Exposed: BBC press officers refused to promote Emmy-winning Oct 7 documentary

BBC publicity staff refused to promote an Emmy-winning documentary about the victims of the Oct 7 massacre in Israel, The Telegraph can disclose.

The film, Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again, reconstructed the events at the Nova music festival, where 364 Israeli civilians were murdered, numerous attendees subject to rape and mutilation, and 44 were kidnapped and taken hostage.

The film was commissioned by the BBC, whose in-house publicists turned their back on it “due to its subject matter”, it is alleged.

They were allowed to “abandon their duties” by the BBC, according to Lucie Kon, a Jewish producer who later received a £400,000 payoff after being made redundant following a complaint she made about anti-Semitism.

Instead she had to hire a freelance publicist to organise a premiere, which included a question-and-answer session with survivors of the massacre.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/26/bbc-press-officers-refused-promote-oct-7-documentary/

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Chapers:
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Called partial 'for being Jewish'
1:40 - In-house BBC publicists refuse to work
3:03 - Premier location called 'Islamophobic'
4:28 - BBC 'shunned' Emmy winning film
5:10 - BBC response