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<article data-history-node-id="431314" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bbc-middle-east-editor-centre-bias-row-said-mossad-made-him-proud" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bbc-middle-east-editor-centre-bias-row-said-mossad-made-him-proud" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">BBC Middle East editor at centre of 'bias' row said Mossad made him 'proud'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/bbc" target="_blank">BBC's&nbsp;</a>online Middle East editor said in 2020 that it was "wonderful" to be in a "circle of trust"&nbsp;with current and former&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/mossad-opposed-israels-strike-doha-washington-post-reports" target="_blank">Mossad&nbsp;</a>agents while writing a book, and that the agency's "fantastic&nbsp;operations" make him "tremendously proud".</p> <p>The comments made by Raffi Berg&nbsp;have surfaced following the revelation last week that he is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/06/raffi-berg-bbc-editor-sues-owen-jones-israel-bias/" target="_blank">suing</a>&nbsp;prominent journalist Owen Jones over an article alleging Berg is biased towards&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>Berg's book&nbsp;<a href="https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/red-sea-spies/" target="_blank"><em>Red Sea Spies</em></a>&nbsp;was published in 2020 and details the 1980s secret Mossad operation to transport thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.</p> <p>Its blurb says it was "written in collaboration with operatives involved in the mission, endorsed as the definitive account and including an afterword from the commander who went on to become the head of the Mossad".</p> <p>In an October 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=a9NxO9jWew4" target="_blank">interview</a>&nbsp;with Vilna Shul, which describes itself as "Boston's Center for Jewish Culture", Berg was asked what he learnt most from writing the book.</p> <p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/bbc" target="_blank">BBC's&nbsp;</a>online Middle East editor said in 2020 that it was "wonderful" to be in a "circle of trust"&nbsp;with current and former&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/mossad-opposed-israels-strike-doha-washington-post-reports" target="_blank">Mossad&nbsp;</a>agents while writing a book, and that the agency's "fantastic&nbsp;operations" make him "tremendously proud".</p> <p>The comments made by Raffi Berg&nbsp;have surfaced following the revelation last week that he is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/06/raffi-berg-bbc-editor-sues-owen-jones-israel-bias/" target="_blank">suing</a>&nbsp;prominent journalist Owen Jones over an article alleging Berg is biased towards&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>Berg's book&nbsp;<a href="https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/red-sea-spies/" target="_blank"><em>Red Sea Spies</em></a>&nbsp;was published in 2020 and details the 1980s secret Mossad operation to transport thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.</p> <p>Its blurb says it was "written in collaboration with operatives involved in the mission, endorsed as the definitive account and including an afterword from the commander who went on to become the head of the Mossad".</p> <p>In an October 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=a9NxO9jWew4" target="_blank">interview</a>&nbsp;with Vilna Shul, which describes itself as "Boston's Center for Jewish Culture", Berg was asked what he learnt most from writing the book.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-middle-east-editor-suing-said-mossad-made-him-proud">BBC Middle East editor at centre of 'bias' row said Mossad made him 'proud'</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A man walks by the entrance to the BBC in London on 10 November (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="1373ed0e-3e4e-458e-b5b3-5a7a3cac7e1f" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_83k726v%20%281%29.jpeg" width="1400" height="788" alt="A man walks by the entrance to the BBC in London on 10 November (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A man walks by the entrance to the BBC in London on 10 November (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); 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