B’nai B’rith International CEO Dan Mariaschin sent a letter to the BBC expressing outrage at the blood libel accusation from one of its news anchors.

BBC News presenter Anjana Gadgil pulled back the curtain on anti-Israel bias at the network when she said during an interview with former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that “The Israeli forces are happy to kill children.”

The presumptuousness of Gadgil is staggering. She asks no questions about the actual acts of terrorism against Israelis which emanated from Jenin. She also shows no understanding about how the terrorists located their command center, including explosives, in a highly populated area near a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school, and near a mosque, purposely endangering Palestinian residents of the area. Or perhaps she understands and is choosing to omit this vital information to stick with her narrative?

Gadgil’s inflammatory and baseless allegations represent anything but objective and unbiased reporting.

This flagrant departure from responsible journalism helps fuel Jew-hatred and anti-Zionism. Gadgil’s leading questions disregard entirely that the majority of those “children” killed in Jenin were terrorists proudly attacking Israel. Her unbalanced perspective was clearly meant to vilify Israel, which in fact, is on the defensive here as it combats incessant terrorist attacks.

The BBC failed epically in its responsibility to uphold the highest standards of journalistic integrity, including impartiality, accuracy and fairness.

We hope top officials will investigate this incident and work to set clear guardrails to prohibit news readers from reciting such inflammatory rhetoric on air. It is imperative that the BBC works to uphold journalistic credibility before it permanently corrodes and undermines the trust of its audience.