A relatively minor molehill has made into a mountain by the BBC because it casts Israelis in a bad light.
Robin Shepherd sets out the case against the BBC with his usual eloquence. Seen in conjunction with the BBC’s habitual glossing over of anything that might reveal the extent of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism and bigotry, this distortion of priorities typifies the prism through which BBC lviews the world, and chooses to feed to us. It illustrates why this website exists.
“I have remarked many times that the BBC continues to run a profile of Hamas which excludes all reference to the group’s Holocaust denial and its Protocols of Zion style anti-Semitism. Despite vast amounts of evidence of the daily assault on the Jewish people from “moderate” Palestinian leaders such as Mahmoud Abbas, who wrote a doctorate denying the extent of the Holocaust, that too is censored out of the reporting. In my recent book, A State Beyond the Pale I also provide polling evidence showing that negative sentiment about Jews even in “friendly” Arab countries such as Egypt and Jordan runs at 97 and 98 percent respectively. Again, such realities are simply not referred to.
Without being aware of such a fundamental issue it is simply impossible to understand the Israeli point of view, which is presumably why the BBC is so adamant that it will not report on it.”
Now Camera does a thorough fisking of that atrocious Panorama programme :
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=4&x_outlet=12&x_article=1789
It’s remarkable that the BBC is getting away with such gross and blatantly biased propaganda. Isn’t Panorama supposed to be a factual programme?
I hope someone finds a way of penetrating the BBC firewall with a complaint and a demand for some remedial action. But is there anyone in a senior position at the BBC who would listen?
Unfortunately the atmosphere of hostility towards Israel is such that anyone who seeks to do such a thing is automatically marginalised and labelled ‘Jewish Lobby.’
It’s part of the debate-silencing obtacle attached to all things relating to Israel and Jews.
Organisations like Camera, Honest Reporting, etc, and certain individuals become ineffective once they’re seen as pro Israel activists. I suspect that even applies to myself.
Is damage to a few graves really international news? I hardly think so – this is patently scraping the barrel for a story to portray Israeli ‘settlers’ in a bad light.
Muslim/Arab destruction of non-Muslim religious sites is a hallmark of Islam, modern and ancient. In Afghanistan the Taliban destroyed the 6th Century Buddhas of Bamyam. In Northern Cyprus the Turks have destroyed or converted to mosques nearly every church. In ‘Palestine’ the destruction of every synagogue left in Gaza and Joseph’s tomb in Nablus/Shechem, not to mention the damage done in East Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967.
Arabs also damage Muslim graves. Wahabi Sunni elements like the Al-Qaeda who do not favor reverence for shrines and even have unmarked graves. There has been several instances of attacks on Shia holy places.
I’m sorry about the damage if indeed it did happen but frankly the BBC emphasizing this is about as reasonable as focussing on shop-lifting during a rampage by serial killers.
One more to add to the list:
Ezekiel’s shrine has suffered ‘irreversible damage’
Deegee
But to be balanced , you also have to consider the destruction of mosques and muslim shrines in Cyprus by the Greeks and that was even before 1974 ! Two sides to every story !
Quite. Where are the two sides in the cemetary story?