BBC Middle East editor sues Owen Jones for libel at High Court over Gaza article

Jones said he looked forward to “vigorously defending my reporting”.

The article said that the BBC was facing an “internal revolt over its reporting” of the conflict. File Picture: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

An article by journalist Owen Jones about the BBC coverage of the conflict in Gaza has caused the corporation’s Middle East editor to receive death threats, documents in a UK high court libel claim allege.

Raffi Berg, who joined the BBC in 2001 and has been Middle East editor for its news website for 12 years, is suing Jones over an article titled The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza published on the Drop Site website in December last year.