Spot what’s missing from this report about Nicolas Anelka making what is reported to be a re-invention of the Nazi salute:
Nicolas Anelka: West Brom striker ‘surprised by celebration criticism’
Anelka converted to Islam in 2004. It’s not in the BBC report.
Why would the BBC not report that?
What was it that Mehdi Hasan said? The Muslim community’s dirty little secret…… Anti-Semitism.
Can’t imagine the BBC being so coy if it was a ‘Rightwing’ footballer….will the BBC get around to asking Anelka if he has, er, ‘Fascist’ beliefs?
Paolo Di Canio, Sunderland and Italian fascism
How about….Anelka, West Brom and Muslim Anti-Semitism? No?
The BBC reports that French comedian Dieudonne, who invented the ‘salute’, has threatened to sue the groups for calling it a Nazi salute. He calls it “la quenelle” – a word for a fish dumpling – and says it stands for his anti-Zionist and anti-establishment views, rather than anti-Semitism.
What the BBC doesn’t bother with is examining those claims of ‘innocent’ anti-Zionism……
Controversial French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala is facing a ban by French authorities, who say he has gone “too far” in promoting anti-Semitism and holocaust denial.
Dieudonné has a long history of anti-Semitic comments and performances – from branding “the Jews” as “a sect, a fraud”, and referring to Holocaust commemorations as “memorial pornography”; to appearing on stage dressed as a hareidi Jew making a Nazi salute. He has also popularized the “quenelle” gesture – sometimes referred to as a “reverse Nazi salute” – which consists of a lowered straight arm salute with the other arm folded across the shoulder.
Although his supporters say it is merely “anti-establishment”, it is frequently used by French anti-Semites, many of whom photograph themselves making the “modified” Nazi salute in front of Jewish establishments, holocaust memorial sites and even with unsuspecting Jewish passersby.
Dieudonné of course falls into a category the BBC has itself long exploited to pass off political comment and propaganda as mere ‘comedy’ or satire and therefore does not have the same restrictions or standards of taste applied as would be for news or current affairs programmes.
By coincidence, and perhaps ironically as Labour is the main beneficiary of BBC ‘satire’, Labour’s David Blunkett, in the Times, has commented on this very subject recently:
Blunkett calls for new rules on TV satire of politicians (The Times)
David Blunkett has suggested that comedy shows such as Mock The Week and Have I Got News For You should be reclassified as current affairs programmes in order to face tougher scrutiny from libel lawyers.The former Home Secretary said that the line between what is considered comedy and what is targeted abuse towards politicians has become blurred and may now require tougher regulation.Mr Blunkett said: “The protection that broadcasters in particular have is ‘Well, everybody knows this is comedy don’t they?’ So it’s not libellous, it’s not dangerous in the sense that it’s targeted and therefore vicious towards an individual. And I think we need to watch that.”The Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough told the Radio 4 documentary, When Comedy and Politics Collide:
“Sometimes actually it isn’t comedy, it’s comment and current affairs in the middle of what is supposed to be a comedy programme. There’s a bit more of that going on at the moment.”
What Beeboids omit:-
“France may ban French comic’s show for ‘anti-Semitism’”
http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/france-may-ban-french-comics-show-for.html
“It was just a dedication to my friend: West Brom striker Anelka defends himself after alleged anti-Semitic celebration”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2530377/West-Brom-coach-Downing-claims-Anelka-paying-homage-comedian-controversial-celebration.html#ixzz2oo7sTJz8
Anelka happens to be a convert to Islam.
He’s always been an easily-led pillock who doesn’t know what’s in his real best interests.
(Disclaimer: Gooner.)
He looks like a rat, and has played for almost every team I hate.
(Disclaimer: United fan)
Converted to Islam whilst at Muslim owned Manchester City….the true evil of world football.
Cher petit Nicolas left City well before the sheikhs took over. It’s more likely his move to Fenerbahçe provided the necessary catalyst.
He converted in 2004, whilst at City….they have always been evil….just more so now 😉
I blame Franny Lee, and his left handed bog rolls.
