Richard Millett on C4 News

Dear Krishnan,

I was horrified by the appearance of Richard Millett on C4 News on August 1, 2018, an individual well-known to supporters of justice and human rights for Palestinians as a thuggish buffoon who attends our public and parliamentary meetings with the sole purpose of disrupting them.

My personal experience of him was when I was facilitating a private memorial to celebrate the life of a dear friend and Holocaust survivor, Hanna Braun. Millett gate-crashed the event and refused to budge, causing extreme distress, especially to Hanna’s two grieving daughters and her grandson. The proceedings were delayed while he continued filming attendees. Eventually the police were called and he left. His obsession with Jewish supporters of Palestinian human rights continues even after their  death and led him to a disrupt a gathering where friends and family had come to mourn the passing of a loved one.

He often works in concert with Jonathan Hoffman of the Zionist Federation, Hoffman shouting abuse while Millett films the proceedings. I wonder whether Millett was the source of the film clip you have placed on your website featuring Hajo Meier?

Your entire piece was completely unbalanced with a long, rambling contribution from John Mann as well as Millett’s anti-Palestine rant.

Perhaps you are unaware of the Zionist Federation’s association with the English Defence League and other right wing groupings? May I suggest your researchers take more care before presenting you with extremist interviewees whose true credentials are being withheld from your viewers? Hoffman and Millett are supporters of Trump, Bannon and company, and don’t seem to mind that their right wing friends (including DUP MPs) are in alliance with the Christian Zionist Movement, who believe all Jews must ago to Israel, convert – or be killed in order for The Rapture to occur.

As someone who has relied on C4 News in the past for informative, fair reporting from journalists such as Lindsey Hilsum, this awful example of bias has been the low point in your coverage of “Israel-Palestine” – for that is what this is all about, Palestine.