Palestine Is Still the Issue is a 2002 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger and directed by Tony Stark, inspired by the book Drinking The Sea at Gaza by Amira Hass.

[1][2] Pilger returns to the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza, where he filmed a documentary with the same title in 1977.

He believes the basic problems are unchanged: a desperate, destitute people whose homeland is illegally occupied by the world's 19th-largest military power.

[3] The next day, under the headline 'Carlton rebukes own chairman for attacking documentary', the Independent published a statement by Carlton's Director of Factual Programmes, Richard Clemmow, and Executive Producer Polly Bide.

"The film went through the normal channels of editorial scrutiny prior to completion and senior executives at both Carlton and the ITV Network Centre approved its transmission.