英ＢＢＣがハマスを「テロリスト」としないことに抗議　本社前でデモ

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】英ロンドンの英国放送協会（ＢＢＣ）本社前で１６日、イスラム組織ハマスを「テロリストと呼ぶことを拒否し続けている」ことに対する抗議デモが行われ、約２５０人が参加した。（写真は英ロンドンのＢＢＣ本社前で行われた、ハマスを「テロリスト」と呼ばないことに抗議するデモの参加者が振るイスラエル国旗）
　デモはユダヤ人団体が主催した。ハマスを民兵組織や武装勢力と表現するＢＢＣの編集方針に対し、参加者らは「ハマス、テロリスト」「恥を知れ」などと叫んだ。
　大勢がイスラエル国旗を振り、ハマスに拉致されたイスラエルの子どもたちの写真が張られたポスターを掲げる人もいた。
　グラント・シャップス国防相は先週、政府は２０２１年にハマスをテロ組織と認定しており、法に従ってテロリストと表現すべきだと指摘した。
　ＢＢＣのベテラン記者で世界情勢編集長、ジョン・シンプソン氏は、ＢＢＣがハマスをテロリストと呼ぶことは「片方の側に立つ」ことになると述べた。
　ＢＢＣは１６日の声明で、イスラエル・ハマス衝突の報道については「慎重に検討」したと説明。ハマスが英国など各国政府によりテロ組織に認定されていることも視聴者に明示しているとしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/10/17-17:14）

Around 250 protesters gathered outside the BBC's main headquarters in London on Monday over the British broadcaster's continued refusal to call Hamas terrorists.
Demonstrators at the event, organised by Jewish groups, chanted Hamas, terrorists and Shame on You at the broadcaster for making the editorial decision to refer to Hamas as militants, or a militant group.
Many waved Israeli flags and others held posters carrying pictures of Israeli children kidnapped by Hamas.
Organisers, the National Jewish Assembly, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that this is no time the BBC to call Hamas anything but terrorists.
UK defence minister Grant Shapps also said last week that the BBC should follow the law and call Hamas a terrorist organisation, with the government having proscribed it as such in 2021.
But veteran reporter John Simpson, the BBC's world affairs editor, said that the corporation would be taking sides if it called Hamas terrorists.
The BBC said in a statement on Monday that it had given careful consideration to its coverage of conflict.
Careful consideration has been given to all aspects of our coverage to ensure that we report on developments accurately and with due impartiality in line with the BBC editorial guidelines, which are publicly available.
The BBC, along with many other UK and global news organisations, does use the word 'terrorist', but attributes it. We have made clear to our audiences that Hamas is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK and other governments, it added.
Pro-Palestinian groups have also targeted the BBC, covering Broadcasting House headquarters in red paint last week and accusing it of having blood on its hands.