Lord Cameron to BBC: Time to call Hamas terrorists
'It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn - who are the good guys and who are the bad guys,' BBC said back in October
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron called on BBC to refer to Hamas as terrorists after the state broadcaster is continuing to call them “militants.”
In an interview with BBC Lord Cameron was asked about the Hamas propaganda video showing British-Israeli hostage Nadav Popplewell in a dire condition.
‘Like everyone else, I watched the video on Twitter/X last night, put out by Hamas of Nadav answering a question as to who he was. And I watched that video and you just think what callous people they are to do that, to play with the family’s emotions in that way.”
“I met Nadav’s family, his sister, and I know the heartbreak they’ve been going through for over 200 days, and when you see what Hamas are prepared to do, you just realise the terrible, dreadful, inhuman people, frankly, that we are dealing with,” Cameron said.
The Foreign Secretary then went on to say that this would be a month for the BBC “to ask itself again, should we describe these people as terrorists? They are terrorists.”
“If you kidnap grandmothers, if you kidnap babies, if you rape people, if you shoot children in front of their parents – what more do they need to do for the BBC to say ‘look these are terrorists’. They really are,” he added.
BBC has been under heavy criticism since October 7 for refusing to refer to Hamas as terrorists.
“Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn – who are the good guys and who are the bad guys,” the BBC said back in October after numerous complaints.
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