In recent weeks, since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—backed by the US and Israel—replaced UNRWA in distributing aid to Gaza, the attacks on Israel in the West have reached a fever pitch never seen before. Hamas is visibly failing and cornered. Its stranglehold depended almost entirely on controlling UNRWA aid—often stolen and resold—giving it power. That pillar has now collapsed, and so has their narrative dominance.
You’d be forgiven for thinking you’ve slipped into some alternate reality lately. A reality where words don’t mean what they used to, victims become villains, and facts are as negotiable as the price of fish on a Polish market stall. Welcome to the global information war against Israel — a propaganda campaign so twisted that even Orwell would struggle to keep up.
We are witnessing something unprecedented: a moral inversion on a global scale, where Israel — the one liberal democracy in a sea of terror regimes — is vilified daily as a genocidal oppressor, while its attackers are humanised, excused, and often glorified. And nowhere is this gaslighting more professionally executed than by our very own BBC.
The Machinery of Mendacity
In what has become a grotesque ritual, mainstream media platforms — led by the likes of BBC, Sky, The New York Times and their assorted NGO appendages — recycle every Hamas press release as gospel. Israel’s defenders barely get a word in edgewise, unless it's to be shouted down, smeared, or simply cut from the broadcast entirely.
Take BBC Arabic: since October 7, this branch of the national broadcaster has racked up over 80 official corrections to its coverage. Eighty. That’s not journalism; that’s malpractice on an industrial scale.
BBC Arabic journalists have referred to Hamas terrorists as "the resistance," sympathetically platformed individuals who celebrated the October 7 pogrom, and even produced content questioning whether the massacres at Kfar Aza actually happened. You know, the small matter of Jews butchered in their homes — perhaps a little too controversial to confirm, according to some brave souls in the BBC editorial department.
And yet Director-General Tim Davie assures us that BBC Arabic is something "we should be proud of". Indeed. One wonders if he’d express equal pride had his staff endorsed the Christchurch mosque massacre as “a morning of hope.” Of course not — and rightly so. But when it comes to Jewish victims, moral standards are oddly elastic.
Feeding The Pogrom Machine
On Sunday, the usual massacre narrative reared its head again: “31 Palestinians killed at a humanitarian aid site in southern Gaza.” Eyewitnesses, Palestinian Ministry of Health and doctors on the ground said Israeli gunfire was responsible. Hamas-affiliated channels called it a trap and the media dutifully spread the story—without verification. But the massacre never happened.
The IDF issued denial, admitting only warning shots at would-be looters. Then the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation released security footage—no gunfire, no killings. Israel’s drones captured masked gunmen firing at civilians. People on the ground said Hamas provoked it. You decide which sounds more plausible: a splinter cell of altruistic soldiers ambushing civilians, or Hamas staging violence to stop aid bypassing its clutches.
By Sunday evening, publications quietly updated or removed their stories altogether after footage review revealed nothing to support claims. This chronic failure to verify Hamas sources has plagued Gaza coverage for decades—the international media hadn’t been present; their Gaza contacts all passed through Hamas media, so nothing gets reported without approval.
The Doctors Who Always Know
Of course, every good propaganda campaign needs its moral authority figures. Enter the foreign doctors.
Western physicians working in Gaza, quoted by organisations like Doctors Without Borders, obligingly tell media outlets that their patients report being shot "from all sides" by Israeli forces. These doctors, parachuted into Hamas-controlled hospitals, somehow always manage to repeat whatever narrative Hamas requires, never pausing to question their sources or surroundings.
British doctor Victoria Rose went on BBC airwaves describing "absolute carnage" at one of these aid sites — repeating Hamas’ version of events almost verbatim, without the inconvenience of actually verifying who was responsible.
Of course, asking questions would be terribly impolite when your hosts are known to throw dissenters off rooftops.
Enter Lord Sumption: The Respectable Face of the Blood Libel
As if BBC’s regular programming weren’t enough, we now have former UK Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption entering stage left. Interviewed by the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen, Sumption happily suggested that Israel is behaving like its historical persecutors and committing genocide. The undisguised implication? That Israel is acting like Nazis—and that, according to the International Definition of Antisemitism, is itself antisemitic. To hear a veteran jurist echo such a comparison is appalling. What hope can British Jews have when a senior judge espouses this garbage?
