The BBC’s Coverage of October 7 Was on a Par With Its Genocide Denial Throughout the Holocaust in Gaza

No Mention of the Hannibal Doctrine, No Mention of Israel’s 17 Year Siege of Gaza, No Mention of Israel’s Policy of ‘Mowing the Lawn’ – For the BBC History Began on October 7

Tzipi Hotoveli Interview With Piers Morgan

Dear Tim Davie,

You should be congratulated on your coverage of the second anniversary of October 7. Once again, you have faithfully acted as the Foreign Office’s Obedient Servant. I compliment you on your skill in manipulating language in an attempt to erase from memory the Genocide in Gaza.

‘Genocide’ is a word that the BBC decided to ban despite every human rights organisation, from Amnesty to B’tselem  and the UN’s own Commission concluding that genocide was taking place.

Not only did the BBC not use the word Genocide but it interrupted guests at least 100 times when they dared to mention the word. As the Media Monitoring Report on your Double Standards asked

Why has the BBC downplayed genocide allegations over 100 times while omitting Israeli genocidal statements such as Netanyahu’s Amalek reference cited by the ICJ?’ 

It’is a good question but I suspect that you don’t have an answer which isn’t economical with the truth. Either way it shows whose side you were on.

In July 2024 an article in The Lancet estimated that the true figure of Palestinians killed, after 9 months, was 186,000 direct and indirect deaths. After 24 months that figure would be 496,000. However given the starvation blockade by Israel since March 2025 the numbers may be considerably higher.

Dr Gideon Polya estimated in January 2025 that the true figure of direct and indirect deaths may have been 553,000.

This tallies with the number that Israel’s Ambassador to London, Tzipi Hotoveli estimated might need to be killed, 600,000, when she was interviewed by Piers Morgan in October 2023.

So what does the BBC do after two years of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza?   It focuses its attention on the Israeli ‘victims’ of October 7.

It is as if a history of the Warsaw Ghetto were to focus on a sympathetic portrait of the Nazis who died in the Uprising rather than the Jews who died in the fighting.

It is clear where the BBC’s sympathies lie.  With the modern day Nazis who killed the human animals occupying Gaza Ghetto and who sought to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

Throughout the Gaza holocaust the BBC has deliberately ignored the genocidal statements of intent by Israeli ministers such as Amichai Eliyahu who first called for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on Gaza and in May 2025 called for food reserves in Gaza to be bombed. "They need to starve," he said.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on 6 May 2025 told settler representatives that

Within a few months, we will be able to declare that we have won. Gaza will be totally destroyed

But if the BBC minimised Palestinian suffering it magnified that of Israel. In your coverage you repeatedly said ‘about 1200 Israelis were killed’. In fact 1,139 died according to Bituah Leumi, Israel's social security agency.

Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says (Full with subtitles)

Of the Israelis who died just one baby, Mila Cohen, died and that was accidental. Compare that to the thousands of Palestinians babies murdered. Approximately 400 soldiers and police were killed. Not once has the BBC mentioned that one-third of those killed on October 7 were legitimate military targets.

About 750 civilians died. However it is clear that the majority of them were killed by Israel itself which put the Hannibal Directive into operation as early as 7.18 a.m. when an order was issued to despatch a Zik, an attack drone, against soldiers at Erez Junction.

The Hannibal Directive says that if a soldier is in danger of being captured he should be killed. It was employed throughout October 7. Is there a reason that the BBC has never, not once, mentioned the term Hannibal Directive even though Israeli papers have frequently discussed it?  This is news management worthy of Pravda.

The only survivor of a house in Kibbutz Be’eri that was shelled by an Israeli tank, Yasmine Porat, told Israel’s Kan Radio that 13 Israeli hostages were killed by Israeli security forces. She also said that she and other civilians were treated humanely by the Palestinian fighters.

Israeli State Radio 15.10.23. (jpg)

Tank fires on Israeli civilian home in Kibbutz Be'eri, 7 October 2023

In Samantha Simmons broadcast on October 7 she mentioned the attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, where 101 Israelis died.  What was not mentioned was the fact, (Ha'aretz 7.7.24) that Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram gave orders for a tank to fire on a house holding 14 hostages including Yasmine Porat.  The same happened throughout Kibbutz Be’eri but the BBC thought that such matters might confuse people and its message that the October 7 attack was unprovoked. 

