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BBC admits its commentator misled viewers on Gaza deaths

by  Assaf Golan and Israel Hayom Staff
Published on  06-24-2018 00:00
Last modified: 06-20-2022 09:41
BBC admits its commentator misled viewers on Gaza deaths

BBC host Andrew Marr

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British public broadcaster BBC over the weekend ‎rebuked one of its top hosts for breaching ‎editorial guidelines with a "misleading" claim that ‎Israel had killed "lots of Palestinian kids."‎

On April 8, Andrew Marr, the star of the eponymous ‎‎"The Andrew Marr‎ Show," concluded a discussion of ‎the Syrian regime's ‎chemical weapons attack on ‎civilians by saying, "And ‎the Middle East is aflame ‎again.‎ I mean there's lots of Palestinian kids being ‎‎killed further south as well by Israeli forces."‎

His ‎comments referred to clashes between Israeli ‎security ‎forces and Palestinian rioters in the Gaza ‎border. ‎

British media said the BBC's extraordinary ruling ‎against one of its top personalities is almost ‎unprecedented.‎

It follows a complaint by anti-Semitism campaigner ‎Jonathan Sacerdoti.‎

‎"When talking about a story on the use of chemical ‎weapons in Syria, Andrew Marr for some reason ‎decided to talk about Israel (which was unrelated ‎anyway). He stated there's a lot of Palestinian kids ‎being killed further south by Israeli forces," he ‎wrote in his complaint to the BBC.‎

‎"This is completely incorrect and is made up. This ‎was irrelevant to the conversation on Syria … and ‎also actually completely false."‎

The Daily Mail said that BBC producers initially ‎tried to defend Marr's comments, saying that several ‎Palestinian youths and children were killed in the ‎week following the broadcast, but Sacerdoti argued ‎that "later events could not be used to justify" ‎Marr's comments.‎

BBC Head of Editorial Complaints Fraser Steel wrote to Sacerdoti, saying, ‎‎"The BBC's guidelines require that output is well-sourced and based on sound evidence.‎

‎"In the absence of any evidence to support the ‎reference to 'lots' of children being killed at the ‎time of transmission, it seems to us to have risked ‎misleading audiences on a material point. We ‎therefore propose to uphold this part of your ‎complaint." ‎ ‎

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