I have absolutely no idea what your last sentence means. Except the bit blaming that rotund, diving shortarse for anything you like to, which is fair enough.
After retiring from football, Lee entered business, the success of his paper recycling business (in fact exclusively involved in toilet rolls)
(The fat little fecker also used to live at the top of my street (well, lane) in Atherton, swanning round town in his sky blue rolls….ironic really, bog rolls, blue rolls…city, shite…ect)
Maybe he ll be signing on to Taliban FC next
All he’ll have to do is stamp the star of David on
The decapitated foreheads before the kick off
Easily led braindeads a particular trait of a certain genocidal ideology we could mention
Interesting that the Mail states the rising violence against Jews in France as fact, while the BBC makes it out merely to be something Jews “say”.
The BBC has a history of downplaying or ignoring the growing vandalism and violence Jews are experiencing in Europe, including in France. It’s partially because their commitment to the cult of multiculturalism makes them avoid pointing out that the problem is coming mostly from Muslims and not from Le Pen’s crowd. Hence the editorial decision that mentioning Anelka’s conversion was not relevant to the story. Of course it is, that’s why he’s good friends with the “controversial” comedian.
They can make a big fuss about anti-Semitic gestures in caucasoid Polish and Ukranian football crowds, but when a domestic non-white player does it, well, nothing to see here, move along.
Of course, the BBC has a history of promoting the idea that Israel and Jews are the enemy of Islam. They tried to teach your children that until they got caught and eventually realized they needed to change it.
NO it’s not about a commitment to multiculturalism, it is much more blatant than that.
The left for sometime has becoming more fascist to the extent that the term ‘left wing fascist’ has been coined. Of course most of us know that Fascism has always been left wing but for some deliberate miss naming.
Then there’s the Islamophillia, which allows them to actively support the murder of Jews & Gays and the belief that one group of people are superior to all others.
So invasive is this infection that you even hear Jews and Gays supporting the murder of themselves and their compatriots.
Left wing thinking is truly sick.
With the large number of Jews who have very influential positions working within the BBC, I find your claims quite incredible.
This ‘your’ being? Also an interesting belief to articulate in such a way. Almost as if you are trying to stir things up a bit. But a CECUTT directorship beckons, certainly.
And I find your red herring about “the large number of Jews who have very influential positions working within the BBC” quite incredible.
Your propaganda statement is an oft occurring one, regularly made by left wing, anti-Israeli, antisemitic groups and individuals, viz.:
“Look at all the Jews in the media … ”
“Look at all the Jews in Hollywood … ”
“Look at all the Jews in finance … ”
“Look at all the Jews in worldwide positions of power …”
And so on ad infinitum.
What I find astonishing about such claims is the fact that they have been voiced for hundreds of years by people like you and yet still those “bloody Jews” have not managed to take over the world and seem as far as ever from that supposed goal.
Perhaps they are not “very influential” after all?
There are Jews that only have a superficial identity as Jews and although you may think they are influential , they are not influential as Jews.
Well then, why didn’t he just wear a t-shirt with a message or picture to show his support for his unsavoury chum ? That’s the general way footballers seem to do things. Nope, sorry Nicolas: you’ve always been a thoroughpaced moron whose talent for scoring goals has gained you far greater leeway than you’d otherwise have had, and now it’s finally going to bite you sur la derrière. Still, if you are banned for Brazil 2014 at least your contribution to the French team will be a damned sight more positive than it was in 2010.
“‘Anti-Semitic’ Comedian Faces French Ban”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/175632#.Ur9ETdJdW9Y
““Sometimes actually it isn’t comedy,”
Given a large chunk of the BBC’s output under this banner, possibly ne’er a truer sentence spoken about jest even when they are actually trying for laughs.
And as I rummage through my dwindling box of post-Xmas Celebrations, I wonder if I’ll come across the new Islamic Benedictor one? Soft at the top and nuts inside.
The BBC has a bad habit of hiding behind proxies. They should be careful where such close associations can still drag them.
