The BBC Led the League in Pushing Hamas Propaganda in 2025
2nd January 2026
It was a terrible year for the British Broadcasting Corporation, which still has such an overhyped global reputation as the gold standard for media. Several websites tagged the BBC as the worst outlet in 2025, and it wasn’t really about its mangling of Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech that caused Trump to file a defamation lawsuit.
It was about the BBC’s horribly biased coverage of Israel and Gaza. Brittany Bernstein of National Review put the BBC at the top of their list of “Worst Media Misses of 2025.” The pro-Israel media watchdog Honest Reporting tagged the BBC as the “Dishonest Reporter of the Year.” And the dishonesty started early.
Both NR and Honest Reporting noted that in February, BBC executives pulled its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone after an investigative journalist found the film’s narrator Abdullah — “the emotional centerpiece of the film” — was the teenage son of a Hamas minister. Oops. And his mother had been paid by the production company responsible for the program.