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The Owen Jones Podcast

Gaza Child: Blame BBC If Anything Happens To Me - w/. Richard Sanders

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

News & Politics, Politics, Government, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0

Now, the BBC has been widely condemned and criticised throughout Israel's genocide, including,

0:04.6

I have to say by myself, for its coverage of Israel's genocide, longslaw, against the

0:10.3

Palestinian people.

0:11.8

There was a rare exception, apparently, when the BBC did a documentary which humanised

0:18.0

Palestinians.

0:18.9

It focused, not least, on the experience of children.

0:23.1

We've witnessed one of the great slaughters of children in some form of armed conflict,

0:31.1

it being so asymmetrical, that terms, slightly problematic, but of our time.

0:35.3

I mean, thousands and thousands and thousands of children,

0:38.5

at least 1,100 babies have been slaughtered. So children's experience shown, and then

0:45.0

there was a big backlash to take the documentary off for reasons we will explain.

0:50.3

Now, I'm going to talk to the brilliant Richard Sanders, who's a fantastic journalist,

0:54.5

who's done incredible work, including for Al Jazeera, but elsewhere, Channel 4.

0:59.4

But brilliant, really superb work, which I've spoken to him about, you about.

1:04.0

I'll stop speaking about the third person on this channel.

1:07.7

So you know how these things work.

1:09.7

You've been around in the broadcasting world.

1:11.9

Before I talk to you, Richard, I'm just going to show a clip. And it is on the young lad,

1:17.4

the young boy, this controversy has focused on. It is Abdullah al-Jusuri, who is 13 years old.

1:25.3

He was the narrator of Gaza, How to Survive a War Zone, which was on the BBC.

1:29.7

And because his father was a technocratic deputy agricultural minister, I believe, the program was

1:39.9

taken off air. Let's just listen to what Abdullah says about this.

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