Pro-Palestine legal centre urges BBC to drop Robbie Gibb over Jewish Chronicle scandal

A pro-Palestine legal advocacy group has called on the BBC to dismiss board member Robbie Gibb over his links to the Jewish Chronicle, which has been embroiled in a scandal of fake Gaza stories.

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) accused Gibb of “failure to uphold editorial standards” while being the Jewish Chronicle’s director. 

In an open letter on Friday, the London-based group said the recent scandal “casts significant doubt on his capabilities to uphold the BBC’s standards”.

“His continued tenure as a non-executive board member poses reputational damages for the BBC,” the ICJP said.

“Further, his partisan politics with regards to his well-documented pro-Israel sentiment makes him unsuitable to have input over editorial standards at the BBC at a time when coverage of the Israel-Hamas war is so contested.”

Earlier this month, the Jewish Chronicle was forced to retract a series of articles alleged to contain fabricated quotes from Israeli officials. 

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