Document:700+ media figures and programme-makers condemn BBC’s Gaza documentary censorship

"Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone"

"A broadcaster cannot allow bad-faith attacks to dictate its editorial decisions. "Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone" is an important, well-executed documentary that licence-fee payers have the right to watch. The BBC should stand by it with confidence."

 Article  by editor dated 27 February 2025

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Subjects: BBC, Gaza, censorship, racism, dehumanisation, Palestinian people, Israel lobby, Tzipi Hotovely
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700+ media figures and programme-makers condemn BBC’s Gaza documentary censorship

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Gary Lineker, Khalid Abdalla, Anita Rani, and Miriam Margolyes have joined well over 700 film, TV, and media workers in condemning censorship and racism after the BBC bowed to pressure from pro-Israel groups and deleted a documentary about children’s lives in Gaza during Israel’s genocide of hundreds of thousands of civilians, which they say presented an “all-too-rare perspective on the lived experiences of Palestinian children” and deserves recognition rather than censorship.

The media figures, who include twelve BBC staff, sent a letter to director-general Tim Davie, chair of the BBC board Samir Shah, chief content officer Charlotte Moore and head of news and current affairs Deborah Turness on Wednesday 26 February 2025. It condemns the “racist” and “dehumanising” targeting of the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone" and its use of Palestinian children as a ‘political football’:

Beneath this political football are children who are in the most dire circumstances of their young lives. This is what must remain at the heart of this discussion. As programme-makers, we are extremely alarmed by the intervention of partisan political actors on this issue, and what this means for the future of broadcasting in this country.

Notably, the letter is also signed by ‘K Balfour’ – BAFTA-nominated producer, playwright and director Kinvara Balfour is a descendant of Arthur Balfour, then-Foreign Secretary and later Prime Minister, whose 1917 letter declared the British Empire’s support for the creation of Israel in the homeland of Palestinians.

Other signatories include film-maker Ken Loach, journalists Zoe Williams and Gary Younge; Sara Agha, who presented the BBC documentary series "The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories", actors Carice van Houten, Benedict Wong and Hugh Quarshie; and presenter Nadia Sawalha. Producer-director and journalist Nada Issa said that those signing “will no longer be intimidated” by the smears and censorship of racists:

The UK film and TV industry will no longer be intimidated by those whose sole mission it is to censor the voices of the many who are defending the rights of children, the marginalised and those in desperate need. All stories have the right to be told and journalistic scrutiny should not be at the whim of those who deem certain lives unequal.

The letter also urges the BBC to refuse to delete the programme permanently or to disavow it because of “racialised smears against Palestinians outweigh[ing] journalistic ethics and public interest”.

Award-winning documentary-maker Liam O’Hare said:

Almost half of Gaza’s population are children. What they have experienced over the past 17 months is something no child deserves to ever go through. As journalists and filmmakers we have a duty to help tell their story and that’s what this film did so brilliantly. The BBC cannot allow a politicised campaign to succeed in silencing the children of Gaza.

Read the letter in full below:

Dear Samir Shah, Tim Davie and Charlotte Moore,

We are UK-based film & TV professionals and journalists writing in support of the BBC documentary "Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone", which aired on February 17 on BBC 2 and was subsequently made available on iPlayer. This film is an essential piece of journalism, offering an all-too-rare perspective on the lived experiences of Palestinian children living in unimaginable circumstances, which amplifies voices so often silenced. It deserves recognition, not politically motivated censorship.

Racist Assumptions & Weaponisation of Identity

A campaign has sought to discredit the documentary using the father of 14-year-old Abdullah Al-Yazouri, one of the film’s child protagonists. Dr Ayman Al-Yazouri served as Gaza’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture, a civil service role concerned with food production. Conflating such governance roles in Gaza with terrorism is both factually incorrect and dehumanising. This broad-brush rhetoric assumes that Palestinians holding administrative roles are inherently complicit in violence—a racist trope that denies individuals their humanity and right to share their lived experiences.

As industry professionals who craft stories for the British public, including for the BBC, we condemn the weaponisation of a child’s identity and the racist insinuation that Palestinian narratives must be scrutinised through a lens of suspicion. We urge you to reject these tactics, protect vulnerable voices, and reaffirm your commitment to stories that hold power to account. Our screens and our society depend on it.