“Sometimes actually it isn’t comedy”
As luck would have it….. having just chanced on Charlie Brooker 2013 Wipe having a prolonged minutes long full frontal attack on UKIP brought to me by BBC 2 and with scarcely a slutty bongo joke I haven’t already heard…..
I find it hard not to reflect that the line between humour and unelected unaccountable tax payer financed thinly veiled political activists is being increasingly blurred by our state broadcaster.
No worries, come 2015 and a Labour government the BBC will no doubt rein itself in.
And his admission that the lawyers prevent him naming all those BBC “celebrities” who`ve been up before the beak this year on charges of child abuse.
So much for edgy satire eh?…when it comes down to ex-BBC employees, there`ll be no raking over those coals.
Hence the need to spend minutes on Godfrey Bloom( which was as pertinent and as funny as the rest of Charlies arsewipe…viz not!)
Note too the lack of any coverage of Lee Rigby…just a passing mention out of chronological sequence, lest we remind ourselves of May 2013.
Typical Beeb hagiography..Konnie Huq turns out to be the funnier one of the two of `em.
Still-where else could the Beeb put the useless serial pisspot Doug Stanhope?
Brooker is just a less funny walking Guardian paperboy!
From the BBC in 2005 on Paolo Di Canio’s Fascist salute, which got dragged up again a few years back when he took up management of Swindon Town.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4158591.stm
“Elsewhere in the world, “fascist” is a lazy catch-all political insult, but in Italy it still carries a much heavier and more specific charge.”
A bit like ‘Right-Wing’ then ;¬)
Di Canio was find for this. And quite rightly so. It will be interesting to see what happens next with Anelka.
Doubtless the BBC will be interviewing the Kick It Out race hustlers about this 24-7 for the next week, just like they did over the Suarez affair, right?
“Kick it out” is just another Socialist workers party front, as seen in the left hand side column of the UAF website below……
http://uaf.org.uk/
From the Beeb:
Anti-discrimination body Kick It Out said it was in contact with partners in England and France over the Anelka incident and offered support to the Football Association in its inquiries.
Obviously the outcome remains to be seen, but let’s leave jumping to conclusions to the Beeb, eh?
[pedantry on]
Oh, and Alan: it’s ‘Cherchez’
[pedantry off]
And how much ‘contact with partners’ did they need before they pronounced that Suarez should be burned at the stake as a heretic?
If a right-leaning organisation offered such a lukewarm condemnation of bigotry, you coan bet Paxman et al would be giving them the fulll ‘Reallllly?’ treatment in any interviews, but a supposed anti-racist organisation announces that the chien ate their homework and the BBC is happy to report that straight.
“From Dieudonné to Nicolas Anelka: Hands signal new French race row”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/from-dieudonn-to-nicolas-anelka-hands-signal-new-french-race-row-9028420.html
“Dieudonné, 47, and many of his admirers, ranging from the far left to the far right…..”
Bless the dear, dumb Windy: they actually believe there to be some sort of vast chasm between the two.
this is a appalling example of racism and anti semitism, i call for the police to investigate this incident as a hate crime,i call for west bromwich albion to suspend this player forthright,i call for the fa to hold a full no holds inquiry into the anti semitism displayed by this black footballer,i call for all decent football fans to make it clear that anti semitism has no place in the football family and those who display racist and fascist anti semetic views as this football player does must be rooted out of the game of football,this man is a discrace to the good name of football and should be banished from the game for good.
Haven’t heard that racialiser from the Black Footballer’s Association speak out yet – doesn’t he want to defend Monsieur Anelka or something? I’m sure he’d get a sympathetic hearing from the BBC. Maybe he’s too busy organising Black Police Associations, Black Lawyer Associations, Black Newsreaders Associations, Black Weathermens Associations, Black Children’s TV Presenters Associations…
You know what you should do, ring up WBA on a match day and make a bomb threat, enough bomb threats and they will have to take action against the Muslim cunt who thinks it is funny to make a Nazi salute.
