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'Yeah': BBC presenter appears to side with Hamas during interview

The host Tadhg Enright was interviewing Omar Shakir, the regional director of Human Rights Watch, on Israel's decision to shut down the pro-Hamas Al-Jazeera's operations in Israel. The host said "Yeah," when the guest said Israel was carrying out atrocities.

by  Erez Linn
Published on  05-06-2024 08:28
Last modified: 06-03-2024 14:21
'Yeah': BBC presenter appears to side with Hamas during interviewBBC News

Tadhg Enright interviewing Omar Shakir, May 5, 2024 | Screenshot: BBC News

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In an interview on the BBC on Monday the host of the UK news channel appeared to agree with a false claim made by an activist that the Jewish state was committing atrocities in the war in the Gaza Strip.

The host Tadhg Enright was interviewing Omar Shakir, the regional director of Human Rights Watch, on Israel's decision to shut down the pro-Hamas Qatari-based channel Al-Jazeera's operations in the country.

When asked by host Enright for his reaction, Shakir did not mince words. "This is an assault on the freedom of the press," he stated. "Al-Jazeera is a critical source of information that many Palestinians and others in the region rely upon. Instead of trying to muzzle reporting on atrocities, the Israeli government should stop committing them."

Video: Netanyahu delivers a message in English during his Holocaust Remembrance Day speech / Credit: Yad Vashem

Enright then noted "Yeah, indeed," presumably agreeing with the claim that Israel was carrying out atrocities. He then went on to ask Shakir, "I wonder what their claim, the Israeli government's claim is that Al Jazeera has become a mouthpiece for Hamas."

The Qatar-based network has vocally denied the charges that it has been pro-Hamas, but in recent weeks it has consistently shown to have sided with the terrorist group's false claims of mass killings, including in cases where it was clear Hamas was using bodies as props and falsifying numbers, even after Israel showed those claims to be false (as in the case of an aid truck being attacked by a mob, which caused deaths when people trampled on each other without Israel's involvement, and the slander against Israel of supposedly creating mass graves in a hospital, where it turned out to be Hamas' own creation).

This is not the first time the BBC has been accused of being slanted toward the Palestinian terrorist organization, and immediately after the war broke out in October it has refused to call the Islamic group a terrorist group. It later said it would use that term to describe the organization as being a "proscribed terrorist group by the UK," although presumably without claiming it was indeed such a group.

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