It seems satire is alive and well at the BBC. How else to explain a senior BBC executive – still in post after the resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness – defending the deeply flawed output of the corporation’s Arabic service by claiming it is “almost as trusted as Al-Jazeera”?
Sadly, Jonathan Munro, the BBC’s global news director under whose remit BBC Arabic falls, was not joking. He had been referring to an audience survey showing that the service ranked just behind Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-run broadcaster widely regarded as a Hamas mouthpiece – an allegation the Qatar-run broadcaster denies.
Munro’s boast came as a private response to overwhelming evidence that BBC Arabic has given grotesquely disproportionate prominence to Hamas narratives in its coverage of the Gaza war.
(Read the rest of CAMERA’s Nov. 17, 2025 essay at the Jewish Chronicle)
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