There comes a point when you stop whispering and start shouting.

When playing the violin on the deck of the Titanic, as water floods the lower floors, isn’t dignified – it’s deranged. For David Collier, that point, for British Jews, is now.

In February, the investigative journalist from London blew the lid off one of the BBC’s most controversial programmes in recent memory – the Gaza documentary How To Survive a Warzone. At first glance, it was a hour-long look at children growing up in conflict. But Collier knew the ground too well to be taken in by its sentimentality.

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His revelations – that one of the central characters, 14-year-old Abdullah, was the son of Dr Ayman Al-Yazouri, a Hamas government official with ties to the terror group’s founding leadership – detonated across media and politics.

It wasn’t just poor judgment. It was editorial malpractice.

Worse, Collier found that a cameraman involved in filming, Amjad Al Fayoumi, had publicly celebrated the 7 October attacks and shared grotesque “resistance” clips online, including footage of dead Israelis and Hamas fighters launching rockets.

The BBC’s initial apology was vague, a hurried afterthought. But insiders – some deeply uncomfortable – described the internal reaction as a “slapdash cover-up”. That only fuelled the outrage.

Within days, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy raised the matter in Parliament. Former BBC One controller...

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