BBC lacks impartiality, lawyers say

Sometimes, you have to call a terrorist just that

The BBC has been accused of lacking impartiality for refusing to describe Hamas as terrorists.

The claim is made by a group of senior lawyers and a former director of the Conservative Friends of Israel in a letter to Lord Grade, chairman of the broadcasting regulator Ofcom.

Jeremy Brier KC, Lord Polak, Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC, Lord Pannick KC and Lord…