nine million words of coverage across several languages and various platforms. The Spectator will release the report – which runs to some 100 pages – on Monday.
Indeed, the analysis showed Israel was linked to the term “genocide” more than 14 times the number Hamas was, despite the fact the Gazan terrorists entered southern Israel on Oct. 7 with the intention – by its own admission – of slaughtering as many