The Telegraph starts its article on the libel suit against Owen Jones with a hilariously absurd photo of him shouting into a microphone and brandishing a posh fist. It sums him up nicely.

A BBC editor has sued Owen Jones, the journalist, over an article claiming the corporation is biased towards Israel.

The article about coverage of the conflict in Gaza has caused the BBC’s online news editor for the Middle East to receive death threats, documents in a High Court libel claim allege.

Raffi Berg, who joined the BBC in 2001 and has been Middle East editor for its news website for 12 years, is suing Mr Jones over an article titled The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza published on the Drop Site website in December last year.

Mr Jones spoke anonymously to 13 BBC staffers who claimed Mr Berg “plays a key role in a wider BBC culture of ‘systematic Israeli propaganda’”. Mr Berg denied the claims.

The article also said that staff had told Mr Jones that Mr Berg “reshapes everything from headlines, to story text, to images” and “repeatedly seeks to foreground the Israeli military perspective while stripping away Palestinian humanity”.

Did Jones speak anonymously to the 13 staffers or did the staffers speak anonymously to Jones? The first makes no sense so it’s probably the second.

I don’t know anything about Raffi Berg or the BBC Middle East desk, but I have heard and seen a lot from Jones and I’m not an admirer. May the better journalist win.