Following weeks of backlash the BBC will reportedly no longer refer to Hamas as “militants” opting instead to describe them as “a proscribed terrorist organisation” or simply “Hamas.” This shift in policy by the public service broadcaster was announced by the Board of Deputies of British Jews in a press release on Friday, after the
It’s really repulsive that a news organization trying to be factual and relatively neutral is badgered into changing its speech.
I agree with the sentiment, but I don’t see the facts aligning with BBC’s claim of abstaining from using the label.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60322508
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55861305
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58281243
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57274312
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/14854818
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33253598
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zy7nqhv/revision/9
The Beeb is a big operation, with genuine humans reporting and editing 24/7/365. Things will always slip by. I appreciated the policy, is all.