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Gary Lineker, Riz Ahmed, Ken Loach, Indira Varma Join Hundreds In Signing Open Letter Condemning BBC “Censorship On Palestine” As Gaza Documentary Row Deepens
Gary Lineker among hundreds to sign letter condemning BBC "censorship on Palestine" after the 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone' documentary debacle.
Five hundred people from the entertainment world, including Match of the Day host Gary Lineker, Riz Ahmed, Ken Loach, Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett, and Game of Thrones actor Indira Varma, have put their names to a letter to BBC bosses calling on the corporation to “stop censorship on Palestine.” The letter, which was also signed by actors Khalid Abdalla, India Amarteifio, Miriam Margolyes, Ruth Negga, and Juliet Stevenson, did not deny the narrator’s links to Hamas but said his father, Dr Ayman Al-Yazouri, served as Gaza’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture, a “civil service role concerned with food production.” 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.
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