H/T Craig at is the BBC biased?…
Eric Pickles has written a piece in the Jewish News that takes the BBC to task for its abysmal and dangerously one-sided reporting…he concludes…
Selecting someone for an attack or death on the basis of their religion of race is pure evil. Whether a person is Jewish, Muslim, or Christian, hate crime should receive universal condemnation – but apparently not universal reporting.
No doubt the BBC will seek to rebut these claims about bias, but it would be helpful if they published the much anticipated Balen Report into the impartiality of its reporting of the Israel-Palestinian issue.
Events in the Middle East affect all our lives. We deserve better reporting.
The BBC’s charged reporting from the whole of the Middle East combined with its pro-Islam slant to its reporting on issues in the UK have contributed to growing anti-Semitism, unjust and dangerous attempts to deligitimise Israel and a narrative that feeds the Islamist cause justifying and ‘understanding’ Muslim terrorism and extremism.
Perhaps MP’s like Pickles should drag the BBC before a Parliamentary committee to investigate just how its reporting has aided and abetted this country’s enemies and sought to undermine its allies.
Just why did the BBC spend so much time, effort and money on suppressing the ‘innocuous’ Balen Report?
BBC News kills Jews. Was that its conclusion?
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to hold talks to calm the recent surge of violence.”
First line in BBC story about the orchestrated terror campaign launched by the Palestinians on Jews.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6669/palestinian-terrorists
Palestinian terrorists are not driven by poverty and deprivation, as many (The BBC) have long argued. Instead, they are driven by hatred for Jews — because of what their leaders, media and mosques are telling them.
These young people took advantage of their status as permanent residents of Israel to set out and murder Jews. Their Israeli ID cards allow them to travel freely inside Israel. They were also entitled to the social welfare benefits and free healthcare granted to all Israeli citizens.
Muhannad Halabi wanted to murder Jews because he had been brainwashed by our leaders and media, and was driven by hatred — he was not living in misery and deprivation. The family’s house in the village of Surda, on the outskirts of Ramallah, looks as if it came out of a movie filmed in San Diego.
This conflict is not about Islamic holy sites or Jerusalem.(As the BBC is reporting) Murdering a Jewish couple in front of their four children has nothing to do with the Aqsa Mosque or “occupation.”
For the terrorists, (and the BBC) all Jews are “settlers” and Israel is one big settlement. This is not an intifada — it is just another killing-spree aimed at terrorizing the Jews and forcing them out of this part of the world. It already succeeded in the rest of the Middle East and is now being done there to the Christians as well.
The current wave of terrorism is just another phase in our dream to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. The terrorists and their supporters are not struggling against a checkpoint or a wall. They want to see Israel destroyed, Jews slaughtered, and the streets of Israel running with Jewish blood.
Looking up today’s news on the situation in Israel my eye caught on the following piece, published earlier in the year, on whether Hamas can contain ISIS.
Note the presentation of Hamas as moderate, like the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood, against the more fundamental Salafists.
‘Salafists appeared in Gaza about a decade ago. They adhere to a strict lifestyle based on that of the earliest followers of Islam.
So far, Hamas, which has its ideological roots in the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood, has been largely able to contain them’.
Thank you Hamas, good to know there are moderates out there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-33110099
If Tory politicians want the BBC to be impartial then they will have take strong action to make it so , rather than telling us how good it is , how we all love it, how it increases British influence. It can’t be far away when the PM stands up and tells us that the ‘Our BBC is safe in his hands’!!. Personally I believe that the BBC is way beyond reform but that no politician has the courage to shut it down. The only way forward is to make it a not for profit subscription service and let it slowly wither away to a rump watched only by public sector employees.
Sadly, many of this country’s problems are ‘too big to handle’ by our politicians – the BBC among them but chased hard by immigration, the NHS, welfare reform, education. I’m not sure that the answer to this paralysis, if there is one, isn’t politically rather disturbing.
sorry, there’s only one problem driving all the others. Without the 8 million foreign born immigrants would there be an NHS problem, a welfare reform problem, an education problem (remember Liebore closed many schools due to demographics in the mid 00’s) or for that matter, housing?
Moderate!! Rafah Cleric Brandishes Knife in Friday Sermon, Calls upon Palestinians to Stab Jew. …MEMRI
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/5098.htm.. I do wonder how many moderate Imams/Clerics are in the UK.
The current situation has seen a steady escalation in aggressive rhetoric on social media, including blatant threats of violence against Jews beyond Israel.