As more than an emboldened few of the BBC’s favoured sons and daughters kiss goodbye to any semblance of a plot, this may cause certain senior British clerics a bit of post-Xmas excess indigestion…
https://www.embooks.com/blog/single/a-church-of-hate
I’d be keen to hear any response made, or will it be more along the now familiar trusted established lines of ‘our little secret’ or ‘closed for comment’. Maybe another outbreak of astounding uncuriosity and/or institutional Alzheimer’s?
Where’d that expression ‘reap what you sow’ originate again?
If you’re Muslim, you can do and say anything without so much as a whisper from the Left. It’d be interesting see what would happen if a black homosexual were to publicly criticize the medieval elements that pervade Islam. The convoluted nature of political correctness turns grown men and women into blabbering infants.
It’s probably more a case of so many people agreeing with the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment. For example, consider how many edgy comedians make “jokes” about Israel being evil versus how many make jokes about Hamas having genocide in their Charter and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank saying that any future Palestinian State will be a Jew-free zone, or Iran wanting to wipe Israel off the map? Several versus zero. And you can bet that most BBC employees (and “freelancers”) share the views of the edgy comedians on most issues.
There will be as much outcry about silencing those who speak “truth” about Israel as there is about silencing those who speak “truth” about race or homosexuality or Islam. Only in this case the BBC will be supportive of that outcry instead of causing it.
I imagine not a few Beeboids are quietly cursing the timidity of BBC leadership over not giving more air time to what they see as real criticism of Israel out of fear of being called anti-Semitic. I bet it’s a lot more than are unhappy about the policy of bending over backwards (as per Mark Thompson’s admission) to avoid giving permission for prejudice against Mohammedans.
The sickest thing I have heard all Christmas is the mock “Wall” around St James’ beautiful Wren church in Piccadilly – in the heart of our capital city, weaselly CofE clerics and activists claim to be “impartial” but mount a blatant pro-Palestinian protest. The purpose of the separation walls in the West Bank – including the walls near Bethlehem – are to prevent Palestinian murders of Israelis. Period. The CofE is acting in a despicable manner, just encouraging the terrorists.
Absolutely, John. I find right-on Rev. Lucy Winkett’s stunt particularly disgusting given the ongoing murderous attacks against Christians in Muslim majority states. Has the Thought for the Day darling nothing to say on that, or has she noticed that Israel is the only stste in the region where ethnic cleansing of Christians is not happening?
The Cof E are stuffed…the maggots like Lucy, Giles etc merely feed off the juices of the former Body; and get a little light of the BBC to guide them hellward.
The murder of Alan Greaves last Christmas Eve in Sheffield was the last call…and they flunked it, as per.
I sense that this “Wall” of theirs is to keep the real world out of their Fairtrade sales of biscuits.
Meanwhile Islam waves its shroud…and the Church think it`s for a tie dye in rainbow stripes with a Che Guevara mugshot.
The prophets have long left the buildings…let the Guardian worry about the architectural losses…new wines for new wineskins is literal nowadays.
Anelka only farted in church…Christians died in Nairobi, but Welby…Prince Charles etc got less media inches than Godfrey Bloom.
For now-enjoy the icebound ship…Putin and get the popcorn ready for the coming “fun”!
have you seen this ??
http://www.amostrust.org/shop/index.php?pageNo=746&parent=720
rev lucy is patron of the amos trust – some sort of anti israeli pressure group who are , i kid you not, producing ” a nativity set complete with separation wall depicts that the current situation in Bethlehem. It comes with eleven moveable figures and a palm tree to replace the wall for a more traditional nativity scene. Ideal for churches and campaigners.”
FFS !!!
maybe there are some wooden moveable suicide bombers that can come through into the manger once the wall is removed ??
other patrons of the Trust include Simon Mayo.
who wrote a book about israel with simon jenkins of the grauniad
the same simon jenkins who thinks that ….”There is nothing anyone can do to prevent suicide bombers hitting civilian populations. The slaughter of Christians in Peshawar this weekend showed that wherever crowds gather they are vulnerable to any group with a brainwashed youth and a bomb. It might be sensible to discourage like-minded crowds from gathering in one place, be they co-religionists or party faithful or merely the wealthy.”
and
“The modern urban obsession with celebrity buildings and high-profile events offers too many publicity-rich targets. A World Trade Centre, a Mumbai hotel, a Boston marathon, a Nairobi shopping mall are all enticing to extremists. Defending them is near impossible. Better at least not to create them. A shopping mall not only wipes out shopping streets, it makes a perfect terrorist fortress, near impossible to assault.”
