Once again, actually not once again, but as usual, the BBC and its senior correspondents let us down. Obfuscating truth. Spinning as if they are a PR company brought in to manage a celebrity caught with pants down crisis, rather than an ongoing genocide cessated hardly, if at all. Once more the on point Jonathan Cook is on hand to analyse this failing:
Once again, Jeremy Bowen is misleading the British public about Gaza:
Yet again the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen is misrepresenting a key issue in Gaza – and as always, he is doing so in a way that places Israel in the most flattering light possible.
The BBC’s international editor notes… pic.twitter.com/mvvBh8kwHN
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) October 14, 2025
I have written about Jeremy Bowen before. It feels apt that I simply post this again, as really there is no point writing something new. I wrote Jeremy Bowen: Not our man in Southwest Asia – or the Middle East in 2017.
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I wrote this a year earlier. It followed David Cameron’s announcement regarding the ‘failed’ integration of Muslim women in the UK. It followed Cameron’s announcement of English classes for these failing women to help integration. It wasn’t the first time we had heard such racist tosh, and Boris Johnson’s similar tosh (see video below) this week prompts me to reshare Love and War in Cameron’s England.
Tim Stanley, “Is there a certain point in Britain where the number of foreign born is so great, that the country ceases to be Britain any more?”
Boris Johnson, “When I was running London it was disgraceful. There were parts of London where the Bangladeshi community, second or… pic.twitter.com/jKjedpwlYf
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) October 14, 2025
Both these pieces were originally in Middle East Eye (find my other work for them here).
Apologies for not writing more, but sometimes, increasingly so, everything has already been said.
Arzu Merali is a writer and researcher based in London, UK. She is currently very tired.
Images: BBC, by Technical Fault CC BY 2.0, Boris Johnson shows his support for England, No. 10, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
