To mark October 7, the BBC made a film about atrocities committed against 1,200 Israelis for a day one year ago called We Will Dance Again.

 

onathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

To mark October 7, the BBC made a film about atrocities committed against 1,200 Israelis for a day one year ago called We Will Dance Again. Al-Jazeera, meanwhile, has made a documentary, Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, showing the other side of the story: the relentless atrocities – revealed in footage few will ever have seen before – committed by Israel and its soldiers against 2.3 million Palestinians for a whole year. Those war crimes continue to this day – and are expanding. Hamas's October 7 atrocities have been endlessly aired by the BBC and others (though it needs pointing out both that a portion of those atrocities have been inflated or invented, such as the non-existent 'beheaded babies' and 'mass rapes', and that the author of some of the October 7 atrocities was actually Israel, through its invocation of the so-called Hannibal directive to shoot and kill its own civilians rather than let them be taken hostage.) Unless you spend lots of time on the margins of social media, you'll know almost nothing of Israel's far more numerous, far worse atrocities against the Palestinian people since October 7. Al Jazeera has given the victims of these war crimes a face, a back story, the chance to tell and show through video footage what really happened. The BBC has used the British public's license fees to keep the issue of October 7 at the very forefront of our minds, just as Israel wishes, to justify Israeli war crimes. And the same BBC has avoided showing the scale of extent of Israel's atrocities, and humanising its victims, because that would further fuel public opinion against these war crimes, as well as implicate not just Israeli leaders but also western leaders and media in what the World Court has ruled is a 'plausible genocide' in Gaza. Everyone needs to watch this documentary to gain a proper understanding of the events of the past year –an understanding the BBC and other media have worked so hard to deny them: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A