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Ken Loach, Riz Ahmed, Mike Leigh and More Sign Open Letter in Support of Pulled BBC Gaza Documentary: It’s ‘Politically Motivated Censorship’
Ken Loach, Riz Ahmed and other U.K.-based film and TV professionals have signed a letter against the BBC's decision to pull its recent Gaza doc.
In a strongly worded open letter to BBC leadership, a group of U.K.-based film and television professionals have condemned the broadcaster’s decision to remove the documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone” from its streaming platform iPlayer. Hamas is the terrorist organization responsible for the Oct. 7 attack in Israel, killing about 1,200 people and sparking the war in Gaza, which has resulted in the deaths of more than 48,000 Palestinians, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The coalition urges the BBC to “reject attempts to have the documentary permanently removed or subjected to undue disavowals,” arguing that capitulation would signal that “Palestinian children’s stories are only valid if their families pass arbitrary ‘purity tests.
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