Ha'aretz’s Nir Hasson quoted a resident of Be’eri, Tuval, who spoke about the ‘difficult decisions’ of Israeli commanders which:

 Include(d) shelling houses with all their occupants inside in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages... The price was terrible: at least 112 Be’eri people were killed.”

Why has none of this been mentioned by the BBC?

The implication is clear. The Israelis who died at Be’eri, one-seventh of all Israeli civilians killed, were killed by Israeli tanks.

Video released by Israeli army shows helicopters firing indiscriminately on 7 October

Sourced from YNet

This is how so many cars at the music festival ended up destroyed. Apache helicopters!
FYI : The IDF collected all the destroyed cars and arranged them one month after the incident pic.twitter.com/sHVL4YIMIT

— Syrian Girl (@Partisangirl) November 9, 2023

The lie that October 7 was the beginning of history is best illustrated by the Israeli phrase that it was moving the lawn (or grass) in Gaza. As John Feffor of the Institute of Policy Studies explained:

Ever since it withdrew its settlements in 2005, Israel has periodically attacked Gaza. This shelling of locations throughout the narrow strip of land gave rise to the Israeli expression “mowing the lawn.” In other words, Israel was bombing Gaza on a regular basis to “maintain order.”

Razan al-Najar 

In other words Israel has periodically attacked Gaza with overwhelming force every few years in order to ensure that Gazans understood who was in charge.  Attacks by Israel occurred in 2008/9 (Operation Cast Lead), 2012 (Pillar of Defence), 2014 (Protective Edge), the Great Return March (March 2018) and May 2021. Thousands of Palestinians were killed and injured in these attacks so the BBC pretence that nothing had occurred before October 2023 is an egregious lie.

The Great Return March of 2018 was completely peaceful but Israeli snipers fired from earth banks thousands of rounds which killed about 300 people and injured thousands (they had been told to fire at knee caps in order to deliberately disable as many as possible). This was symbolised by the deliberate murder of the unarmed Razan al-Najar, a 20 year old medic.

Likewise there was no mention of the Apache helicopters which Israel used throughout the day to fire on any vehicle returning to Gaza or thought likely to do so. There is abundant evidence that their pilots shot at everything that moved and killed the occupants of the cars, Israelis included.

Drone footage from the scene of the music festival shows the damaged cars before they were rearranged by the IDF. pic.twitter.com/qs6F9SZh3S

— Syrian Girl (@Partisangirl) November 9, 2023

 The Israeli military released drone footage showing hundreds of scorched and damaged cars moved from the Nova music festival, providing further evidence that Israeli forces likely killed many of their own on 7 October, as RT reported on 6 November.  Hamas fighers were carrying light weapons which could not possibly have caused such damage.

Perhaps you can explain why the Australian Broadcasting Service can run a story ‘Israeli forces accused of killing their own citizens under the 'Hannibal Directive' during October 7 chaos’ but the BBC is incapable of doing so? Don’t worry I know the answer Tim which is that you were put into the BBC in order to ensure that you continued to function as the Voice of Israel.

I hesitate to ask why the figures of dead and injured from Gaza’s Health Ministry are always accompanied by a reference to Hamas-run, whereas the BBC never refers to Israeli propaganda as Likud-run. After all it is Israel which has consistently lied throughout the genocide, to the extent of barring reporters from entering Gaza and doing its best to kill those who are already there.

Israel murdered 15 Medics on 23 March whilst claiming that they had approached Israeli troops in unlit vehicles. When this was proved to be a lie, as video footage had been collected from one of the dead bodies, Israel claimed that it was all a ‘mistake’, an explanation that the BBC carried faithfully.

Under your genocide cleansing leadership the BBC pulled from ‘i’ player Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, a film starring a 13 year old Palestinian narrator Abdullah because his father was deputy Agriculture Minister in Gaza’s government, as if the sins of the father are those of the children.  No evidence has ever been produced that the father was a member of Hamas, not that that should have made any difference. At least he wasn’t a member of Religious Zionism.

