Another Day, Another BBC Lie

Pulling apart the broadcaster’s Gaza famine fairy tale with wit and facts

So, famine in Gaza is supposedly Israel’s “master plan.” Cute story—too tidy for a messy reality. Even by the article’s own maths, the headline doesn’t match the mechanics: it says ~600 trucks a day are needed and no more than half are getting through. That gap doesn’t scream “padlocked border”; it screams last-mile chaos—looting, rackets, and no functioning authority between a warehouse and a saucepan.

What’s really choking aid? Breakdown of order. The World Food Programme itself suspended deliveries to Gaza’s north in Feb 2024 after armed attacks on their convoys. Not because Israel parked the trucks, but because no one could keep the gunmen at bay. Reuters and OCHA updates since have been a greatest-hits album of “can’t guarantee safety, convoys looted, fuel hijacked.” At one point Hamas even set up an “anti-looting” force. If you need an anti-looting squad to stop your own people from ransacking aid, you don’t have a famine problem—you have a gangster problem.

Meanwhile, the article solemnly leans on Gaza’s Health Ministry—also known as Hamas’s PR department—for its death tallies. Even the piece itself admits it. You’d think journalists might, I don’t know, treat figures pumped out by a terror group with a pinch of salt.

The IPC, bless them, waves a red famine map for Gaza. But here’s the trick: for Gaza only, they halved the malnutrition threshold from 30% to 15%, then ditched actual height/weight data and instead used Hamas-supplied “mid-upper arm” figures. Translation: moved the goalposts and asked the fox to count the starving hens. The poster kids for Gaza’s famine? Many weren’t starving at all—they had cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, liver disease. But who needs facts when emaciated children make for great copy?

Morally, of course, every child deserves food. But blaming the fire brigade while arsonists block the road is backwards. History isn’t coy here: Somalia’s 2011 famine was magnified when al-Shabaab blocked aid and terrorised distributors. Civilians starved fastest not because ships refused to dock, but because militias turned flour sacks into bargaining chips. Gaza today looks a lot like that—armed groups choke supplies, then blame the Jews.

And let’s be honest: this obsession with singling out Israel isn’t humanitarian, it’s pathological. Over 123 million people worldwide are displaced—Sudan, Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine. Pakistan just booted nearly two million Afghans in 2023, the population of Gaza, and the world shrugged. No protests, no Guardian think pieces, no campus encampments. Only Palestinians are preserved in permanent limbo, their “refugee status” passed down like a family heirloom. Why? Because their suffering is too useful as a weapon against the Jewish state to ever solve.

Israel is the only nation told it must not only fight a terror group hiding behind civilians but also feed, house, and shelter those same civilians indefinitely. That isn’t morality—it’s masochism. And it’s unique. The world doesn’t ask Sudan or Syria or Pakistan, “But where will they go?” It only asks the Jews. Because Jewish decency isn’t applauded—it’s punished.

So yes, people are hungry in Gaza. But famine as an “Israeli inevitability”? No. It’s a story manufactured by Hamas, embellished by aid bureaucrats, and swallowed whole by a Western media class that needs its morality tale of the evil Jew. The tragedy isn’t that food can’t reach Gaza. It’s that the real obstacles—gangsters with guns, international hypocrisy, and the weaponisation of suffering—get ignored.

Enter the BBC, Stage Left

And despite David Collier and other journalists unearthing the fakery, the BBC still clings to Hamas’s stage-managed “Public Enlightenment” & Propaganda Ministry like it’s the Ten Commandments on stone tablets. They recycle images from those phoney photoshoots as if Gaza’s a Vogue spread for misery. It’s not journalism, it’s propaganda cosplay.

Let’s be honest: the BBC these days feels less like “Auntie Beeb” and more like Auntie Fatwa — influenced by Islamists, run by far-left extremists, and staffed by editors who’d fact-check Israel’s lunch menu before ever questioning Hamas’s body-count bingo. If you squint hard enough, their newsroom looks like a Green-Red alliance cocktail party, with Hamas stringers serving canapés and Corbynistas pouring the wine.

If you want to see how far this charade goes, I’ve written about Hamas’s cynical exploitation of children in Children of Gaza: Stolen Childhoods. Spoiler: it’s darker than a BBC producer’s Twitter feed at 2 a.m.

And if reading isn’t enough, watch my short documentary (below). Trust me, it’s shorter than a BBC correction notice — and a hell of a lot more honest.

WATCH MY SHORT DOCUMENTARY:

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