'We Refuse to Be Silenced': Gaza Doctors Documentary Censored by BBC Wins Prestigious Award

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This is about censorship by BBC.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-documentary-bafta-award

BRAD REED
May 11, 2026

The makers of a documentary about Israeli attacks on healthcare workers and infrastructure in Gaza won a prestigious BAFTA award on Sunday—and they used their acceptance speech to lash out at BBC for refusing to air their work.

The film, “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,” was originally scheduled to be aired by the BBC in early 2025 before the network announced in June that it would not be releasing the documentary because it had “come to the conclusion that broadcasting this material risked creating a perception of partiality.”

Shortly after, the documentary was picked up by the UK-based Channel 4 and aired in July.

UK journalist Ramita Navai, the main reporter of the documentary, criticized the BBC for declining to show the film, which she denounced as a political decision.

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[malaise]

1. The BBC is controlled by

The British Government - do not be fooled.

[dem4decades]

3. You'd rather CBS?

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5. No

The Guardian

[cbabe]

6. Media control goes way way back to yellow journalism, etc. I think the point is bbc is not free but controlled unlike

popular conception.

[AloeVera]

7. As a public service broadcaster, the BBC is duty-bound to hold the government to account.

As well as to uphold the highest journalistic standards of impartiality, honesty and reporting "without fear or favour".

The BBC failed miserably on the Gaza genocide. Over 100 of its own staff plus 300 other journalists wrote a letter in 2025 to its director general complaining that the BBC had become a mere mouthpiece for Israel and that its coverage was reduced to performing PR for the Israeli government and military while making clear that Palestinian lives were not as important. The letter was prompted by the BBC's refusal to air this documentary.

The letter pointed to the oversized influence of Sir Robbie Paul Gibb, Brexiter and conservative past owner of the Jewish Chronicle (a paper forced to apologize in 2024 for publishing a series of fabricated stories on the Gaza war) on the BBC's editorial board and Editorial Standards Committee.

More at the link:
https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-were-forced-to-do-pro-israel

Edited to add:
Sir Gibb is still on the BBC board.

[cbabe]

8. Thanks for this.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Israel is bombing Gaza most days still

The war is not over, people in Gaza still face daily bombings and attacks, and aid is still scarce and not enough to prevent deaths. Not being covered at all anymore, but the situation for people there is still awful and deadly.

[AloeVera]

4. Has the BBC stopped airing footage of October 7th yet?

Or the numerous victim and hostage family interviews? All while ignoring the carnage in Gaza until it ran out of excuses?

I ask because I wouldn't know. I stopped watching when I came “to the conclusion that broadcasting this material [while oblivious to Gaza] risked creating a perception of partiality.”

[malaise]

9. THIS

Rec