Another Thursday and another episode of ‘The Honourable Woman’.
The acting’s still abysmal, though ‘Julia Walsh’, ‘Shlomo’ and the hang dog ‘Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle’ are fun to watch as they ham it up shamelessly.
The rest of it, including the storyline, so complicated for such a simple tale, is nothing to rush home for.
The whole series is an anti-Israel screed, subtly agitating against the existence of a ‘State of Israel’, promoting instead a one-state solution but there were some nice anti-Semitic touches in this episode that must have played well with some.
We had one character called ‘Yaniv Levi’ described as that ‘horrible, horrible Israeli terrorist’ (there are of course so many of those)….whilst the Palestinian ones were all conflicted and anguished, driven to do ‘horrible things’ by dire circumstances forced upon them by the cruel world.
Levi was made to look as unattractive as possible with copious amounts of body hair, slumping fatly in a track suit with a Star of David made up of rifles that the camera lingered over for some reason whenever he came into shot……some sort of message there?
He was later described as ‘an Israeli attack dog….he always has a price….what Jew doesn’t.’
Good old BBC, feeding the stereotype and making up a few new ones.
And what to make of the Stein group’s logo? Looks remarkably like a rocket launch from Gaza with someone cheering it on. Just a coincidence I’m sure…..it must mean something else entirely……
Have been watching some ‘Jonathan Creek’ recently…has a lot in common with THW….pure hocum….though at least all the actors in ‘Jonathan Creek’ know it is hocum…only a few of the ones in THW seem to have realised they’re in Pantoland.
Some previous thoughts on ‘The Honourable Woman’:
Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
Blick’s tale is a shallow, naive allegory of the Middle East…the father is the old Israel, or rather the Israel that it still is, ‘armed and dangerous’, whilst the daughter, Nessa Stein, that ‘Honourable Woman’, is the new Israel, or rather the ‘one state’ solution where the walls are taken down and there are no barriers any more between the Jews and the Palestinians and everyone lives happily everafter.
Ham And Hamas
The Honourable Woman though has its place in the BBC battle order…..it is a ‘weapon’ of war as much as any gun or bomb…it is a ‘smart bomb’ delivered into thousands, if not millions, of homes around the world bearing not high explosives but a poisonous message….a message delivered by the BBC on behalf of Hamas, Fatah and all those who wish to ‘wipe Israel off the map’.
‘…a message delivered by the BBC on behalf of Hamas, Fatah and all those who wish to ‘wipe Israel off the map’.
And charging people for the ‘priviledge’ of receiving it.
Whether they want it or not.
Meanwhile, Christians in the ME, are being cleansed out, raped and murdered, but apart from some token reporting, nothing to the extent of sympathy that the murderers of Hamas are getting.
It seems that the great British public also knows a turkey when it decides not to see one. The first installment got an audience of 3.21m, the 6th (of 8) last Thursday was down to 1.49m.
Leaving the political positioning out of it, 8 hours is a ridiculously long time to tell this story.
despite Maggie Gyllenhaal’s best efforts to drum up viewers with bare breasts, skimpy underwear & submitting to rough sex
“The pledge” – aired about a year ago(? ) was equally dreadful and equally biased, pure propaganda.
it has been suspected for a long time that the bbc have fastracked trojan horse style alot of muslims into senior positions into the bbc as producers etc hence we seem to be getting this narrative against israel not only in the newsrooms but within that whole organisation,examples of anti israeli tweets by muslim programme makers have been exposed since the start of this conflict in israel with fake apologys that have followed,the bbc stance on this conflict is getting dangerous and is in fact encourging the anti semites and the racists to attack the jewish community under the cover of anti zionism.
Head of religion dept at the BBC – a Muslim!