ADD YOUR NAME: PSC's Ofcom complaint about Sky News

Help us to hold the British media to account.

Ofcom is Britain's regulator for communication services, including broadcast television. We will be sending the complaint below to Ofcom about Sky News' recent attempt to cover up the racist violence perpetrated by Israeli football fans in Amsterdam.

Use the form below to add your name to our complaint. 

Our complaint:

We write to complain about Sky News' coverage of the violence in Amsterdam before and after the Ajax vs Maccabi Tel Aviv UEFA match. As confirmed by local journalists, Maccabi fans violently attacked people, property and homes, destroyed Palestinian flags, and chanted anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab songs including incitement to genocide.

On 9 November, Sky News published a report that correctly identified the role of Maccabi fans in instigating this racist violence. The report was removed and reuploaded with selective edits which erased crucial context to overwhelmingly portray Maccabi fans as the victims, and presented a false narrative by obscuring the fact that those it showed engaging in disorder were Israeli fans.

These changes were not accidental and can only be interpreted as a deliberate attempt to manipulate the public’s understanding of events. The emergence of evidence of a Sky News Editor discussing the need for media to show the world ‘the best of Israel’ has compounded our concerns.

This is the most egregious example in the British media’s mischaracterisation of events and is indicative of a wider pattern of anti-Palestinian bias that encourages the dehumanisation of Palestinians, normalising violence against them. We demand Ofcom immediately investigates the precise circumstances and wider context which led to the editing of the Sky News report.