We now know something about BBC employment policies: You can utter a borderline blood libel and keep your job
That insight came in an interview with Naftali Bennett during last week’s IDF operation in Jenin, when Gadgil accused Israelis forces of happily killing children, and escaped with nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
“The Israeli military are calling this a military operation, but we know that young people are being killed, four of them under 18. Is that really what the military set out to do, to kill people between the ages of 16 and 18?” Gadgil asked.
Dumbfounded, the normally fluent Bennett was left to splutter that whatever their age, the gunmen were terrorists, to which the presenter responded: “Terrorists — but children. The Israeli forces are happy to kill children.”
The exchange predictably went viral, and the BBC was forced to issue a non-apology. Her words covered a “legitimate subject,” although they weren’t “phrased well,” the broadcaster said.
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