BBC Breaks Law by Failing to Say If It Made Calls to Israeli Embassy | Novara Media (2026-03-16)

BBC Breaks Law by Failing to Say If It Made Calls to Israeli Embassy | Novara Media (2026-03-16)

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>> The #BBC has broken the law by failing to give a “substantive response” to a Freedom of Information (#FOI) request asking if and when calls took place between its most senior figures and the Israeli embassy, the Information Commissioner’s Office (#ICO) has found.

>> The FOI request was submitted on 6 December last year by a former civil servant, who wished to remain anonymous. He told Novara Media he was concerned by the BBC’s biased coverage of Israel’s ongoing genocide in #Gaza...

>> The BBC’s coverage of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza was found to be systematically biased against Palestinians and consistently failed to reach standards of impartiality, according to research from the Centre for Media Monitoring (#CfMM)...

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