SYSTEMIC and long-term anti-Palestinian bias is “sanitising genocide” across Britain’s mainstream media platforms, new data has warned.

Analysis of excerpts by media monitoring organisation NewsCord today found that the BBC, Guardian and Sky News consistently use language, tone and framing to “dehumanise Palestinian casualties and whitewash Israeli violence.”

They also include fewer Palestinian voices and give less word count to them compared to Israeli voices, the group said.

The BBC uses a passive voice in nearly four out of five Palestinian casualty sentences, removing responsibility, and humanises Israeli captives twice as often as Palestinian ones.

The broadcaster has reported only one genocidal statement from an Israeli leader, despite Law for Palestine estimating over 500 have been made.

The BBC’s reporting labels death toll citations as from the “Hamas-affiliated” Gaza Health Ministry in 60 per cent of cases, but mentions that the UN recognises this as a credible source just 0.6 per cent of the time.

The BBC attributes Israeli attacks explicitly to Israel just half the time, while Sky News and the Guardian do so in only 54 per cent of cases.

The research notes that Sky News mentions “genocide” just 12 times across the entire dataset, the BBC 15 times, and the Guardian 21 times.

NewsCord founder Nima Akram said: “The data in this report is not opinion, it’s the result of a systematic classification of thousands of article excerpts covering the same events, in an attempt to measure overall bias in three years of reporting on this long, bloody genocide.

“What it reveals is consistent and measurable.

“These aren’t isolated events, they’re structural patterns which shape how millions of readers understand Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ultimately whose suffering deserves attention.”

Palestine Solidarity Campaign deputy director Peter Leary said that the report “adds to the overwhelming body of evidence that clearly shows the systemic and long-term anti-Palestinian bias across the mainstream media.”

He said: “We know that this bias serves to cover up and legitimise Israel’s ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people including genocide.

“It’s vital that we continue to hold the media to account, as one of the principal pillars propping up Britain’s complicity in Israel’s atrocities.”

NewsCord has called on the platforms to publicly review their Gaza coverage, correct documented imbalances, disclose editorial practices and commit to ongoing self-auditing.

In the BBC’s case, the group urges the broadcaster to publish these metrics regularly as a publicly funded broadcaster.

The BBC, Sky and the Guardian were approached for comment.