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The pincer movement against the BBC

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  • 19 Apr 2025 11:55
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Internal Zionist infiltration and external Zionist pressure

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  • David Collier is the Zionist troll operative behind the intimidation of the BBC resulting in the removal of the Documentary How to Survive in a War Zone. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)
    David Collier is the Zionist troll operative behind the intimidation of the BBC resulting in the removal of the Documentary How to Survive in a War Zone. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)

So the BBC Director General, Tim Davie has agreed there should be an independent inquiry into the corporation's coverage of what they will not call the genocide in Palestine.

Pulling the documentary Gaza: How to Survive in a warzone from the BBC iPlayer platform was an act of political cowardice all too familiar for critics of the corporation. 

Multiple assets of the Zionist regime bullied and intimidated the corporation into this craven act of cowardice.

But perhaps what needs explaining is, first, how and why this documentary was ever made in an institution which long ago departed from the most basic journalistic standards? And second, how is it that pressure from assets of a hostile foreign state can be so successful?

The history of censorship at the BBC has historically been focused on current affairs and documentary programmes.  The reason for this is that they are more distant from the everyday pressure of official control than in the news rooms.  As a result, historically, this is the reason that this type of programming has most often borne the brunt of British state and latterly Zionist campaigns of intimidation.  During the conflict in the north of Ireland, more than 100 programmes were banned, censored, or delayed on British TV.

Zionist infiltration in BBC senior management

But pressure from the outside is only part of the explanation.  The fact is that Zionist infiltration is a major problem. Earlier this year, Mossad fan Raffi Berg was revealed as a gatekeeper on most BBC news coverage. The picture is no better at the very top of the corporation where the Editorial guidelines and standards committee has included convinced Zionists. For example:

  • Richard Sharp, the former Chairman of the BBC (from February 2021 to June 2023), is a hardline Zionist. A CV disclosed by the Westminster Parliament reveals him as, amongst other things, a former Goldman Sachs (1985-2007) and JP Morgan banker (1978-1984), a director at the CIA created front group the International Rescue Committee (2005-2013) and donor to the British intelligence created and Zionist funded Quilliam Foundation.
  • Robbie Gibb is a fanatical Zionist who led the consortium to buy out the failing Jewish Chronicle and became the sole director of the company that runs it. He took a step back from that after concerted pressure was applied over his continuing role on the editorial standards committee.

Also on that committee is an ‘independent’ member, Nicholas Serota. Serota has had a long career in the art world and is also a Zionist and opponent of BDS. Of the five members, then, either 2 (or 3 when Sharp was in position) are Zionists. Given that committee member, Director General, Tim Davie, is a former Conservative candidate, it is little surprise that the BBC is completely unwilling to cover the genocide properly and will roll over at the slightest pressure from the Zionist troll army.

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David Collier, genocidal Zionist

David Collier is the Zionist troll operative behind the intimidation of the BBC resulting in the removal of the Documentary How to Survive in a War Zone.

But who is David Collier, and why is he not just ignored?

Collier is a British former settler-colonist who admits to having spent “19 years in Israel between 1987 and 2006”. Since 2014, he has been posting material intended to undermine Palestine solidarity work in the UK, and from at least 2019 was recruited directly by the Zionist regime. Here he is in March 2019 in Tel Aviv to attend the DigiTell19 conference, an event held to co-ordinate the global troll network overseen by the Ministry of Strategic Affaits.

When he was there, he regaled participants with stories of the infiltration of Palestine solidarity groups.

Collier is closely networked with the far right, as evident in this 2017 photograph of him with Britain First's Paul Besser and many other ultra-Zionist activists.

In early 2018 Collier was a speaker at the re-launch of the far right Revisionist Zionist Herut UK party, hosted by Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal of UK Lawyers for Israel, another Zionist regime front group.

The GnasherJew handle is run, according to its own account, by four individuals, but it is clear that the GnasherJew operation involves more than just those four anonymous users. Nevertheless, Collier has been revealed to be a main contributor.

In March 2018, in a confusion about which account was posting what, GnasherJew tweeted “Sorry we are quiet (relatively speaking) we are down a man & working on something massive.” Hours earlier, Collier had tweeted, “Sorry for delay. I’m just one man, a keyboard and a refusal to admit the bone has been fully licked. But it’s time. Out within 24 hours.” In short, the only man working on Gnasher’s “massive” project was Collier.

In July 2020, it was announced that he had joined forces with three other members of the regime troll network: Joseph Cohen of the Israel Advocacy Movement, Simon Cobbs from Sussex Friends of Israel, and Raphi Bloom from North West Friends of Israel, to form the Israel Coalition

Collier posted excitedly in 2020 about his daughter joining the genocidal occupation forces. According to later posts, she joined via the Lone Soldier programme, which aims to groom and radicalise foreign nationals to fight in the Zionist occupation forces, and served for two years at least.

 

Let’s hope that she is on the list of British recruits to the IOF who will be arrested and arraigned at the Hague on war crimes charges, the next time she sets foot in the UK.

The power of the Zionist movement to bully, harass, and intimidate the BBC and other broadcasters is markedly enhanced by the infiltration of Zionists into senior and key positions in the corporation. But, for the bullying to work, it requires not just the routine propaganda of the Zionist regime, but an army of Zionist trolls and lobby groups to pressure from the outside.  This is the classic Zionist strategy - play both sides, and capture institutions in a pincer movement. The BBC, along with many other UK institutions, has been fully captured by a hostile foreign and genocidal state.

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect Al Mayadeen’s editorial stance.
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