During the post-October 7 conflict in Gaza, you eagerly acted as a mouthpiece for Hamas. Since attention shifted to Israel’s northern border – you have seamlessly exchanged Hamas’s colours for those of Hezbollah. When will you stop shilling for terrorists?

The latest Hezbollah propaganda piece

You have just published yet another “human interest” story on Lebanon (5 May) – this time focusing on the fallout from the Israeli attacks of 8 April. A month after the event, this can hardly be classified as news. BBC activist-journalists simply wanted to repackage an old anti-Israel story and present it as new – all part of the never-ending conveyor belt in the factory that is the BBC’s anti-Israel bias.

There is no context to the piece at all. Hezbollah is treated as an alien invader, completely disconnected from the wider Shia community in Sth Lebanon. The conflict is presented as a “both-sides” issue, with Hezbollah’s grassroots support wrongly portrayed as innocent victims of a conflict in which they have no interest.

The face of the article is identified only as “Mohammed”, and we are told he lost his son in the attack. Having failed to make clear that Mohammed lives in the heart of a Hezbollah stronghold, the journalist then lets him describe how he would never live in a building with Hezbollah.

Then it gets worse. In an inversion of the truth, the BBC explicitly promotes the idea that this man’s support for Hezbollah (voiced in Arab media interviews) only arose because he lost his son. And for those who did not grasp that narrative the first time, the BBC repeats it, stating it is “a sentiment echoed by many we spoke to in areas that have been consistently attacked by Israel.”

The conclusion for the audience is clear. Innocent Lebanese civilians like Mohammed are portrayed as tragically losing their children, despite having nothing to do with Hezbollah – and any evidence that they support Hezbollah is framed as a consequence of Israel continuing to attack them for no reason.

Finding Mohammed and his son

Armed only with the name Mohammed, and knowing he lived somewhere in southern Beirut, the odds of finding him were not great. I often wonder whether the BBC does this deliberately, to shield its stories from fact-checkers. But I am an obstinate person, and eventually, inside the Lebanese Shia haystack, I found him. His name is Abbas Mohammad Khair al-Din, and while the surname is very common within Hezbollah communities, it allowed me to identify his son as well.

His son’s name was Abbas Khair al-Din. Here are two pictures of him:

But the important photograph is this one – an image of his grave, complete with martyr images and visible Hezbollah affiliation:

If the son was affiliated with Hezbollah (and he clearly was) – the father’s story cannot be true. More to the point, why is the BBC journalist promoting pro-Hezbollah narratives, turning the supporters of a proscribed terrorist group into the conflict’s innocent victims?

Where is the truth?

The journalist behind this particular mess is Nawal Al-Maghafi. Her timeline is full of clear anti-Israel bias, non-factual commentary, Hamas propaganda presented as news, and retweets of Gaza-based activists whom no respectable journalist should be seen amplifying.

In this latest case, either she did not bother to dig for the truth of the Hezbollah affiliation at all, or chose to turn a blind eye to it.

Why is it that these Arabic journalists are given carte blanche to piggyback on the BBC’s name and spend money from the British licence fee promoting such a blatant anti-Israel agenda?

The truth is this: Hezbollah is a proscribed jihadist terror group that seeks to wipe Israel off the map. Funded, armed, and often directed by the Iranian regime, it has exported its violence to arenas such as the Syrian civil war. Hezbollah chose to attack Israel on 8 October 2023, and again at the start of the latest round of violence. Israel has no territorial dispute with Lebanon – and without Hezbollah’s religious fundamentalism in the south, there would be no conflict. All of Lebanon’s woes stem from the refusal of the Shia in the south to abandon their jihadist aims.

So why is there not a single BBC article that lays out this context clearly for its audience? Those who support Hezbollah – including this man’s own community – have brought devastation to both Lebanon and Israel.

Isn’t it about time that the BBC took away the pen from those journalists who clearly hate Israel and defunded its anti-Israel agenda? More importantly, when will the BBC stop shilling for terrorists?

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