After twenty-two Jewish employees of the BBC filed a complaint against their company on charges of anti-Semitism, the television channel is trying to calm the outrage with the help of a documentary.

Their indignation was also caused by the fact that former footballer Gary Lineker shared a post on Twitter that demanded the banning of Israeli teams from international football. The commentator for the BBC and Al-Jazeera sports channel defended himself by saying that he did not understand the message of the original post. The BBC did not take any action against Lineker in the case.

The British media is now trying to prove that the accusations are baseless

the new documentary telling the story of the Nova massacre on October 7th a year ago is being broadcast on BBC 2 in prime time...

...During the 90 minutes, viewers can gain a horrifying insight into what the young people who fled for their lives experienced with the help of the footage, mainly taken by the participants of the Nova festival or recorded with the GoPro cameras of the Hamas terrorists.

The official presentation of the film took place on Tuesday night at the JW3 Jewish community center, which led to a brief ceasefire between the British Jewish community and the BBC. The Jewish community venue in north London was chosen for security reasons, with guards at the gates and guests asked to bring ID…

…Charlotte Moore, the BBC's director of content, announced the film: “I know this has been an incredibly difficult year for many of you. The seventh anniversary of October is coming up, and I know the impact this year has had on many people. I hope this film demonstrates the BBC's commitment to fearlessly and honestly telling stories in search of the truth."

"It was extraordinary how many people documented the events," says Yariv Mozer, the director of the documentary. "This is a generational story. It's not only the stories of the people who went to the festival, but also those of their friends, their friends' friends, and their families. If you meet someone in their 20s in Israel, you can see the trauma in their eyes."

A few hours after the presentation, in an interview published in the Hollywood Reporter, Yariv reported that

the BBC asked him not to call Hamas a terrorist organization if he wanted it on air.

"That was the price I was willing to pay for the British public to see these atrocities and decide whether or not this was a terrorist organisation."

Source: Neokohn

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