From today’s Daily Telegraph and Amir Tsarfati’s Behold Israel Telegram channel:

‘The Embassy of Israel in the United Kingdom takes note of the resignations of BBC Director-General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness. These resignations come in the wake of serious and long-standing concerns about the BBC’s biased and deeply flawed coverage of Israel, particularly during the war against Hamas.

For years, we have repeatedly warned about the BBC’s consistent failures to uphold the standards of accuracy, impartiality, and integrity expected from a public broadcaster. The BBC’s reporting, especially by BBC Arabic, has too often distorted reality, omitted vital context, and provided a platform for antisemitic and extremist narratives. This failure has contributed to public misinformation, hostility towards Israel and Jewish people, and, tragically, to the radicalisation of audiences in the UK and across the Middle East.

We hope that this moment will serve as a turning point. The BBC must seize this opportunity to restore public trust by ensuring fair, factual, and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East. Accountability and transparency must replace denial and defensiveness.

We call for full accountability for those responsible for the editorial failings of BBC Arabic and for full reform to ensure that its future reporting meets the standards expected of the BBC.

Israel values the role of a free and responsible press. It is our sincere hope that, under new leadership, the BBC will recommit itself to those principles and rebuild a relationship with its audiences, based on truth, integrity, and respect.’

Also, from Facebook’s Commonsense Politics Mark Scott writes,

THE CASE AGAINST THE BBC

‘Tim Davie’s resignation is not a mystery ..it is a reckoning.

When the BBC, the nation’s public broadcaster, edits the words of a world leader, it ceases to report events and begins to manufacture them. At that moment, impartiality becomes illusion.

For years, audiences have seen the pattern: selective framing, loaded emphasis, and a quiet shaping of narrative behind the veil of neutrality. The Panorama edit merely brought it into daylight. What the BBC once denied, it now concedes that truth was bent to fit the story.

This isn’t about ideology. It’s about integrity. A public broadcaster exists to present reality as it is, not as it wishes it to appear.

When the facts are cut and rearranged, trust is the first casualty and with trust gone, leadership cannot stand.

Davie’s resignation is not closure; it is Exhibit A in the case for reform.

The next chapter will decide whether the BBC rediscovers its purpose or forfeits it forever.

You cannot edit the truth and still claim to tell it and that, in the end, is why he’s gone.’