PALESTINE Action protesters drenched BBC buildings in red paint on Saturday morning over the media outlet’s coverage of Israeli war crimes.

The activists took aim at both the BBC’s London headquarters, New Broadcasting House, as well as the BBC Hanover Building in Liverpool which houses Radio Merseyside.

Writing on X, Palestine Action accused the BBC of “spreading the occupation’s lies and manufacturing consent for Israel’s war crimes,” adding that they have “Palestinian blood on their hands.”

The activists said that the BBC had engaged in biased and inaccurate reporting on the Israeli response to the Al-Aqsa Flood operation.

In a statement, the activists said that the BBC only ever invited Palestinians to comment when Israelis are killed, with little regard for Palestinians killed by Israel: “Such as in the case of Palestinian ambassador Husam Zomlot, who was expected to condemn Israeli deaths immediately after informing the BBC he had lost six family members.”

The pro-Palestine group criticised the BBC for not reporting on misinformation being spread by international media, such as false claims of mass rape and decapitated babies.

It also slammed the corporation for not mentioning the 75-year-long oppression of Palestine in “guides” to the “conflict.”

A Palestine Action spokesperson said: “We at Palestine Action cannot stand by and let Western media justify and manufacture consent for genocide through racist, callous coverage. 

“The media has long been an insidious weapon of Western imperialism against Palestine and other Arab countries, with the use of colonial myths and orientalist tropes laying the ground for millions of people to be murdered. 

“As the Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd said: ‘This is the Iraq war all over again. The media has the bloodiest hands in all of this’.”