Britain’s media regulator (Great Britain doesn’t have a First Amendment, remember, so the government can punish dishonest, biased journalism. This is not a good thing…) said today it is investigating a BBC documentary about the dire fate of children in Gaza. The BBC removed the program, “Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone,” from its streaming service earlier this year after it was revealed that the 13-year-old narrator, “Abdullah,” is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture.

Oh. Sounds fair and objective to me! The media reports says this information “emerged.” Translation: the BBC was caught. News programs purporting to be factual must not materially mislead the audience in Great Britain, or so they claim. Imagine if the U.S. had such a regulation and enforced it. There would be no broadcast news.

The independent production company that made the program didn’t share the background information regarding the father of the young narrator’s Hamas ties, claims the BBC. Hoyo Films, which produced the documentary, claims it didn’t “intentionally” mislead the BBC. The BBC meanwhile, was wonderfully trusting and incurious—you know, like good journalists are supposed to be. After all, it’s not like anyone is out to vilify Israel as it tries to survive while protecting its citizens from being raped, murdered and kidnapped by terrorists.

The BBC’s director of editorial complaints found no other breaches of editorial guidelines. There was no evidence of “outside interests” affecting the program, it said. Apparently they don’t speak Latin in the U.K.; that this could happen is res ipsa loquitur. Earlier this year, U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy asked why no one at the BBC had lost their job over the program’s airing. It’s a mystery! My guess: those who were responsible were told, “Well, nice try. Be more careful next time.”

A BBC sokesperson had told lawmakers that the network received hundreds of complaints complaining that the documentary was biased against Israel. The very topic is biased: “Think of the children!” is a cheap and manipulative way to reduce a just war to sentiment and emotional bias. Did anyone in the U.S. media publish running totals on how many German civilians and children were perishing during World War II? It’s a rhetorical question.

Of course, many BBC viewers were upset the program’s removal from its streaming service. Directors Ken Loach and Mike Leigh and actor Riz Ahmed were among 500 media figures who signed a letter published by Artists for Palestine UK ; the letter said that pulling the program risked dehumanizing Palestinian voices in the media. In another letter, more than 100 BBC journalists protested the decision not to air another documentary, “Gaza: Medics Under Fire.” The BBC was an “organization that is crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government,” that letter said.

Not too fearful, apparently. Last month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and others condemned the BBC for livestreaming a performance by rap punk duo Bob Vylan (above), who led crowds at Glastonbury Festival in calling for death to the Israeli military.

Boy, some people are so sensitive…