[Diggers350] The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists

Mon Aug 18 01:11:49 BST 2025

The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists
https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1955265029290213553

How is it possible for a BBC reporter to have 
made the following obscene observation in his 
segment on Israels murder at the weekend of 
Al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif: "There's 
the question of proportionality. Is it justified 
to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?"

https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1955265029290213553

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Unpacking the depraved journalistic assumptions 
behind this short question is no small task.
Let us note first, in passing, the entirely false 
assumption here that Israel wished only to kill 
one journalist, Al-Sharif. All the evidence is 
that, in killing more than 200 Palestinian 
journalists in Gaza over the past two years and 
by excluding all western journalists from the 
enclave, Israel has been seeking to ensure its 
genocidal crimes go unreported. It is 
systematically killing those best placed to serve as witnesses.
The all-too-obvious reason Israel wiped out the 
entire al-Jazeera press team at this moment is 
that the Israeli army is about to invade Gaza 
City and commit yet more such atrocities.
But let us dig a little deeper. If you arent 
deeply shocked by the BBC, a so-called public 
broadcaster, thinking it suitable to air the 
comment above  all the more so after Israel has
<https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1907141811216568790>killed 
more journalists
in Gaza than in all major western wars over the past 150 years  consider this.
Imagine that Israel finally allows western 
journalists into Gaza after blocking their entry 
for nearly two years. A team of five familiar BBC 
faces covering the region set up shop in Gaza and 
work out of an improvised studio inside the enclave.
Then news breaks that that their studio has been 
hit by an Israeli strike, and all five killed: 
Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet, Yollande Knell, Lucy Williamson and Jon Donnison.
Israel doesnt claim the strike was a mistake, 
but celebrates the killings. It says it has 
secret evidence that one of them  lets say Jon 
Donnison, who made the observation above  was 
secretly recruited by Hamas military wing while in the enclave.
Can we imagine the BBC or any other western news 
organisation framing the segment in the following 
terms: "There's the question of proportionality. 
Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?"
We all know the answer. The coverage would 
rightly proceed from the fact that Israel had 
killed five journalists, the latest in a 
procession of such media workers, in violation of international law.
The tone would be one of utter indignation. The 
framing, again rightly, would assume there could 
be no possible justification for such an attack 
on civilians. Israels claim that Donnison was 
working at the time in a military capacity for 
Hamas would be dismissed with complete contempt  
unless Israel could produce firm evidence.

Racist double standard

If you find yourself in any way recoiling from 
this comparison  how can the killing of Jon 
Donnison be equated with killing Al-Sharif?  can 
I gently suggest that the power of Israeli and 
western propaganda has been working its magic on you.
Israels assertion that the award-winning 
reporter Al-Sharif was really a Hamas commander 
while doing a sideline in journalism for 
Al-Jazeera is no less preposterous than the claim 
that Donnison might be doing the same for The BBC.
For one thing, reporting a genocide as Al-Sharif 
had been doing  especially when hundreds of your 
colleagues have been picked off by Israel one by 
one  is more than a full-time job. It is a way of life.
Doubtless, though I have less knowledge of such 
matters, it is the same serving as the commander of a Hamas cell.
An army of Israeli drones are spying on the 
enclave 24 hours a day from Gazas skies. Someone 
identified by Israel as a Hamas commander, or 
even a lowly official, would be under constant 
surveillance, and forced to move in the shadows, 
living underground as much of the time as possible.
Similarly, every Palestinians phone in Gaza is
<https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-8200-intelligence-surveillance-cloud-azure/>tapped 
by Unit 8200
and their calls stored on Microsoft servers.
The idea that Al-Sharif could throw in a few 
hours a day running a guerrilla operation under 
these conditions, while popping up on camera 
every few minutes to report on the latest 
slaughter in Gaza is so insane no one  least of 
all a major news organisation like the BBC  
should be dignifying it with an ounce of credibility.
After all, if Israel had really identified 
Al-Sharif as a Hamas commander, it would have 
mountains of intel gathered by its surveillance 
machine. Instead, it has produced a few flimsy 
items of evidence that even I could rustle up in minutes using ChatGPT.
Again, no one should be citing this as evidence, 
any more than they would do if it were Donnison 
being smeared. Doing so legitimises the murder of 
journalists by Israel. That is exactly what the 
BBC and the rest of the western media are doing  
and they are doing it because the journalists 
being killed are Palestinian. They are doing it 
because they are racist propagandists for a 
system of western colonial control in the Middle East.
But, you counter. Isnt it a fact that Al Sharif 
had worked in a period before 7 October 2023 in the press department of Hamas?
And the answer, if true, is: so bloody what? 
Hamas was the governing administration of Gaza. 
It ran the enclaves public services, schools, 
hospitals. Its press officers were there to communicate public policy.
Donnison, Bowen, Doucet, Knell and Williamson 
work for the British state broadcaster. They work 
for a state currently breaking the most basic 
precepts of international law by arming and
<https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1955023410356003275>spying
on behalf of another state actively engaged in 
war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. 
Does that make them legitimate targets for Hamas 
to kill if they report in Gaza?
If your answer is No, then stop peddling a depraved, racist double standard.

Outrageous narrative

Israel has been pushing at an open door in 
Britain and other western capitals in advancing 
the idea that anyone who is connected in any way 
with the administration in Gaza is therefore 
tainted by terrorism and a legitimate target. In 
practice, that means much of its professional classes.
Israel has systematically murdered, jailed and 
tortured medical workers in Gaza as Hamas 
operatives on the grounds that the enclaves 
hospitals were run by Hamas. It has attacked and 
destroyed all Gazas hospitals on the same grounds.
The idea that Israel could destroy Gazas 
hospitals initially shocked observers. But 
western media like the BBC quickly normalised 
these crimes against humanity, even as the people 
of Gaza were left with no medical services in the 
midst of a saturation bombing campaign by Israel and a mass starvation policy.
Israel has been doing the same with Gazas 
journalists: implying that any connection with 
the governing party, however tenuous, justifies 
murdering them. And western journalists like 
those at the BBC are going along with this outrageous narrative.
The British government, for which journalists 
like Donnison work, is setting the agenda that 
BBC journalists, as state stenographers, are following.
An amendment in 2021 to Britains Terrorism Act 
of 2000 means that Hamas military, political and 
administrative wings were for the first time
<https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-i-wrote-an-expert-report-against>treated 
as indistinguishable
. They all supposedly engage in terrorism. For 
that reason, showing any kind of support, even 
expressing an opinion, for anything or anyone 
connected, however to tenuously, to Hamas can get 
you locked up in the UK for up to 14 years.
Britain has replicated as domestic policy the 
obscene logic that Israel has used to destroy 
Gazas hospitals, murder its doctors and kill its journalists.
It has now expanded that warped logic to outlaw 
the direct-action group Palestine Action as a 
terrorist group comparable to al-Qaeda, and is 
threatening anyone in Britain who expresses 
support for Palestine Actions efforts to stop 
Israels genocide in Gaza as a supporter of terrorism.
In short, the British government and a servile 
BBC that regurgitates its positions have the 
blood of Al Sharif and Gazas other journalists 
directly on their hands. They helped kill him. 
And in reporting his murder, they are ensuring 
more journalists in Gaza will be murdered in the 
days, weeks and months to come.

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