It is being reported on social media, and consequently ignored by the main stream media, that a civil servant has leaked a set of briefing notes prepared for the Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, for her meeting today (8-7-2025) with the Israeli Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, in which it is claimed that Nandy will tell Hotovely that the BBC is “institutionally antisemitic” and that “one mistake is an editing error but if you have multiple mistakes you need to look at the leadership”.
And it is further claimed that Nandy will also inform Hotovely that “Glastonbury continues to host acts with vile and inflammatory views”, and that further investigation is required.
This statement flies in the face of the many instances of criticism from external sources over the pro-Israeli bias in the BBC’s coverage of the genocide in Gaza, (which term ‘genocide’ it doggedly refuses to use). Criticism from inside the BBC came from a recent letter drafted by 100 BBC employees to director Tim Davie that accuses the BBC of bias against the Palestinian cause and said:
“All too often it has felt that the BBC has been performing PR for the Israeli government and military. This should be a cause of great shame and concern for everyone at the BBC…”
If this leaked briefing turns out to be true, this has profound and disturbing implications for democracy in the UK. The government is being told to spin a false narrative to its own people, at the behest of the genocidal State of Israel, and forcing the state broadcaster to do the same, in an attempt to suppress dissent.
What is truly shocking, is the extent to which a foreign power, a colonialist, oppressive power, has penetrated the workings of the UK government, to attempt to tighten its grip on our media, in order to silence the voices of opposition to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
We are literally being forced by a Labour government to ‘reject the evidence of your eyes and ears’ in true Orwellian fashion.
We must resist it at all cost, keep control of the narrative and ensure that the truth is heard.
Allistair Lomax