Bombay hotel , thank you , never heard of this “M” place.
See Melanie Phillip’s excellent explanatory article at
https://www.embooks.com/blog/single/a-church-of-hate
Excellent lynette. Thank You.
Re: ….are to prevent Palestinian murders of Israelis. Period…
Lets call a spade a spade…If that is not considered racist!!
Its to prevent Muslims murdering Jews
You are exactly right. There are plenty of Palestinian Muslims within Israel as well as the Jewish population – but it is the Jews who are the target of terrorist attacks,
If the St James’ cleric Lucy Winkett ran a church in Israel she would have nothing to fear from the Jews. But if she ran a church anywhere else in the Middle East she would have plenty to fear from the Muslims. She would need to be pretty careful in East London, for that matter.
It is cant and hypocrisy by the Winkett types that is so typical of the CofE these days. And they get implicit support from the constant feed of BBC bias.
did anelkas conversion to islam turn him into a nazi saluting anti semite,the so called anti fascists have gone quiet over this story.how strange ?
Yes, give Islamic interests, and the political left (inc BBC-NUJ) time, and this anti-semitic report will be turned into an anti-‘Islamophobes’ report.
It is funny that David Blunkett mentions the easily-targeted (and already muffled) satire shows on BBC One and Two (MTW and HIGNFY), without – of course- referring to the vile vitriol dished out frequently regarding anyone of a non-left wing persuasion on Radio 4 by alleged comedians such as Mark Steel, Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy…
I haven’t seen the photo evidence, but does anyone really care if he did give a National Socialist salute? Perhaps it’s just me, but I couldn’t really give a toss and I wonder who else genuinely does. It seems like just another non-event designed to distract attention from anything meaningful and serious.
Always worth not looking at any evidence before commenting of course, but it is interesting what symbolic gestures these days can lead to days or weeks of outrage, calls for incarceration or even jail, and what suddenly finds a free speech, chilled spirit prevailing, if often only temporarily.
Just hope the Nazi re-enactment community does not find itself living in fear of being ignored. There’s a month of Newnight programming stored up for when they get back from school hols, that could all go to waste.
please look at this before you say you “couldn’t really give a toss”
http://k00ls.overblog.com/2013/12/pour-ceux-qui-pr%C3%A9tendent-que-la-quenelle-n-est-pas-un-geste-antis%C3%A9mite.html
what will muslims have to do before you give a toss, blow up a tube train? try to cut someone’s head off in broad daylight ? … oh wait…
The brainiacs showing that the Holocaust didn’t happen by actually travelling to Auschwitz are my favourites.
And cute baby Hitler, of course. Who could resist ? Awwwwww.
Dick (you don’t mind me calling you Dick do you Richard?), I’m sure most don’t really care if you couldn’t give a toss; the point is the difference in treatment and the reporting by the BBC with other similar incidents. With Di Canio there were multiple stories, in depth reports, old news dredged up etc. Here, they can’t even get the reporting right and omit the most obvious and pertinent details…maybe it’s because Anelka is black.
I’m also sure they don’t care that I don’t give a toss, but that’s irrelevant. I was wondering what people in general think or care about the incident in question. In other words, am I alone in not caring? Quite possibly – or then possibly not. The point is how much air time is one zeig heil actually worth? Or for that matter, a series of them as linked to by JimBob. (I’d never seen that hand across the chest thing before, by the way. I imagined an arm straight out in front, but never mind). What do those series of people making tits of themselves prove? And this doesn’t just apply to this incident, it is rather more general. What gets reported, what gets promoted and who decides what we’re fed. As for trying to decapitate people in public, well they could have been Muslims, I suppose. (But then the Brighton bombers could have been Roman Catholics.) My first working assumption (subject to objective contradiction) would be that they were semi-literate, drugged-up guttersnipes with criminal tendencies. This country is now producing those sort of people by the tens of thousands. I actually do care about that, but it seems those selecting what goes into news don’t.
