BBC has become extremely cowardly in many issues in recent years, not just on those touching Palestine. During Samer Issawi's hunger strike BBC's lack of neutrality became very pronounced (he was mentioned off-handedly in two articles during it and his hungerstrike got it's own article only after it ended), and now of course one can look at how BBC tries to tell at little as possible about Edward Snowden's revelations. Fear before power has become collusion.