LONDON: Pro-Palestinian activists splattered the BBC New Broadcasting House in London with red paint to protest the network’s “biased” reporting on events in Israel and Gaza.
Journalist Victoria Derbyshire posted footage on Saturday showing the front of the Broadcasting House with its revolving doors and right wall covered in blood-red paint.
UK-based Palestine Action claimed responsibility for the damage on Twitter, saying it had “left a message overnight for the BBC.”
The group tweeted: “Spreading the occupation’s lies and manufacturing consent for Israel’s war crimes means (sic) you have Palestinian blood on your hands. #ShutBBCDown.”
Later in the day, it tweeted: “Palestine Action sprayed the BBC with blood-red paint, symbolizing their complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people through biased reporting.”
Earlier in the day, there appeared to be unsuccessful attempts to clean the paint off the building, the Telegraph reported.
The vandalism occurred before a pro-Palestine march that began in front of the building at noon. Palestine Action describes itself as a “direct action network dismantling British complicity in Israeli apartheid.”
Members of the group have launched similar protests in the past, notably throwing red paint on offices and factories belonging to the Israel-based defense electronics company Elbit Systems.
The Metropolitan Police told the Telegraph that while they were “aware of the criminal damage” to Broadcasting House, there was “no suggestion it is linked to any protest group.”