And if one act of cowardice was not enough, you pulled Gaza: Doctors Under Attack because of concerns over impartiality.  Presumably it is BBC policy not to differentiate between Good and Evil. I can only assume that future BBC programmes on the Holocaust will include neo-Nazis and holocaust deniers being allowed equal time for the sake of ‘balance’.

Gaza’s genocide is a holocaust and the BBC has been an accomplice to that genocide.

Tony Greenstein

A Silent March on a Sunny Afternoon in Brighton & Hove Against Israel's Holocaust of Children in Gaza

As the Genocide & Starvation Continues Starmer and Our War Criminal Leaders Supply Israel with More Weapons While Corrupt Arab Rulers Welcome Trump

Brighton Nakba & Gaza Children's March 18.5.25

On Sunday Brighton & Hove PSC held a silent march of about 1,500 people through the streets of Brighton with white ribbons  representing Gaza's murdered children. People in Brighton warmly welcomed the march and the only dissent was from about 10 pathetic Zionists near the rallying point.  

One idiot held a sign saying 'Stop the Lies - There is no Occupation'. There is no arguing with someone who denies a military occupation  in Gaza and the West Bank. Presumably the thousands of soldiers in the West Bank manning checkpoints are merely on  holiday.

Little Ms Hitler - aka Victorial Bhogal

Zionist genocide deniers are no different from neo-Nazi holocaust deniers. Both deny that which they support. Present among the handful of Christian and Jewish fascists was Little Miss Hitler, Victoria Bhogal who, when she saw me immediately complained to a nearby policeman. Presumably she objected to me calling her 'Miss' rather than  'Ms'. I shall take note in future!

In the past 19 months we have seen the collapse and impotence of International Law as Israel has been given a free hand to perpetrate every form of atrocity in Gaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HQYfsUAf3s

Starmer supports cutting off food

In Britain Keir Starmer has lived up to the response he gave to LBC at the start of the Genocide that ‘Israel does have that right’ in response to a question as to whether Israel had the right to deprive the Palestinians in Gaza of food, water, and all the other essentials of life.

The fact that he later denied having said what everyone could see with their own eyes proves even more clearly that lies come second nature to a man without personality or principle. As Starmer says, he is a ‘(racist) Zionist without qualification.’

Starmer should be in the Hague for Complicity in Gaza's Genocide - Andrew Feinstein

We now learn that the embargo on weapons to Israel was yet another lie as Starmer’s government supplied more weapons to Israel in the last 3 months of 2024 than the Tory government supplied for the four year period 2020-23.

Starmer - The Murder of 8,000 Muslim Men and Boys in Srebenica Was A Genocide

The deceit and dishonesty of Starmer and Lammy is demonstrated by their denial that there is a genocide taking place in Gaza. Starmer, who even argued at the International Court of Justice that Vukovar in 1991, where 260 Croat men were killed was a genocide and who has repeatedly said Srebenica in 1995 was a genocide when 8,000 people were killed denies that Gaza constitutes a genocide. In Gaza, hundreds of thousands have almost certainly been murdered, including countless thousands of children, yet to Starmer it is not a genocide but an act of ‘self defence’.

Why?  Because the British government is actively complicit in the genocide, supplying both weapons and intelligence via RAF flights over Gaza. What this proves is that we are ruled by amoral war criminals and liars who are no better than their Nazi counterparts 80 years ago who were hanged in 1946 after the Nuremberg trials.

Those who deny the genocide in Gaza are the same as those who deny the Nazi holocaust. Article II of the Genocide Convention is quite clear.

genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

Israel’s attack on the people of Gaza is clearly aimed at destroying, in whole or in part, the Palestinian people. The pretext is that the aim is to destroy Hamas. If Israel was only concerned with destroying Hamas why would it attack every hospital, university, school, mosque, home and church even?

The idea that the  Command and Control centres are situated in hospitals for example doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Why would Hamas place their HQs in indefensible hospitals rather than its tunnels? The fact that we haven’t seen one single photograph showing Hamas firing out of a hospital is proof that Israel’s allegations are lies.  Just like the lies about the murdered 15 Red Crescent workers.

