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<\/p>\nITV\u00a0News aired an interview with a British Palestinian woman on Islamophobia in the UK just days after she described the\u00a0the murder of Jews as a ‘homecoming’ on Iranian state TV and called Hamas terror attacks a ‘moment of triumph’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Board of Deputies of British Jews slammed ITV for its ‘staggering failures of due diligence’ for giving a platform to Latifa Abouchakra, who has been accused of being a propagandist for Tehran.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms Abouchakra, a reporter for Iranian state news channel Press TV, was interviewed about her experiences of Islamophobia in England.<\/p>\n
During the broadcast Ms Abouchakra, who was described as a ‘British Palestinian woman living in London’, said that she had been ‘called a terrorist’ by strangers in the street.<\/p>\n
But critics are urging ITV’s chief executive Dame Carolyn Julia McCall to issue a ‘public apology’ for giving ‘airtime to a literal propagandist for the Iranian regime’.<\/p>\n
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Latifa Abouchakra, a reporter for Iranian state news channel Press TV, was interviewed on ITV News about her experiences of Islamophobia in England<\/p>\n
Last week, in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Israel that left 1,400 people dead and hundreds taken hostage, Ms Abouchakra produced a report describing the assault as a ‘homecoming’ of ‘Palestinian resistance factions’.<\/p>\n
She also described the hostages, around 20 of whom are children, as ‘prisoners of war’.<\/p>\n
In a video shared on her Instagram shortly after the terror attacks on October 7, a smiling Ms Abouchakra said: ‘Nothing will ever be able to take back this moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘This moment of triumph, this moment of resistance, this moment of surprise. This moment of humiliation on behalf of the Zionist entity. Nothing, ever.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
A letter signed by Marie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: ‘ITV’s decision to invite on Ms Abouchakra […] out of millions of British Muslims, was an astonishingly bad one.<\/p>\n
‘As a 20-second internet search could have informed your channel’s researchers, Ms Abouchakra is a reporter for Palestine Declassified, a show produced by Press TV, the state channel of the Iranian regime.’<\/p>\n
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During the broadcast Ms Abouchakra, who was described as a ‘British Palestinian woman living in London ‘, said that she had been ‘called a terrorist’ by strangers in the street<\/p>\n
‘This was a catastrophic breach of your channel’s journalistic standards.<\/p>\n
‘I sincerely hope that your channel will be issuing a public apology for this egregiously incompetent decision.’<\/p>\n
A spokesman for ITV said: ‘ITV News London broadcast a report on the rise in hate crime following recent events in the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘We are investigating concerns that were raised about one contributor following the broadcast.’<\/p>\n