Best wishes,
Dick.
Good reply Dick; I agree entirely with your final three sentences.
Re the Anelka thing; I think a lot of people do care: remember the Terry incident (white/black) the Suarez incident (‘Latin’/black), the Di Canio incident (white fascist), all had days/weeks of coverage. I think lots of people care how these things seem only to work one way.
But this is exactly how it started in Germany.
As someone who was at Upton Park yesterday Anelka’s salute was the least of my worries.
That me and the missus paid about £40 a ticket to watch the appalling shower that currently masquerades as West Ham was much more in the forefront of my mind.
That and the fact that when I got home, Match of the Day informed me that I’d watched a 6 goal thriller, rather than a tepid battle between 2 sides who can’t defend for toffee.
Not looking forward to the derbies with Orient next season, then ? And the exciting move to The Mary Millington Memorial Stadium And Dildo Emporium the season after ? Life’s rich tapestry in all its gory glory unfolding as we speak……..
If we go down we’re going to try to recruit Anelka, give Sam a big pay rise, change our name to West Ham Wanderers and beg Hearn to ground share Brisbane Road!
the bbc insist on describing it is an “allegedly ant semitic gesture”
here is a french blog which shows who, where and why this gesture is being made;-
http://k00ls.overblog.com/2013/12/pour-ceux-qui-pr%C3%A9tendent-que-la-quenelle-n-est-pas-un-geste-antis%C3%A9mite.html
Wake me up when the BBC is so generous about the Confederate Flag, or the Cross of St. George used outside sports events. In those cases, if racists use it, it’s racist, full stop (I’m looking at you, Mark Easton). Remember how the BBC got all upset that Anders Breivik showed a raised fist and the idiot Beeboids went into overdrive to tell everyone how awful it was for him to use a Left-wing gesture?
Anelka: What’s behind “La quenelle” gesture?
Yeah, me neither.
It looks to me that at the moment the BBC are trying to imply that Anelkas salute is a far right statement and make no mention of his Islamic links. Either they are saying that certain factions of Islam are basically far right/Nazi in their outlook (something they would normally howl down with shouts of Islamophobia) or they are trying to deflect attention from Islam by blaming their favourite bogeyman, white supremacist nutjobs. Obfuscation in effect yet again.
That’s pretty sick.
This is getting silly, I am talking about the link above showing various French people doing the gesture at various Jewish related venues. It is sick and obviously I should have looked at the link before my previous post. It is a worrying trend though if the far right nutjobs are getting into bed with Islam.
Well it’s certainly brought a new form of anti-Semitism into the public eye. Before Anelka performed his routine I wasn’t aware what it meant (actually I’d never seen anyone do that salute before. If I didn’t have the internet I may have presumed it was some greeting in the Star Trek universe.)
I think this is a trivial news item but what a contrast in al Beeba coverage between Anelka and Di Canio. Already the Anelka story is dropping off the al Beeba radar and no mention anywhere that he is a Muslim. Di Canio was treated as a major sports story and whipped up by the usual suspects (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21999563)
Usual suspects indeed. I recall Dame Nicky Campbell squealing into the 5 Live mike almost beside himself with excitement to remind us on Di Canio’s appointment to the Sunderland job that he was more Black Shirt than Black Cat.
Now if he had been a Black Panther he would have been a BBC hero.
They had some bloke on 5dead early this morning playing it down.
whoda thought it?
MOTD2 finally got to it halfway through the prog and hurried past like a prim Victorian miss encountering a public orgy. If it’s not Suarez, it’s not news.
Am I too late to ask forgiveness for dumping Lou Reed after the Today-type of toadying after his death?
Only just discovered this….sorry to have doubted you Mr Reed…and may God be looking after you tonight.
Funny it never got a mention in all those tropes of tripe rolled out after his passing.
“You`re gonna reap what you sow”….no mere cliche now eh Lou?
Thaks for the music-sorry I was a bit of a prat about you…the BBC tends to do that to many of us.
