A leaked internal memo at the BBC reveals the news corporation instructed its staff to slant its reporting of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza to vilify Israel and the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is trying to feed the citizens, according to a new report.

As Jonathan Sacerdoti of The Spectator reports, “A leaked internal email from a BBC executive editor reveals that the Corporation has issued prescriptive instructions to staff on how to cover the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The memo, titled ‘Covering the food crisis in Gaza,’ amounts to a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality, elevates one side of a deeply contested narrative, and imposes a specific anti-Israel legal-political framing as settled fact.”

The email was sent on Friday, June 25. It commences by contending that “the argument over how much aid has crossed into Gaza is irrelevant,” while enjoining the staff that “we should say” the current distribution system “doesn’t work.”

“It explicitly favours a particular explanation of suffering in Gaza: one that blames the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a relatively new aid body established with US and Israeli cooperation, while glossing over the role of Hamas, the rulers of Gaza and a proscribed terrorist organisation under British law,” Sacerdoti writes, adding that by arguing that the amount of aid doesn’t matter, the BBC ignores that Hamas has been widely reported to be hijacking, obstructing, or reselling aid.

“The BBC’s memo labels the GHF system a failure and instructs staff to say so,” Sacerdoti reports, pointing out, “The BBC – which declined to comment on the email – appears content to accept casualty figures and starvation claims from Hamas-linked bodies or sympathetic NGOs as definitive, while dismissing or omitting Israeli data and counterclaims. The email directs staff to reference ‘mounting evidence’ of starvation and deaths around aid centres, yet makes no mention of Hamas operatives looting convoys, obstructing access, or even firing on civilians attempting to collect food – allegations which have been made publicly by Israel and backed at times by video and eyewitness testimony.”

“Nor is the GHF model simply an improvised, amateur system as the memo suggests,” he continues. “On the contrary, it is a tightly managed, military-grade distribution network designed to ensure aid reaches civilians directly and safely. Operated by vetted personnel with logistical oversight, GPS tracking, and on-the-ground medical and security staff, the GHF has reported a zero aid diversion rate. By contrast, the UN system the BBC nostalgically defends saw multiple convoys looted at gunpoint, with documented losses reaching 90 per cent in some cases.”

Sacerdoti notes that the BBC’s contention that the older model of supplying humanitarian aid (prior to the advent of the GHF) “did work” fails the acid test, as the BBC itself “breathlessly reported widespread hunger under that very system well before the GHF system was in place.”

He then turns to the email’s declaration that it is “indisputable” that Israel is the occupying power in Gaza and thus the entity responsible for preventing hunger. “This claim is presented without qualification, despite the fact that the status of Gaza under international law is disputed,” he points out, adding that Israel has stated it neither governs Gaza nor maintains a permanent presence.

“The BBC’s own editorial guidelines insist that politically contested labels such as ‘occupation’ should be attributed and contextualised, not asserted. That rule has been disregarded,” he states.

“Why is it our national broadcaster seems so desperate to attack the one non-Israeli body which is doing the most to undermine the Hamas stranglehold over Gaza and its people?” Sacerdoti asks rhetorically. “The closer the GHF and Israeli army get to finally defeating the terrorists, the more shrill the BBC’s insistence that the Jewish state is deliberately starving children. They have trouble believing a self-declared Islamic jihadist dictatorship might have designed this level of suffering and torture, but none in believing the Jewish democratic state did so.”

“The BBC is publicly funded and legally obligated to remain impartial. This latest leaked email suggests it is failing in that duty. As ever, there is virtually no chance the organisation will admit, redress or be penalised for this failing. They never are,” he concludes.

One of the nation’s leading labor unions has been at the forefront in the fight against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. But one of the union’s affiliates is the largest shareholder in a bank that has invested nearly $10 million in companies that contract with ICE, equipping agents for raids and managing illegal alien detention facilities.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its affiliate, Workers United, have both vocally opposed ICE’s immigration enforcement operations. The SEIU joined recent protests against ICE in Los Angeles and railed against the “ICE terror machine.” The union’s anti-ICE activism hit a fever pitch after SEIU leader David Huerta was arrested by federal agents and charged with conspiracy to impede an officer after he allegedly attempted to prevent federal authorities from executing a search warrant in Los Angeles.

Workers United has said that it is “committed to passing comprehensive immigration reform that allows all immigrant workers to live and work without fear,” and the Starbucks Workers United division has called for “an end to the ICE raids.”

Workers United is also the single largest shareholder in Amalgamated Bank, an ideologically-driven financial institution that parrots left-wing talking points on climate change and the diversity agenda and brands itself “America’s socially responsible bank.” The SEIU affiliate owns 40% of Amalgamated Bank, according to the financial institution. The bank even boasted that the top five Democratic presidential campaigns banked with Amalgamated during the 2020 election season.

But first quarter 2025 disclosures filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal that the bank is invested in at least four companies that contract with ICE or Border Patrol.

The bank held over $1.1 million worth of shares in the GEO Group, which “operates special-purpose, state-of-the-art residential centers on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” according to the group’s website.

The bank’s longstanding investment in the GEO Group appears to have been particularly profitable, with the stock increasing in value by nearly 85% since the last quarter of 2022.

The SEC disclosure indicates that Amalgamated Bank held roughly $633,000 in CoreCivic, which calls itself “a longstanding federal government partner that operates immigration detention facilities.”

Of the top 2o ICE detention centers by detainee population as of January, Amalgamated Bank was invested in 13 of them because it owns shares of the GEO Group and CoreCivic, research from the Center for Union Facts indicates.

“Workers United has backed high-profile organizing campaigns by riding the wave of young workers’ progressive ideals,” said the Center for Union Facts’ Communications Director Charlyce Bozzello. “But behind the union’s carefully crafted image as a social justice warrior lies hypocrisy the union doesn’t publicize. It’s time workers and the public take a hard look at what this union really stands for.”

Amalgamated Bank also held more than $8.1 million worth of shares in Axon Enterprises, which was awarded a multimillion-dollar federal contract to provide ICE agents with tasers. The bank held another $27,000 worth of shares in Cadre Holdings, which does business with ICE and Customs and Border Protection, supplying the federal government with riot control equipment under the brand names “Safariland” and “Aardvark.”

Workers United, SEIU, and Amalgamated Bank did not respond to requests for comment.