Were the Hamas C&C centres placed in Gaza’s reservoirs? Even the BBC admits that ‘Hundreds of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed’.

What is obvious is that if you intend to build settlements in Gaza and ethnically cleanse its population then you need to destroy all civilian structures, especially hospitals.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog: "It's an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved—it's not true. They could've risen up, fought against that evil regime" https://t.co/5UhnhOGdSC 7/10 pic.twitter.com/Itw5JfyN8Y

— Omar Shakir (@OmarSShakir) October 15, 2023

It’s not as if Israel’s leaders have been coy about their objectives. At the very start of the genocide Israeli President, Yitzhak Herzog was quite clear that 

It's an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved—it's not true. They could've risen up, fought against that evil regime

Herzog was the former leader of the Israeli Labor Party a party no less war-like than Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was equally clear when he invoked the ancient enemy Amalek. God had told the Hebrew tribes to

Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

The Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Nissim Vaturi called for Israel to ‘“wipe Gaza off the face of the earth,”.’ Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich complained that

We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.

Smotrich was wrong. The leaders of the ‘free’ West have allowed genocide through the simple expedient of pretending it isn’t happening.

October 7^th was the trigger, the pretext, to carry out the Zionists’ long planned ethnic cleansing of Palestine. What is happening now is the completion of the Nakba that took place in 1948.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4HGkh8FNWE

Hamas mass rape a ‘hoax’ and ‘fake news’, says University of Sydney professor

After October 7 the Israeli government engaged in atrocity propaganda designed to justify the genocide that followed. We had the 40 beheaded babies hoax when only 1 baby died, shot accidentally shot. Then there was the mass rapes hoax which the New York Times did its best to propagate with its article Screams Without Words.. One of the main investigators, Anat Schwartz, was found, in February 2024 to have liked incendiary posts on social media, including one calling to "turn the strip into a slaughterhouse".

tony greenstein on march!

That too soon unravelled when the Intercept published on February 28 an exposé building on claims by Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada and The Grayzone that there were inconsistencies in the story. The NYT itself was itself riven by doubts and its podcast The Daily withdrew an episode that was due to be shown.

It now turns out that there is not one case of alleged rape that will be  prosecuted. Southern District Prosecutor, Moran Gez, told YNet that:

Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to prove these crimes. In the end, we don’t have complainants. What was reported in the media compared to what will ultimately be established will look very different—either because the victims were murdered or because women who were raped are unwilling to come forward.

We reached out to women’s rights organizations and requested cooperation. They told us no one had contacted them. Some parents reached out to these organizations, asking what to do if something happened to their daughters, but they didn’t disclose the assaults.

In this area, I would temper expectations. I know the public is expecting action and understands the need to address the horrific sexual offenses and assaults that occurred, but the vast majority of these cases won’t meet the evidentiary threshold in court, and the criticism will ultimately fall on the prosecution—unjustly so.

Gez is a hard-line Zionist who advocates the death penalty for every Palestinian who participated in October 7^th. She is convinced there were rapes yet by her own admission there were no complainants and no women’s rights organisation had been contacted by a woman claiming to have been raped. All she can do is speculate.

The allegations of mass rape, which were used to justify the genocide and the mass rape of Palestinians have, like the rest of Israel’s atrocity propaganda been shown to be bogus.

The claim that the 1,139 Israelis who died that day were the largest single massacre of Jews since the holocaust is also false. The largest killing of Jews took place between 1976 and 1982 in Argentina, a country that Israel supplied with weapons and military training. Up to 12% of the 30,000 who were murdered by the Junta were Jewish, despite Jews making up less than 1% of Argentina’s population. But because Israel was complicit in their murder this is not counted.

October 7^th was indeed traumatic for Israel but not because it heralded a new holocaust. It was traumatic in the same way that slave and indigenous rebellions were traumatic. The trauma was not holocaust related but a consequence of the shock that was related to the settler colonial fear that the natives may one day rise up against them

Tony Greenstein

When the amoral, sociopath Keir Starmer denies that there is a Genocide in Gaza he is no different to those who deny the Nazi Holocaust

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