Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists'

Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson

2023-10-12 01:50

It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn, writes the BBC's World Affairs editor.

Government ministers, newspaper columnists, ordinary people - they're all asking why the BBC doesn't say the Hamas gunmen who carried out appalling atrocities in southern Israel are terrorists.

The answer goes right back to the BBC's founding principles.

Terrorism is a loaded word, which...