UK journalist who blew whistle on BBC Gaza documentary: ‘I caught them in bed with Hamas’

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It took investigative journalist David Collier exactly five hours to find out that Abdullah, the narrator and main subject of the BBC documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone,” was the son of a high-ranking Hamas official.

Collier’s discovery has led to the film’s removal from streaming and ignited a very public crisis at the media outlet, long regarded as the gold standard for international journalism.

Now, longstanding accusations of the BBC’s anti-Israel bias have once again come to the fore in light of Collier’s work.

“I’m just one guy with a computer in north London,” says Collier in an interview with The Times of Israel, pointing out that despite its vast, taxpayer-funded resources, the broadcasting giant didn’t manage to do its due diligence.

Getting to the truth behind the documentary — which follows several children in Gaza over a period of months — was not entirely without risk, says Collier.

UK journalist who blew whistle on BBC Gaza documentary: ‘I caught them in bed with Hamas’ | The Times of Israel