BBC removes banner supporting hunger-strikers rather than report on them

The BBC in Scotland has removed a protest banner hung in support of the eight members of the ‘Filton 24’ group of political prisoners who are on hunger strike. The move comes as the broadcaster maintains its relative silence on both the strike and the Starmer government’s Israel-driven decision to hold the anti-genocide prisoners in prison for more than a year without trial. Footage covered on a number of pro-Palestine social media pages showed protesters outside the BBC after the banner was in place:

BBC banner drop

The ‘No Pride in Genocide Glasgow’ group said that it had conducted the ‘banner drop’ to “call on the BBC to end its silence” about the hunger strikes. In a move as unsurprising as it was shameful, rather than end its silence the BBC chose to quietly remove the banner, without mentioning it or the political prisoners it supported, in its news coverage. The move did not escape notice, however:

 

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The ‘Mothers against Genocide Scotland’ group has posted a link to help those who want to complain to the BBC about the removal and its silence and complicity do so here.

The silence of the BBC and other ‘mainstream’ media on the hunger strikes, and the wider issue of the Starmer government’s internationally-condemned political imprisonment without trial of the ‘Filton 24’ anti-genocide activists, is part of an evident campaign of ‘omertà’ (a gangster code of silence) on the topic of Starmer’s police-state war on activists and journalists who speak out or act against Israel’s slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians, most of them children. Despite the inclusion of many journalists, often Jewish, among his targets, so-called ‘MSM’ journalists refuse to cover it.

Featured image via No Pride in Genocide Glasgow