The BBC charity’s partnership with terror glorifying PA media

The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) is controlled by the Palestinian Authority and its television (PA TV) and radio (Voice of Palestine) stations are the PA’s official media channels.

As is regularly documented by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), both those stations have a long record of broadcasting material which negates Israel’s existence (including on children’s programmes), glorifies terrorism, spreads incitement, promotes antisemitic tropes and hate speech, propagates falsehoods about Israel and denies and distorts the Holocaust.

One might therefore assume that for organisations from liberal Western countries, the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation would not meet the required criteria for partnership on joint projects – but that is apparently not the case.BBC Media Action

The BBC’s international development charity ‘BBC Media Action’ is officially “legally, financially and operationally independent from the BBC” although according to its website, some of its trustees are also BBC employees. It does not receive funding from the licence fee “except through the provision of office space and a small donation from BBC World Service to support co-production of content with their language services” and the majority of its income is provided by DfID – the UK government’s Department for International Development.

Despite the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation’s record, BBC Media Action (in collaboration with licence fee funded BBC Arabic) began partnering it in 2012. The charity claims to be “promoting accountability” through the governance projects – of which that partnership is one – and states that:

“BBC Media Action’s governance and rights programmes support more accountable, inclusive and peaceful states and societies.” 

Clearly the investment by British tax-payers did not have that effect upon the Palestinian Authority, which continues to promote hate, incitement and glorification of terrorism (mostly unreported by the BBC) via BBC Media Action’s partner the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.

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