The BBC is a public corporation, supported by the license fees that are mandatory for all people in the UK who watch television, even if they never watch the BBC. The mandatory license fee is now over 160 pounds per year; the assumption has always been that the BBC could be counted on for unbiased coverage, and so deserved this support. But the evidence of systematic anti-Israel bias, on the part of so many of its reporters, as revealed in the recent Asserson Report, fatally vitiates that assumption, and is one more reason why the government, if the BBC refuses to acknowledge the evidence of its anti-Israel bias and to discharge those responsible, should stop paying for its news operation.