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BBC Faces Dilemma Over New L.A. Wildfires Doc Made By ‘Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone’ Director Jamie Roberts

The BBC's 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone' director Jamie Roberts is making an LA Wildfires doc and the corporation faces a dilemma.

Now, the corporation must decide whether it continues working with Roberts after last week criticizing him for failing to disclose that a young narrator in How to Survive a Warzone was the son of a Hamas Minister. The show, which was co-directed by Palestinian filmmaker Yousef Hammash, has since been removed from iPlayer, but there are growing concerns that other contributors had links to Hamas, which is proscribed as a terror group by the UK government. A group of 45 Jewish TV executives who penned an open letter to the BBC led by the corporation’s ex-content boss Danny Cohen accused the broadcaster of “throwing the producer of the documentary under the bus” when it chided Roberts.

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