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The [documentary] production company's founder, Ben de Pear, said earlier this week the BBC had "utterly failed" and that journalists were "being stymied and silenced".

BBC News understands the decision to shelve the documentary was taken on Thursday, following public comments by De Pear at the Sheffield Documentary Festival, and another of the film's directors, journalist Ramita Navai, who appeared on Radio 4's Today discussing the war in Gaza.

Navai told the programme Israel had "become a rogue state that's committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing and mass murdering Palestinians". Israel has denied accusations of war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

TLDR: BBC refuses to run documentary about doctors in Gaza they comissioned because someone involved it is says Israel is committing ethnic cleansing. I think this is one of the most obvious examples on how biased the BBC is towards this situation.

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/35265

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I really want the pandemic—the hundreds of millions with Long Covid, the tens of millions dead—to mean something. Like cleaner indoor air, normalised masking, funding for post-viral illnesses. Instead, we got mask bans, disability cuts and an anti-vaxxer in the White House

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I would rather you help me with a small task than waste 20 minutes praying for me to have been born with a different genome

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/46797945

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/28876928

The wikipedia article has an “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” section.

It basically goes a couple paragraphs about his pro-Palestine stance, then this paragraph:

Mamdani did not sponsor an annual Assembly resolution for Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2025, one of eleven Assembly members not to do so. He was last listed as a sponsor in 2021, his first year in office. [49] Mamdani voted in favor of the resolution each year.[50]

Which is misleading. Someone skimming this paragraph or reading the first sentence will get the false impression he is anti-semetic. It serves as a sort of dogwhistle.

When clearly the main relevant fact is he voted in favour of the holocaust remembrance day every year and sponsored it some years…

Ie. a neutral paragraph would be written like this:

Mamdani has voted in favour of the annual Assembly resolution for Holocaust Remembrance Day each year since entering office. In 2025, he was not listed among the resolution’s sponsors, though he continued to support the measure.

Here’s the page

(Please don’t tell me, “Why don’t you edit it yourself anyone can edit wikipedia”, well no I can’t. My IP was banned from wikipedia precisely for pointing out these sorts of biases and stepping on the shoes of the wrong people.)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/27570463