once you see his name his motivation is quite obvious;

BBC staffers have revealed that editor Raffi Berg exercises full control over the outlet’s online reporting on Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, ensuring all coverage favors Israel, according to a new report.

Drop Site News, in a report published on December 28, said it spoke to 13 current and former staffers who said that the BBC’s coverage consistently dehumanizes Palestinians and ignores Israeli crimes in Gaza where close to 45,500 Palestinians have been killed.

“[Berg’s] entire job is to water down everything that’s too critical of Israel,” one former BBC journalist said.

Another BBC journalist said Berg plays a key role in a broader BBC culture of “systematic Israeli propaganda.”

“How much power he has is wild,” said another journalist.

“There was an extreme fear at the BBC, that if you ever wanted to do anything about Israel or Palestine, editors would say: ‘If you want to pitch something, you have to go through Raffi and get his signoff,” another journalist explained.

In one instance, Berg downplayed Amnesty International’s report on Israeli genocide in Gaza.

He chose a headline emphasizing Israel’s denial—“Israel rejects ‘fabricated’ claims of genocide”—and delayed publishing the story for 12 hours, limiting its online reach.

The interviewed journalists noted that the Amnesty report wasn’t covered on BBC’s flagship programs: BBC One’s News At One, News At Six, News At Ten, or BBC Two’s Newsnight.......more.........