<p>The BBC has issued an apology for years of improperly responding to complaints of anti-Israel bias by its Arabic network.</p> <p>Complaints about the BBC’s Arabic coverage of Israel and Jewish issues took up to a year to be responded to or were not responded to at all, the&nbsp;<em>Jewish Chronicle</em>&nbsp;reported.</p> <p>The issue came to the forefront after the Gaza conflict in May 2021, with corrections to erroneous reporting delayed for even longer or never published.</p> <p>The BBC issued an apology as support mounts for a parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism at the UK’s national broadcaster.</p> <p>“We apologize for the unacceptable delay and will ensure formal responses are issued as soon as possible,” a BBC spokesperson said.</p> <p>But a Jewish advocacy group was not convinced that the BBC was serious about addressing the problem.</p>