[kalekold]

Four top lawyers in the UK have asked the regulatory authority to investigate.

> In a letter to Ofcom, Lord Wolfson KC, Lord Pannick KC, Lord Grabiner KC and Jeremy Brier KC urged the regulator to investigate the corporation.

> The authors of the letter said that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and “that is not a matter of debate or discussion. It is a matter of legal fact.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/bbc-not-calling-...

[bananapub]

you'll note they haven't sent a letter to Ofcom about any story on GBNews, of course.

[monooso]

Assuming you read the article, you appear to have missed the point.

The BBC isn't saying that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation, any more than they said the Nazis weren't evil during WWII.

Impartiality is a founding principle of the organisation. The BBC presents the facts, the rest of us (including the aforementioned lawyers) can use those facts to form an opinion.

As for the Telegraph article, just because the UK government has decided to classify Hamas as a terrorist organisation, it does make that description a universal fact. The BBC is a global organisation, not beholden to the opinion of the UK government, thankfully.

[TacticalCoder]

> The BBC isn't saying that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation, any more than they said the Nazis weren't evil during WWII.

They say they refuse to call it a terrorist organization, with weasel wording to try to hide their true colors.

Here's the fact: there are 18% of israelis, with passport and nationality from isreal, who are palestinians (out of 21% of arabs living in Israel).

How many percentage of jewish are living in Gaza? Not even percentage: just invididuals. How many jewish people are in Gaza? The answer is worse than 0: all the jewish people in Gaza are hostages.

Israel is retaliating and killing a lot of people, but they're not beheading babies (which apparently Hamas really did) and they're not executing innocent teenager girls at point blank.

They're not parading with dead innocent girls' naked bodies in pick-up trucks in Tel-Aviv.

And the 18% of palestinian living in Israel are free people and not hostages.

If you go out and kill teenagers (including non-jewish tourists) having fun at a music festival and behead babies, you're a terrorist organization.

Hamas is a terrorist organization which has always lived with the anti-semitism at its roots and which want to see the state of Israel disappear. There's no open discussion about whether Hamas is a terrorist organization or not.

The BBC showed their true color trying to pretend "people can make up their mind".

What I'm sure though is that all the anti-semitic people reading / watching the BBC are very happy that the BBC refused to called Hamas for the terrorists they are.