A High Court judge has ruled in favour of Guardian columnist Owen Jones in a libel case brought against him by a BBC editor.
Raffi Berg, the BBC’s Middle East editor, took legal action in November last year over a report by Jones which laid the blame for the BBC’s biased coverage of the Gaza genocide largely at Berg’s door.
The high court has now ruled that the article’s argument was acceptable because it expressed an opinion based on a quoted body of material.
In his article for Drop Site News, Jones accused Berg of sanitising coverage of Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza.
Berg instructed Mark Lewis of Patron Law, previously a director of UK Lawyers for Israel, as his solicitor.
So if Berg had any decency, he’d resign. Or if the BBC weren’t run by a mob of Tory relics, they’d fire him.
The court didn’t rule that Jones was correct, just that his opinion was formed from quoted sources.
