Even the BBC Has Fallen to Trumpism and Zionist Censorship

An open letter signed by more than 600 influential people demands the BBC to revoke its decision to ban showing a documentary on how the Zionist genocide is being perpetrated in part by killing Palestinian medics and destroying hospitals and the entire and Gaza medical infrastructure, including maternities.

Among the more than 600 prominent figures who have signed the open letter are actress Susan Sarandon, filmmaker Mike Leigh and Channel 4 international editor Lindsey Hilsum. They are pressing the BBC to broadcast the documentary “Gaza: Medics Under Fire," which the BBC had shelved because of Zionist and American rightwing pressures.

The letter, addressed to BBC director-general Tim Davie, expresses “deep concern about the censorship of Palestinian voices” and calls for the immediate release of the documentary, which follows medical workers in Gaza.

“Gaza: Medics Under Fire” was produced by an award-winning team including Emmy and Peabody recipients Ben de Pear, Karim Shah and Ramita Navai. Originally scheduled to air in January, the documentary has been “indefinitely delayed” despite reportedly undergoing “rigorous editorial scrutiny” and multiple fact-checks.

“This is not editorial caution. It’s political suppression,” the letter states. “The BBC has provided no timeline, no transparency. Such decisions reinforce the systemic devaluation of Palestinian lives in our media”, consistent with the attempted war of annihilation of the Palestinian identity around the world and the genocidal war on the Palestinian population in Palestine itself that the Zionist Israeli regime has been perpetrating.

The production company, Basement Films, is quoted in the letter stating they are “desperate for a confirmed release date in order to be able to tell the surviving doctors and medics when their stories will be told.”

Other notable signatories include actors Miriam Margolyes, Maxine Peake, and Juliet Stevenson, comedians Frankie Boyle and Alexei Sayle, and numerous journalists, filmmakers and media professionals.

The letter concludes with a direct demand: “We demand a release date for ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ – NOW,” arguing that “no news organization should quietly decide behind closed doors whose stories are worth telling.”