Oh dear, I think Anelka is about to become a BBC hero
‘Anelka argued in his tweets that the gesture — in which he thrust his straightened right arm downwards while tapping his bicep with the other hand — was merely “anti-establishment”.’
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/anelka-shocked-goal-celebration-furore-coach-163738053–sow.html
Millionaire entertainer sticking it to the Man : BBC, or what.
If the BBC’s “world class” reporters could actually use the Internet, then they’d be able to find out just how offensive Anelka’s “quenelle salute” actually was…..
Here we go…..Two minutes of searching..
http://k00ls.overblog.com/2013/12/pour-ceux-qui-pr%C3%A9tendent-que-la-quenelle-n-est-pas-un-geste-antis%C3%A9mite.html
One might rather suspect they do know very well, and have spent a large chunk of time trying to avoid going anywhere near such a thing, at least in public.
Anti-establishment eh?
The “rive gauches” lot at the BBC would love that with their black polo necks down on the South Bank.
And that fits the BBCs take on anything, seeing as the Jews still “run the establishment” maan…does the Protocols of Zions Eldest say as much…MEMRI TV had it on the other day, so the likes of Ken and George maybe need another spot on the Beeb to “clarify”.
How come Anelka isn`t seen as a Muslim blowhard who has insulted French Jews in an obvious way?…but Di Canio is a Fascist who was rightly hounded out of his job?
Both right wing are they BBC?…or is being “anti-establishment” the sandbag to bury the Islamic part of this nasty equation.
Well-at least we can forgive Hitler now at the BBC should we want too…he too hated toffs like Von Papen, and was anti-establishment to the core. Didn`t care for the Hindenburg privileged glass ceiling either when it came to the military.
What`s not to like at the BBC then? Apart from Heather Mills Mc Cartney and Julie Bailey that is.
Brave Sir Robins all!
Looks like I was wrong after all. Unlike professional, world-class BBC journalists, I’m not going to delete my previous comment when it turns out I’m wrong. The BBC did whip up a piece explaining the “quenelle” gesture. No surprises for guessing how it turns out.
Who, What, Why: What is the quenelle gesture?
Apparently it’s a misunderstood gesture, and there’s a question as to whether it’s an anti-Semitic gesture or not, as Dieudonné (he’s a gift from God to anti-Israel types at the BBC) has worked with anti-racist groups. And of course anti-Zionism can’t be racist, right, BBC? Even though he does the gesture in front of synagogues?
They get a French expert on far-Right racism who has previously written that Israel’s loyalty oath is a threat to peace in the Middle East. In other words, he already believes that Zionism is racism, and that being anti-Zionist is not racist, but anti-racist. Any doubts about his anti-Israel bona fides are dispelled by his reference to Tel Aviv as Israel’s capitol. It’s in the original, not just something editors threw in or changed.
Don’t worry, BBC audience, it’s just some confused kids expressing their individuality. No judgment passed on those who use the gesture based on the color of their skin, entirely unlike how the BBC judged the Tea Party movement. Nothing to see here, move along. The sanitization of anti-Semitism continues apace at the BBC.
And now pics have appeared of two more French Premiership players doing the thing last month.
Wonder if you can guess what they and Anelka have in common? (Clue: They share this with most of the bods showing their support outside Dieudonné’s show at the weekend).
Precisely, Buggy. Of course, it’s racist to point that out. There won’t be any attempts by the BBC to cast doubts on their claims of innocence, though, because most people at the BBC agree with them in the first place. So in this instance, unlike with the Tea Party movement or UKIP, the BBC will see no racial impetus.
Tony Parker, the NBA recently revealed to have also palled around with Dieudummy and doing that underhanded salute, has apologized for it. It’s not just a quick walk back to appease the media or rich Jewish NBA owners, either. He had already distanced himself from the BBC’s new favorite edgy comedian for, among other things, making a film making fun of the Holocaust.
Parker is French and of similar heritage to Dieudummy. Yet he seems to understand that it’s a negative symbol, while the BBC works to sanitize it. Whom are we supposed to believe, I wonder?