Now, it’s always possible — though in this case unlikely — that Sumption was misquoted. Bowen's reputation in the Jewish community isn’t exactly stellar, after all. But what we do know is that both the BBC’s senior Middle East correspondent and one of Britain’s most respected jurists egged each other on to vilify Israel using rhetoric that echoes centuries of Jew-hatred.
Perhaps they should take their own advice about "remembering the past." Jews hardly need to be lectured on the subject.
When Ceasefires Don’t Fit The Script
Odd, isn’t it? For all the wailing about Gaza’s suffering, there’s deafening silence every time Hamas rejects ceasefire offers. Israel has repeatedly agreed to pauses, to humanitarian access, to hostage swaps. Hamas rejects these — not because they're unreasonable, but because ongoing suffering serves its media war better.
If Israel stopped fighting tomorrow, Hamas would simply regroup, rearm and begin planning the next October 7th.
One might ask why these passionate Gaza supporters never protest Hamas’ ongoing rejectionism. Why don’t we see marches demanding Hamas release its hostages? Why no chants calling on Hamas to stop hiding among civilians? Why no hashtags saying: “Hamas — accept the ceasefire”?
We know why. Because the goal isn’t peace; it’s destruction. The activists don’t want Gaza freed from Hamas. They want Israel eliminated. And the media — knowingly or not — provide the soundtrack.
Enter Hamas Math
Hamas has its own twisted calculus — let's call it “Hamas Math.” It works like this:
They fire rockets from school rooftops. Israel responds by destroying the launchers. Hamas blames Israel for hitting the school.
They build 350 miles of terror tunnels instead of safe rooms, then accuse Israel of failing to protect civilians.
They steal aid, sell it back to Gazans at inflated prices, then cry famine. When Israel delivers 300,000 tons of aid, they claim genocide by neglect.
That’s Hamas Math—where the blame is always shifted and the story reversed, and Western media either go along or don't look too closely. When Caroline Leavitt from the White House criticised the BBC’s repeated unverified headlines (“Israeli tank kills 26….”), BBC “fact‑checker” Ross Atkins responded by defending the practice: the BBC sources came from the Red Cross and Gazan health ministry—sources completely under Hamas’s thumb, no less.
This disparity in scepticism—thorough checks on the White House, but none on Hamas—is a telling institutional failure.
The Imported Pogrom
And the poison is no longer contained to the Middle East. Jewish students across Western campuses now live in daily fear. At Columbia, protesters chant “October 7th will happen again — 10,000 times.” At UCLA, checkpoints were set up to block Jewish students from entering campus. In Amsterdam, Jewish fans were hunted through the streets by knife-wielding mobs.
In London, synagogues are under police protection, memorials to October 7 victims are defaced, and politicians are routinely intimidated during elections by Islamist extremists.
This isn’t criticism of Israeli policy. This is the modern mutation of an ancient hatred — a pogrom now delivered through press releases, tweets and TikTok videos.
The BBC’s Industrial Gaslighting
At the centre of this moral collapse sits the BBC, draped in its self-righteous banner of “impartiality.” They are not merely failing their audience. They are actively enabling antisemitism.
When asked in Parliament to account for BBC Arabic’s record, Director-General Davie waved it off as being “managed pretty well actually” — a masterclass in bureaucratic contempt.
In private, BBC executives admit to more than 100 breaches of impartiality — but insist they remain committed to accuracy. One wonders how many “errors” it takes before the institution stops blaming technical oversight and starts admitting moral bankruptcy.
The BBC likes to tell us: "We cover all sides." But strangely, it only seems to offer equal sympathy to terrorists when the victims are Jewish.
The Collapse of Western Integrity
This isn’t merely about Israel. It’s about whether facts matter at all. If Western media, politics and academia can invert reality so completely on this issue, then truth itself is no longer a foundation — it’s become a commodity. Whoever screams loudest, wins.
And once you declare that some victims matter more than others — that Jewish victims are uniquely expendable — don’t fool yourself into thinking the cancer will stop at Israel. It never does.
This is no longer a debate about Gaza. It’s about whether Western liberal values have the strength to survive their own moral cowardice.
The hour is late. The stakes are higher than most people yet understand. And if we fail to call this out — clearly, forcefully, and repeatedly — we will wake one day to discover that October 7 was not the end of something horrific.
It was the beginning.