Posted on 01/25/2005 8:36:05 AM PST by Destro
Last Update: Tuesday, January 25, 2005. 2:33pm (AEDT)
British media blamed for rise in anti-Semitic crimes
The Israeli Government alleges that the reason Britain recorded the steepest rise in anti-Semitic crimes of any country last year is hostile and biased reporting in the British media.
The Guardian newspaper reports that an Israeli Government report has found violent attacks on Jews in Britain had risen by nearly half last year to 77.
The Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism, the Israeli body responsible for the report, has found that France still had the most anti-Semitic violence, with 96 incidents reported.
But it says that the total number of British incidents rose to 304 from 163 a year earlier, when crimes like verbal assaults and desecration of graves are included.
Israeli minister Natan Sharansky is quoted as blaming the British figures on "years of hostile reporting and commentary about Israel in the British press now spilling into the streets".
Mr Sharansky accuses the left-leaning Guardian and the BBC, in particular, of "likening Israel to a Nazi state".
He also criticised The Independent newspaper.
One example highlighted by David Weinberg, a coordinator of the forum and adviser to Mr Sharansky, is the coverage of the Israeli army incursion in the West Bank town of Jenin in 2002.
Mr Weinberg says that the incursion, in which 58 Palestinians - mostly armed men - were killed, had been wrongly described as a "massacre" by some British media.
"You can't brainwash people for four years that Israel is an illegitimate country and that Israelis are like the Nazis and that Israelis are monsters and expect that nothing will happen to Jews," another Sharansky adviser, Tehila Nahalon, was quoted by the Guardian as saying.
The Israeli forum report on anti-Semitism has been released as the world prepares to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where more than 1 million Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis.
- AFP
Must be Putin's fault.
Theyre on the right track. BBC is the Al Jazeera of the west.
What are the bets that 77 out of 77 were of a particular religion?
It should be pointed out that Jews have the samne protection as non-jews under British law and that they are the least targetted of all Religious group.
The "jew-hating Euros" are well on their way to becoming Islamic states. It looks more and more like the U.S. and Israel are on their own in the world.
Europe has conceded to the forces of darkness, as long as they're anti-American that is.
"You can't brainwash people for four years that Israel is an illegitimate country and that Israelis are like the Nazis and that Israelis are monsters and expect that nothing will happen to Jews," another Sharansky adviser, Tehila Nahalon, was quoted by the Guardian as saying.
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BBC is not to blame. The people who did it are. When the BBc put ona programme about Israel they will tend to counter it with one about an Arab state.
I thought that was CNN/CBS/NPR?
If judging only by the media, then we are equally ready to be Islamic, considering what 90% of our media is.
"I thought that was CNN/CBS/NPR?"
Not nearly to the same extent. American networks usually show some objectivity towards Israel, even though they don't show objectivity towards America ironically.
"When the BBc put ona programme about Israel they will tend to counter it with one about an Arab state"
Absolutely not. Their covering of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is completely one-sided. It's impossible to watch one of their reports without getting the feeling that the israelis are the bad guy.
Do you live in England?
The BBC aint great but it is not Al -Jazeera.
Good point.
If you take Muslims away from the mix then I am guessing there would only be a handful of white suprememists left that would do these things.
Limit the Muslim population and we will be fine.
Just wait until the muslim jihad really gets going. These numbers are miniscule in comparison to what's coming.
Tory immigration polisy should stop that.
The BBC is more subtle tha al-Jazeera but it's sentiments... very similar.
This goes Triple for al-Guardian and Unterfuhrer Chris McGeal.
So why does Tom Paulin still work for the BBC and Kilroy-Silk was fired?
Why is the BBC Middle East Section run by an Arabist who used to work for Al Jazeerah?
The BBC is irredeemably anti-Semitic and anti-American.
Anti-semitism is discrimination based on being Jewish.
The BBC supports left wingers in Israel (as well as around the world). They do not like Sharon because he is right wing not because he is Jewish.
They dislike Bush because he is right wing not because he is American.
Bandying around the term anti-semitic serves only to reduce its impact and meaning.
