Film-maker Ken
Loach yesterday tore into the BBC for its biased coverage of Israel’s
assault on Gaza as he joined an ongoing occupation outside the
broadcaster’s headquarters in Bristol.
Speaking to the Morning
Star from the front lawn of the BBC Bristol offices, Mr Loach said: “The
protesters are doing a terrific job even as the BBC is threatening to
get them evicted from the site.
“We should note that many
at the BBC, including senior staff, are embarrassed by the broadcaster’s
coverage that has an obvious pro-Israel bias.
“They don’t put the views
of Palestinians to the Israelis during interviews, while the use of
language about Gazans is pejorative and the war crimes being committed
against them ignored.
“They’re not ‘militants’ or
‘terrorists,’ they’re ‘resistance fighters.’ On the one side innocent
people are being massacred, while the other are setting off a few
fireworks.
“It’s the BBC, we own it, so it should be answerable.”
He believes BBC editors
will have no choice but to respond to the pressure but believes any
change to their broadcasting habits will be a “tactical” one.
Palestine campaigners have occupied the front lawn of the BBC building in Bristol for the last week.
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