Child Safeguarding & Ethical Standards

The letters of complaint disregard core safeguarding principles by demanding intrusive scrutiny of Abdullah’s background. Children must not be held responsible for the actions of adults, and weaponising family associations to discredit a child’s testimony is both unethical and dangerous. The BBC’s duty of care to Abdullah, and all minors in conflict zones, must prioritise their safety, privacy, and dignity. Publishing unverified claims about his family risks exposing him to harassment or harm, in direct violation of the BBC’s International Safeguarding Policy.

Beneath this political football are children who are in the most dire circumstances of their young lives. This is what must remain at the heart of this discussion. As programme-makers, we are extremely alarmed by the intervention of partisan political actors on this issue, and what this means for the future of broadcasting in this country.

The BBC’s Responsibility

We call on you to reject attempts to have the documentary permanently removed or subjected to undue disavowals. Capitulating to such attempts to block its reinstatement on iPlayer would signal that:

• Palestinian children’s stories are only valid if their families pass arbitrary “purity tests.”

• Racialised smears against Palestinians outweigh journalistic ethics and public interest.

• Independent filmmakers can be scapegoated and censored for political purposes.

The BBC is ultimately responsible for ensuring its programming meets editorial and compliance standards. Jamie Roberts and Yousef Hammash, of Hoyo Films, are experienced journalistic filmmakers who prioritised the safety of their contributors and production team.

Censorship & Intimidation

Calls to remove the documentary from iPlayer and social media set a dangerous precedent. As media professionals, we are extremely alarmed by the intervention of political actors, including foreign diplomats, and what this means for the future of broadcasting in this country.

If every documentary made in conflict zones were subjected to this level of politicised scrutiny regarding contributors, filmmaking in these areas would become virtually impossible.

Silencing a child’s firsthand account of survival in Gaza, where over 13,000 children have been killed since October 2023, is not about compliance but about erasing Palestinian suffering. The BBC must resist political pressure aimed at suppressing narratives that humanise Palestinians.

A broadcaster cannot allow bad-faith attacks to dictate its editorial decisions. "Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone" is an important, well-executed documentary that licence-fee payers have the right to watch. The BBC should stand by it with confidence.

BBC statement

On 28 February 2025, Jonathan Cook posted on X:

The BBC has really lost the plot if it thinks trust in its journalism has been damaged by allowing a 13-year-old to narrate a humanising portrait of Gaza's children living through a 15-month genocide – rather than its utter failure to properly report that genocide.