Yes I agree it is possible to denigrate the meaning of anti-Semitism and it is a stupid idea to ‘cry wolf’ where there is no danger. Such is not the case with the BBC which I maintain is both dangerous and anti-Semitic. And I stand with very good company:
“Sometimes the local Palestinians admit their bias. For example, Fayad Abu Shamala, the BBC's Gaza correspondent for the past 10 years, told a Hamas rally on May 6 that "journalists and media organizations [are] waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people." Yet no British paper (apart from the local Anglo-Jewish press) agreed to publicize these remarks. The best the BBC could do in response to requests from Israel that they distance themselves from these remarks, was to issue a statement saying, "Fayad's remarks were made in a private capacity. His reports have always matched the best standards of balance required by the BBC."
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/European_Media_and_Anti-Israel_Bias.asp
"The problem is not that every individual correspondent is biased. Whereas some, such as Orla Guerin, make almost no attempt at balance, others, such as James Reynolds in Jerusalem, do make a genuine effort to be fair. The problem is that the culture that permeates the BBC, a habit of thought that has become engrained throughout the network, allows only one worldview, in which the U.S. and Israel are vilified well beyond any reasoned or justified criticism of anything these states have actually done.
Hiring practices reinforce this. Recently, Ibrahim Helal, editor in chief of the much-criticized al Jazeera TV network was hired by the BBC World Service Trust. The job the BBC wanted him for? To advise on balance in Middle East coverage, and head "media training projects," i.e. to train BBC (and perhaps other journalists) into "understanding the Middle East better."
OCCUPIED WEST BANK OF THE SAHARA?
This culture makes it all but impossible for anyone who thinks differently to gain or hold a job at BBC news. Who at the BBC can name the leader of the Polisario Front, fighting for independence against a 25-year Arab occupation of the Western Sahara (a territory bigger than Britain)? Who at the BBC has done a report about all the Arab settlers that the Moroccan government has been bussing into the area to take the land of the indigenous Saharawi people, since Morocco annexed it 25 years ago?"
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/gross200406181018.asp
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=3439
http://home.comcast.net/~jat.action/BBC_bias.htm
http://www.moriel.org/articles/israel/anti-israel_bias_at_bbc.htm
http://www.betar.co.uk/articles/betar1106232528.php
http://www.icsep.org.il/en/commentary/full/9/
The list is long. Just Google BBC Israel Bias.
There is a new anti-Semitism that goes under the guise of anti-Israel. But the bottom line is when the BBC singles out Israel’s treatment of Palestinians while ignoring much worse atrocities in all of the Muslim and Arab world, that double standard is anti-Semitic. The Israeli Right stands miles above the Arab world in its treatment of human beings. Moral equivalency which equates perpetrators of terrorism with its victims’ response is anti-Semitism. Equating Israeli settlers with Palestinians is anti-Semitism. Even the utter vilification of PM Sharon is anti-Semitism.
The Israeli left itself is often self-hating so supporting them is no defense. Do you excuse the anti-American left from being anti-American? I often call the US left the “hate America first” party. Israel’s left can be similar.
Why is so much attention given to the Palestinians in the press and world at large? Are they the poorest? Worst off? Subject to a genocide as in Sudan? Are they wholly innocent victims? Are they the largest group of sufferers? Why this tremendously inordinate attention?
That very attention found in the UN, in the UK and all of Europe has a reason. The reason is oil. The world is once again happily making the Jews, this time in the form of Israel, its scapegoat for the tyranny and economic woes caused by others. European appeasement is both sickening and dangerous to the world. And the BBC with its worldwide audience is a large contributor.
A smaller, local form of appeasement is the fact that reporting negatively on Palestinians could cause loss of life to the reporter due to Palestinian retribution, or loss of access to “news.” This phenomenon was well-documented by CNN’s admission on its coverage of Iraq before the war where they did not disclose the atrocities of the Saddam regime. Thus reporters exchange safe access for honesty, an ethical deal with the devil, against all journalistic standards.
The Israeli left itself is often self-hating so supporting them is no defense. Do you excuse the anti-American left from being anti-American? I often call the US left the “hate America first” party. Israel’s left can be similar.
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So if you support anyone but the people you choose then you are anti-semitic and anti-american?
I do not buy it.
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