A BBC editor is suing a left-wing British columnist over an article claiming the state-run broadcaster is biased in Israel’s favor.

The editor at the network—which is known for its anti-Israel reporting—received death threats over the article, according to documents submitted in the libel claim.

Raffi Berg, who has served as the Middle East editor of the BBC ’s website for the last 12 years, filed the suit against Owen Jones over an article headlined “The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza” and published on the Drop Site News website last year.

The article asserts that BBC staff told Jones that Berg “plays a key role in a wider BBC culture of ‘systematic Israeli propaganda.’”

Jones’s article additionally claimed staff told him that Berg “reshapes everything from headlines, to stor

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