A petition has been presented to the BBC’s Aberdeen office in northern Scotland calling for the resignation of director general Mark Thompson in the latest public protest against the refusal by the broadcaster to show a coordinated appeal for Gaza aid. The demand was handed over during a protest against the continuing ban outside the Aberdeen offices organised by the UK’s largest peace group network, Stop the War Coalition (STWC). Local demonstrators carrying banners chant for Thompson to resign over continuing the ban in the face of widespread condemnation of his decision two weeks ago following Israel’s latest massacres in Gaza. The Crisis Gaza Appeal was launched on behalf of 13 leading British charities by the Disaster Emergency Committee. Elsewhere in Scotland, the BBC ban has been condemned by Liberal Democrat member of Edinburgh’s devolved parliament, Hugh O’Donnell, who joined an aid mission to Gaza just weeks before Israel launched its latest onslaught at the end of December.
BBC CHIEF MUST RESIGN OVER GAZA AID ISSUE
A petition has been presented to the BBC’s Aberdeen office in northern Scotland calling for the resignation of director general Mark Thompson in the latest public protest against the refusal by the broadcaster to show a coordinated appeal for Gaza aid.
