A Website called “We Are For Israel” is shocked that the BBC refers to the late Vittorio Arrigoni as a peace campaigner. H/T Daphne Anson.
This may seem like a trivial matter. For one thing, he was, in a way, a peace campaigner, that is if you define peace as a Middle East without Jews.
The BBC may or may not be aware of Mr Arrigoni’s reputation, but to take even the slightest interest in his murder at the hands of Ultra Islamist Salafist terrorists is to know that he was not popular in the pro Israel blogosphere.
Any news outlet that pretends it hasn’t noticed that the interweb has been ablaze with obituaries detailing the exact nature of his ‘peace campaigning’ must be blind.
However, when you take into consideration that Ken O’Keefe, the deranged cartoon baddie who became a spokesman for flotillas was repeatedly invited to disgorge his bile on the BBC, well what can you expect? He was even given a whole Hardtalk. I’m all in favour of giving ridiculous people a platform on Hardtalk – I’m sure Sarah Montague deserves every minute of it – (joke) But giving Ken, or Kenneth as he is respectfully entitled here, the credibility of appearing on what is meant to be a serious vehicle for debate beggars belief.
The whole point is that the BBC has lowered our expectations to such an extent that we have to assume that they have abandoned reason, and we must learn to live with it.
So we have every right to complain when the BBC describes this person as a peace campaigner, but we know that nobody at the BBC will see that there’s anything for us to make a fuss about.
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– like this sort of ‘peaceful’ woman from Gaza?:
Israeli soldiers don’t let a pregnant Palestinian woman pass through a military barricade
George, that clip is a 100% must see.
absolutely
the religion of peace
a piece here,a piece there and another piece on down the road a bit
islamofascist scum
It’s a shocking video, but obviously the soldiers detected something suspicious about that woman. Thanks to them a lot of innocent people were saved.
Dezzie and his like-minded anti-semitic Beeboids ought to be forced to watch that, and then still tell us that it is only the Israelis who are causing all the grief over there.
“Dezzie and his like-minded anti-semitic Beeboids…”
Demon1001; give one single example of me saying something even vaguely anti-semitic or apologise for being a complete f***ing half-wit. The choice is yours.
What is your gripe with the existence of the State of Israel? Why do you want it to be destroyed? Why do you believe that the Jews are the only people who aren’t allowed to have their own country (in the land that they have the strongest historical ties)?
If you don’t agree with any of the above statements then I have slightly misjudged you and apologise, but you do appear to be normally in the whole narrow mindset of Beebland where truth is lies and lies are portrayed as facts. With the Jeremy Bowen Beeboid-mind, Joos are evil and Israel must be destroyed at any cost. As you normally are so in tune with them, and their “thinking” is so narrow and predictable I automatically assumed you thought the same way as them in all subjects. Especially as you have not responded to any of my requests to you to comment on BBC issues.
If you disagree with Bowen then I take back my inclusion of you with the rest of your Beeboid fellow travellers, but my point still remains directed at them. Maybe in future, when I ask you to justify Beeboid positions on Israel and on other issues, you will have the courtesy to reply as promptly as I have done to your foul-mouthed attack.
Well Dezzie, I have given you well over 48 hours to respond to my opening questions. I know you read this regularly, so the fact you feel you are unable to respond to them presumes that; yes, you must be of exactly the same small mindset as the other Beeboids which would make you an anti-semite as stated. I withdraw completely my provisional apology, and that will stay the same unless you reply to my questions, and then it will depend on your justification.
Vittorio Arrigoni
The vast amount of anti-Israel bias at the BBC is intentional. They’ll come out with any amount of nonsense to act innocent. It’s what people of ill-will do.
This Italian gentleman seemed a personable enough chap as things go, but ‘No dogs, no Israelis’? He was as much a ‘peace campaigner’ as Nick Griffin is.
“BBC bias against Israel: a petition to the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP”
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2011/04/bbc-bias-against-israel-petition-to-rt.html
This is the same editorial policy which allows Beeboids to describe the Muslim Brotherhood as “moderate”. At the BBC, the idea that Israel should cease to exist is a moderate, mainstream position.
This is sadly the ultimate tragic outcome for “peace activists”- self loathing liberals who seek ” solidarity” with their oppressed brethren in the “occupied territories”, by actually going out there.
No wonder that it has had hardly any coverage,unlike Rachel Corrie for example. This is exactly the opposite of what the useful dupes of Islam want to hear-hence the BBC and the Guardian etc not saying too much about it. Hard to imagine the luvvies gettin a musical out of it-even if the poor bloke WAS Italian!
These useful dopes are mere sandbags and hostages to those who seek Israels destruction. As kaffir they are expendable and worthy of death as they decide. Their internecine evils are simply played out, and the western patrons and sympathisers are mere halal martyrs to the grander vision of no Jews in their umma!
Not that the students and weekend rebels will ever see that-unless a death like this gets some analysis-and rest assured that we won`t be getting that anytime soon from the BBC and its useful talking heads in the left liberal elite.
A tragic waste of any life-even a misguided or partial one! Still it gets the chattering classes agonising for a day or two!
A quick surf among the blogs will show the Israelis did it (the barstards) is a very popular explanation for the Italian’s murder.
The bloggers that push these sorts of false accusations, including blaming the Jews for 9/11 will deny that they are anti-semitic, just like Dezzie above. However, anti-semitism can be the only explanation for the willful creation and dissemination of these lies.
A new low from Ken O’Keefe.
From 7:58 in:-
‘I want to ask the Jewish people of this world. I want to ask you, does Israel represent you? Is Israel synonymous with Judaism? Because if Israel is synonymous with Judaism, then you as a people are a threat to to every, every ounce of humanity and decency that exists.
I would like to think, and I sure hope, that Judaism is not synonymous with the Israeli state, but it is now a responsibility – as it was for the decent Germans of pre-World War II Nazi Germany – just like the so-called decent Germans who did not speak out and do what they needed to do to prevent the rise of Hitler, it is now on you the Jewish people of the world, to speak up now and condemn all of these acts of racism, of mass murder, that the Israeli state that purports to represent you, to speak out now! You have a special burden!’
That’s a really shocking comment. How can he be attacking Nazi Germany and then don their verbal jackboots in the same sentence. I assume he doesn’t try to back up his dirty, disgusting claim.