BBC hires pro-Zionist company to find new Director-General

The BBC has launched the application portal for its new Director-General, using a firm which has previously advised Israeli businesses.

BBC Director-General recruitment: managed by Zionists?

The firm it has chosen to oversee recruitment is Egon Zehnder – which previously guided Israeli startups on ‘unlocking leadership at scale’. 

Additionally, one of their consultants is heading to what can only be described as a genocide conference next week. ‘Defense Tech Week’ is taking place in Tel Aviv, from December 2-5.

Simon Kantor, a British Consultant at Egon Zehnder, is one of the speakers at this year’s event.

His bio states:

he leads Defense Technology work for Egon Zehnder, the Global Leadership Advisory firm. He works with Governments, Corporations, Investors and Start-Ups to build and develop their leadership teams. In his earlier career, Simon led international teams at Google and Twitter (now X), as well as working for the UK Government and the Boston Consulting Group.

So not only is he in the weapons manufacturers’ pockets, but he appears to be in the UK government’s pants, too.

Importantly, the events webpage lists its main sponsors. It includes Elbit Systems, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, along with a whole list of other defense, tech and weapons companies which are swimming in the blood of Palestinians.

Lockheed Martin supplies Israel with F-35 warplanes. Whilst Palantir is responsible for the intense surveillance of Palestinians, and Elbit is the main supplier of weapons to the criminals of the Israeli Genocide Forces (IGF).

Speakers at the conference include executives from Elbit and Palantir, the Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Defense, IDF soldiers, and even Trump’s assistant secretary of war.

‘Impartiality’

The BBC claims it is an impartial public broadcaster. Yet here it is employing a company that is actively choosing to mix and do business with Zionist terrorists. And the BBC is using it to recruit its new Director-General.

How are we supposed to trust that it will pick an impartial candidate when the company is already so clearly in the pants of murderers?

Previously, 111 BBC journalists revolted over the company’s pro-Israel bias.

As the Canary previously reported, the signatories said:

All too often it has felt that the BBC has been performing PR for the Israeli government and military. This should be a cause of great shame and concern for everyone at the BBC.

The Centre for Media Monitoring also released a report on BBC bias during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It revealed the stark decisions to place significantly more value on Israeli lives than on Palestinian lives.

It noted that Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 34 times more Palestinians. However, Israelis who died got 33 times more coverage. The BBC also interviewed more than twice as many Israelis as Palestinians.

The Canary previously reported that:

The BBC also regularly tried to push guests to condemn the resistance of Hamas, while never asking any to condemn Israel’s genocidal war crimes. This is despite Israel not having the right to “self-defence against a threat that emanates from a territory it occupies” and international law protecting the right of Palestinian people to resist Israeli occupation.

At the same time, the public broadcaster seemed to do its best to ignore the decades-long historical context of illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the apartheid system Israel has set up, and the ongoing ethnic cleansing via illegal settlements. It managed to mention the word ‘occupation’ a small handful of times, but the other issues were “all missing from the story”.

Additionally, another study showed many facets of the BBC’s conservative leanings and pro-big-business stance. It showed how the BBC laid the foundations for Brexit by scapegoating the EU as a major cause of people’s woes. Again, anything but impartial.

Anti-left bias

A great example of the BBC’s extreme bias is Question Time. Right-wing panelists are massively over represented. The standard is one genuinely critical voice, if any, and four others who all broadly support neoliberalism (the status quo).

But already this year, the BBC was caught rigging Question Time to turn away pro-Palestine audience members at the door.

A great example is the representation of Reform on Question Time. Of the 27 episodes so far this year, Reform UK has appeared on 12 panels. It only has five MPs.

In comparison, the Lib Dems, who have 72 MPs, have only appeared on 10 panels. How is that balanced?

It is well known that silence benefits the oppressor – and that would be bad enough. But the BBC has been anything but silent when it comes to Israeli voices, Hamas, and the views of the right-wing.

By employing a company which appears to have several ties to the terrorist state of Israel to oversee Director-General recruitment – the BBC is showing us that once again, it does not care about impartiality. It cares about upholding the status quo, and enabling genocide.

Feature image via HG