The BBC has a long and inglorious history of having to apologize for anti-Israel reporting and Tuesday was just the latest installment.
This time, on Christmas Eve, a BBC radio report repeated the Hamas claim that the Israeli Army was conducting summary executions in Gaza. Over two weeks later, the network that many love to hail as the gold standard in reporting objectivity wrote on its Corrections and Clarifications website:
In overnight output we ran a story about Hamas accusing the Israeli army of carrying out summary executions in the Gaza strip. This was a Hamas statement, but although the accusations were attributed and our story contained a response from the Israeli military saying they were unaware of the incident and that Hamas was a terrorist organisation that did not value truth, we had not made sufficient effort to seek corroborating…
