Palestine’s UK Ambassador Blasted Blasted A BBC Presenter For Biased Coverage Towards Israel On Live TV
“You bring us here whenever it is the Israelis who are killed. Did you bring me here when many Palestinians in the West Bank were killed?”
The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has slammed a BBC anchor for biased coverage on a live interview in a video that has gone viral on social media.
Husam Zomlot appeared on a BBC News segment to discuss the war that has erupted between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday Oct. 7.
In the clip, the presenter, Lewis Vaughn Jones, can be pressing Zomlot to answer a question about whether Zomlot supports Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel.
Zomlot proceeds to call out the BBC for only asking him to go on the show when Israelis have been killed and never when Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces.
“How many times has Israel committed war crimes?” Zomlot said. “Right live on your own cameras? Do you start by asking them to condemn themselves? Have you? You don’t. You don’t.”
“It’s the Palestinians that are always expected to condemn themselves,” he said.
“You bring us here whenever it is the Israelis who are killed. Did you bring me here when many Palestinians in the West Bank [were killed], more than 200 over the last few months? Do you invite me when there are such Israeli provocations in Jerusalem and elsewhere?,” Zomlot said.
Zomlot added that what Israelis have seen in the past few days is what Palestinians have seen for the every day for the last 50 years.
“[Gaza] is the biggest open air prison. Those people – two million – have been taken hostage by Israel for the last 16 years,” he said.
He called for the media to change its rhetoric and called for Israel, as an occupier, to be held accountable for any potential crimes and crimes against humanity under international law.
In a later interview on the BBC, Zomlot said that six members of his extended family had been killed by the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
Right after, he was again repeatedly pressed by a different BBC anchor to condemn Hamas.
“My cousin is not Hamas. These kids are not Hamas,” he said.