Signatories

Khalid Abdalla Actor Yassmin Abdel-Magied Writer Fahima Abdulrahman Journalist Hassan Abdulrazzak Playwright & Screenwriter Jo Abel Head of directing docs at NFTS Kandise Abiola Freelancer Chloe Abrahams Film director Sasha Achilli Producer/Director Zeb Achonu Editor Steve Ackhurst Writer/Producer Mark Adderley Producer, Director & Content Producer Kareem Adeshina Producer Joseph Adesunloye Director Yasmin Afifi Writer/Director for Film and TV Sarah Agha Writer, actress and presenter Roisin Agnew Filmmaker Sybil Ah-Mane Director Flexible Films Riffy Ahmed Writer/director Nafeez Ahmed Photographer, Director, Actor Riz Ahmed Actor Rebecca Ajayi-Walmsley TV Editor Arifa Akbar Journalist Salman Akhtar Actor Ayo Akinwolere Broadcaster Amal Al-Agroobi Film Director Manal Al-Barghouthi 1st Assistant Editor Mohammedally Al-Hashemi Writer Yousif Al-Khalifa Animator Sakhr Al-Makhadhi Executive Producer Gabriel Alborough Documentary Filmmaker Shereen Ali Producer Faisal Ali Journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Journalist Columnist I Paper Waad AlKateab Filmmaker shenoah allen Writer Josh Allott Director Yasmine Almosawi Editor Misbah Alvi Freelance Kat amara-korba Producer Century India Amarteifio Actor Maya Amin-Smith Director Nik Ammar Composer Iman Amrani Journalist Louise Anderson TV Research Manager Fausto Appiolaza Head of branded content Geoff Arbourne Film Producer Krishan Arora Producer Qasim Arshad Video Editor Joy Ash Director Jannah Aunallah Production Coordinator Dave Austin MD Jess Austin Documentary producer Abdelrahman Ayyash Assignment Editor Aljazeera (Edinburgh) Shaista Aziz Freelance Journalist Nadim Baba Journalist Julie Baines Producer Dan Films Rosemary Baker Filmmaker Nicholas Baker Post production supervisor K Balfour Producer Katherine Bannon Producer/Director Zan Barberton Editor Andrew Barker Journalist Katie Barlow Documentary film maker Emma Barnaby Documentary Maker Jack Barraclough Video Journalist Elliot Barrett Editor Kazz Basma Managing Director Sideways Film Naomi Battrick Actor Amanda Baxter Editor Darius Bazargan Documentary Filmmaker Aisling Bea Actor/ Writer/ Comedian Russell Beard Broadcaster and film maker Josh Beattie Director Ben Beaumont-Thomas Music editor, the Guardian The Guardian Poppy Begum PD Timo Behnke Producer Ronan Bennett novelist and screenwriter Paul Berczeller Director Chris Beresford Film editor Emmanuel Berthelot Actor Shirine Best Producer Other Productions Rosie Bewley Edit assistant and data manager Aleksandra Bilic Producer / Director Sophie Binyon Documentary Series Producer Michael Binyon Journalist Jessica Bishopp Filmmaker peter Blach filmmaker Klip Films Lucy Blakstad Documentary Film Director Nicholas Blincoe Writer Joanna Boateng Documentary Producer Pep Bosch Healer Humanity Barnaby Boughlin TV Executive Iman Boujelouah Actor Natasha Bowler Journalist & Documentary producer Vanessa Bowles Director Jack Bradley Shooting Assistant Producer Chrissy Brand Journalist Louis Brehony Researcher Jen Brister Stand up comedian Dionne Bromfield Director Laurence Brook Filmmaker Iain Bruce Broadcast journalist Aminah Brunt Producer Director Katie Bryer Film editor Kate Buckley Producer / Director Joseph Bullman Filmmaker Emma Butt Sound Engineer Neil Cairns Producer Cesar Caldito Senior Video Editor Al Jazeera English Joanna Carolan Writer / Comedian Natasha Carpenter Ballard Managing Director/Senior Agent Mary Carson Documentary Producer Irene Carter Producer Maria Caruana Galizia Film Producer Melanie Carvalho Journalist Guardian News and Media Hussain Casey-Ahmed Producer Raghad Chaar Actor and voiceover Rose Chacko Translator Mounira Chaieb Freelance Journalist Selma Chalabi Radio/podcast producer Rebecca Chapman Producer Izzy Charman Producer Asim Chaudhry Actor Charlotte Cheung Development executive Nia Childs Filmmaker and curator Christopher Chow Film & TV Editor Apala Chowdhury Writer Fiona Clarke COO, Media Production Lauren Clarke Film worker Paul Clements Photojournalist Alex Cockburn Fim & TV Editor BAFTA Connect Jack Cocker Director Iris Cohen Production Executive Cris Cole Screenwriter Leyla Josephine Coll-OReilly Writer/Director Emma Collins Drama Editor Erminia Colucci Professor Visual Psychology & Cultural and Global Mental Health Middlesex university S Cook Editor voice.cymru Vicki Cooper Executive Producer/Director Tristan Copeland Director Tea Cup Pictures LTD Emily Copley Independent Producer Jennifer Corcoran Producer Freya Films (Tish) Flore Cosquer Director Scottish Documentary Institute / Documentary Film Council Trustee Phoebe Cottam Director NFTS BBC scholar Juliet Cowan Performer Tara Creme Composer R Crockett Editor Niamh Crowley Location Assistant Kirsty Cunningham Executive Producer Kirsty Cunningham Creative Director Richard Curson Smith Writer/director/producer Jaimie D’Cruz Creative Director Acme TV afshan d’souza-lodhi writer Natasha Dack Founder/Producer Charles Dance Actor Damian Daniel Cinematographer Rubia Dar Filmmaker Henry Davies Assistant editor Dan Davies Executive Producer/Director James Dawson Director Kiren Dhadwal Story Producer Rashpal Dhaliwal Television Producer Ayesha Dharker Actor Marnie Dickens Scriptwriter Tony Dillamore Executive Producer Stephen Dillane Actor Paola Dionisotti actress Toral Dixit Producer Director Norma Dixit Actor Rosa Dodd TV producer (factual) Matthew Dodd-Noble Film Editor Sophia Doe Archive Producer Mark Donne Writer/Producer Unit 3 Films Georgie Yukiko Donovan Director Jasmine Dotiwala OBE TV Exec. 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Gill Professor of Criminology University of Bristol Shelley Gill Talent Manager thinkBIGGER! 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