Mind you that Simon Sharma who is a Jew, didn’t do a bad job on Thursday night QT, of supporting the issue of immigrants who are of course mostly Muslim, and who as we know would make all Jews there first target for complete wipe out in Europe.
One way the BBC has been skewing the news of all the stabbings and other attacks is by giving misleading statistics – eg “*8 Israelis have died, 35 Palestinians have died”. No context, this is deliberately designed to suggest that Israelis are doing more attacking than the Palestinians.
Out of the Palestinian deaths, I believe 2 or maybe 4 have been caused by Jewish extremists. The rest have been Palestinians killed after they started to stab or otherwise attack people.
The only proper statistic should be “There have been X Palestinians who mounted armed attacks, Y Jewish people mounted attacks”.
Secretary Kerry (It could have written by the BBC and other left wing news media) empowers Palestinian Terrorism
http://tinyurl.com/ozbt33h
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded last week. The experimental discoveries that earned this year’s Nobel Prize were made about 15 years ago. It took a while for the discoveries to be confirmed, and for the community of physicists to realize the consequences. “Waiting for the dust to settle” in physics takes time. In the Middle East, it takes even longer for “political dust” to settle. For Secretary Kerry alas, understanding the consequences seems to be beyond his capacity; his lack of comprehension concerning the changes that have transformed the Middle East and linking the current terror wave afflicting all of Israel to “settlements” only further empowers Palestinian Arab terror.
Kerry’s and the BBC’s myopic depiction of what is transpiring in Israel fits like a glove with the efforts of the Palestinian Arab and Islamic Movement leadership to spin tales about every single stymied Palestinian Arab terrorist in recent days – whether the terrorist was killed to halt the killed spree or disabled in the in the act.
A “massive increase in settlements” built by Israel in recent years has led to the “frustration” and “violence” now stoking its decades-old conflict with the Palestinians, US Secretary of State John Kerry said at Harvard University this past Tuesday night during a question-and-answer session, “and there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing”. So the commonsense conclusion of this kind of reasoning and logic is that Palestinian Arabs who are carrying out the terror attacks against Jews over the past two weeks should be portrayed as victims who are presumably being driven to desperate measures by Israeli policies and should not be held accountable or responsible for incitement and the terror that follows. It would seem that Kerry and the BBC are singing from the same song sheet… Perhaps they are on the same pay role?!!
If I may, events anywhere the BBC is present could benefit from simply being reported.
The BBC cannot even manage that, much less ‘better’.
Their attempts to skew headlines or editorialise propagandist semantics and wordplay or omit what doesn’t suit in censorship are nothing short of risible.
Guest Who – “Their attempts to skew headlines…….nothing short of risible”.
I agree that may well be the case regarding the perception of readers of this blog. However, given that a significant proportion of the UK population has the attention span of a gnat, and reading the headlines takes some so long that they neither read/hear nor comprehend any of the additional information which surrounds the headlines, nor do many of them even care if there is further information, then the effect of torturing the language and facts actually creates an effect.
What really ‘bugs’ me, is that Beeboids appear to work really hard at these contortions, to the extent that it cannot just come from their corrupted mindset – it must actually be seen by them to be part of their job to skew the news. The ‘real’ headlines would almost write themselves – you know, “Palestinian kills two Israelis; then shot dead by authorities”, rather than “Palestinian shot dead after Jerusalem attack kills two” – a headline that doesn’t even make clear that the Palestinian had killed two Israelis. You really have to work at it to come up with the second headline.
We’re paying for these deceptions – BBC – Bias by Obfuscation.
(By the way – am I the only one getting hours to be able to edit posts ? One comment yesterday gave me “228 undefined – minutes, obviously – and 29…28….27 seconds to edit”)
Richard – agree.
What frustrates in complement is that CECUTT has been set-up to pretty much ensure anything like this can be brushed aside in a welter of semantics and beliefs and patronising waffle, because the BBC controls the play and the BBC knows the BBC always gets it about right.
One can only hope that deep down in the conscience or professional integrity of some actual journalists, such deliberate editorial shenanigans will sit uneasily.
Meanwhile outside of their incestuous little bubble, such headlines are easy to see for what they are, and it does not play well at all.
With you on all that richard D. Political duplicity rules.
Palestinians: What will happen to the Israelis when you take back Palestine of 1948 (Israel)?
Such peaceful and tolerant people.
They really do believe that Arabs are native to Palestine. They took it by military conquest in the 7th C and lost it in the same way 450 years later. That’s 450 years out of 5000.
The only people with an unchallenged claim are the the Canaanites, and I don’t think they’re around any more.