London (Quds News Network)- A new analysis by the UK's public broadcaster has revealed that the BBC’s coverage of Israel's genocide in Gaza is “systematically biased against Palestinians.” The study of over 35,000 pieces of content conducted by the Muslim Council of Britain's Centre for Media Monitoring (CFMM) found that the BBC gives Israeli deaths 33 times more coverage than Palestinian ones. In an analysis of 3,873 articles and 32,092 broadcast segments from 7 October 2023 to 6 October 2024, the CFMM found that the BBC used emotive terms four times as much for Israeli victims and applied “massacre” 18 times more to Israeli casualties than Palestinian ones. The analysis “reveals a systematic omission of key historical and contemporary context that has acquired an institutional quality at the BBC”, including the genocidal rhetoric used by Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, and a failure to scrutinise Israeli claims and denials. Just 0.5 percent of BBC articles mentioned Israel’s decades-long occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem. According to the analysis, the BBC pressed a total of 38 interviewees to condemn Hamas’s 7 October operation, but at no point applied the equivalent questioning to Israeli attacks in Gaza. BBC presenters have referred to “Hamas-controlled Gaza”, despite Israeli forces now controlling more than half of the Palestinian enclave. The study also found that the BBC had interviewed significantly more Israelis (2,350) than Palestinians (1,085) on TV and radio, while BBC presenters shared the Israeli perspective 11 times more frequently than the Palestinian perspective (2,340 v 217). The BBC came under fire recently for withdrawing a documentary about children in Gaza entitled, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, and delaying the broadcast of another about medical workers in the war-torn enclave entitled: Gaza: Medics Under Fire. The documentary was cleared for release in February 2025, with critics, accusing the broadcaster of censorship for withholding frontline testimony from Gaza’s health workers. Over 600 industry figures signed last month an open letter sent to Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, demanding the immediate release of Gaza: Medics Under Fire, saying it has undergone extensive editorial reviews and fact checking and has been ready for broadcast for months. The signatories stated that editorial caution over the subject has spilled over into “political suppression”. “Every day this film is delayed, the BBC fails in its commitment to inform the public, fails in its journalistic responsibility to report the truth, and fails in its duty of care to these brave contributors,” the letter stated, as reported by The Guardian. “No news organisation should quietly decide behind closed doors whose stories are worth telling. This important film should be seen by the public, and its contributors’ bravery honoured.” Gary Lineker, who presented its flagship football programme Match of the Day for 25 years, also recently left the broadcaster early after reposting a piece of content about Zionism that contained a rat emoji, historically used in antisemitic propaganda, prompting discussions with BBC leadership that led to his early exit. Lineker apologised. In an interview with fellow BBC presenter Amol Rajan, which was conducted and broadcast prior to the episode that prompted his departure, the former footballer said that Israel’s war on Gaza and the “mass murder of thousands of children” was more important than what was happening internally at the broadcaster and was “probably something we should have a little opinion on”.