Update: BBC Panel Member Resigns Over Nixed Gaza Appeal

A member of the BBC’s charity advisory panel has resigned over the British state broadcaster’s refusal to air an appeal for donations to aid Palestinian victims of the conflict in the Gaza region, according to Third Sector, a magazine and Web site covering the British nonprofit field.

Niaz Alam, a five-year member of the BBC’s Charity Appeals Advisory Committee, said in his resignation letter that he “strongly believed the BBC had made the wrong decision.” The broadcaster decided last month not to air an appeal for the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Gaza Crisis campaign, saying that to do so could compromise its impartiality.

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