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Why did the BBC's flagship news bulletin ignore murdered Israelis?
The Jewish Chronicle ^ | April 04, 2022 | Jan Shure

Posted on 04/04/2022 10:30:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway

For thirty years we have had to put up with the BBC's refusal to portray Israel as victims of terror

For those who accuse Jews of being “over-sensitive” – even paranoid – about the BBC’s Israel coverage, here are a couple of questions: Why was there nothing about the series of terror attacks by Palestinians on the BBC’s flagship Six O’Clock News last Wednesday (30 March), some 24 hours after the third and most violent outrage in Bnei Brak when a Palestinian gunman opened fire on Israeli civilians, killing five people?

And how did an early report of the incident end up on the BBC News website under the staggering headline, “Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid”?

Although news junkies would have seen a report of the terror attack on the BBC News Channel, viewers of the main BBC1 news had to wait until 10pm on Wednesday to hear a report of Tuesday’s Bnei Brak terror, as well as details of two earlier – and also unreported – attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the previous few days in Hadera and Be’er Sheva in which six Israelis had died.

For some 30 years I have seethed at the anti-Israel bias at BBC News, such as the endless times when the absence of vital context or the omission of key facts served to put an anti-Israel spin on an action.

And when it comes to Jews, more recently was there was the allegation of “Muslim slurs” last November in the BBC’s reports of the attack on a busload of Jewish kids in Central London.

So one is forced to ask whether the BBC’s failure to include a report of the terror attacks in the main Six O’Clock News is simply the latest example of anti-Israel bias?

Keeping in mind the BBC’s persistent and unrelenting portrayal of Palestinians as victims and Israelis as aggressors, it seemed reasonable to wonder if BBC News was reluctant to broadcast a story that comprehensively disrupted that perception, especially as all three attacks were in “undisputed” Israeli territory, providing very little opportunity to insert a subtext of supposed justification.

Perhaps there was some perfectly innocent explanation for the absence of a report at Six O’Clock. With the Ockenden Review and war in Ukraine, it was a busy news day. And there had, after all, been a report on the BBC News Channel. But every other broadcaster found time to report the terrorist attacks, prominently, extensively and many hours before the BBC.

Yes, there are shootings and violent attacks of all kinds, all the time, across the globe and these are not reported by the BBC. But Israel, for better or worse and for myriad reasons too arcane/complex to explore here, is a key location within a strategic news region. That means expensive news teams and bureaux are permanently based in Israel – including by the BBC – and that a reporter and camera crew can be speedily at the scene of any kind of incident - and that there is an expectation of swift and in-depth coverage when a story “breaks.”

Israel’s importance as a news region means that three attacks by Palestinian terrorists within a few days, with 11 dead, is a story that a broadcaster with the heft and reputation of the BBC should be expected to cover speedily and in-depth – and without the equivocation noted by, among others, Israeli diplomat Ohad Zamet, who asked in a tweet, why it was “so hard” for the BBC to show Palestinians as aggressors and Israelis as victims.

In February CST reported a sharp rise in antisemitic hate crimes and noted that 2021 had seen the highest total of antisemitic incidents ever recorded by them. That, sadly, is in part the result of 30 years of BBC News perpetuating a fake narrative; 30 years of omitting context and key facts; 30 years of rehashing Palestinian press releases. And in 2022, of hesitating to show Israelis as victims in Hadera, Be’er Sheva and Bnei Brak.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Egypt; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bneibrak; egypt; europeanunion; israel; lookwhohatesjews; russia; syria; theturkborisjohnson; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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1 posted on 04/04/2022 10:30:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Because fake news spreads.


2 posted on 04/04/2022 10:32:36 AM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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To: nickcarraway

The Brits hate Jews and Israel.


3 posted on 04/04/2022 10:33:58 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: blackdog

Because knives are still legal in Britain?


4 posted on 04/04/2022 10:37:20 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: nickcarraway

Because England / Great Britain has been islamicized. It’s as simple and awful as that.


5 posted on 04/04/2022 11:01:07 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan ( )
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To: SkyDancer

“The Brits hate Jews and Israel.”

It’s more of a polite upper class disdain; very much a white collar phenomena.

For example, JK Rowlings wrote the character Hermione Granger as Jewish and the entire “mudblood” plot was very much an allusion to treatment of Jews, but her editor deleted the express references and Rowlings has been very coy about it.

There’s only a couple of clues left: parents being dentist (a very Jewish English profession), the hair, and the bookish know-it-all personality.

The only express reference left was a discussion with Hagrid and Harry that she was off to “her holidays” that were distinct from Christmas.

She waited for “Fantastical Beasts” and Americans to have openly Jewish characters, as it’s OK to be American and Jewish (in England) but English and Jewish, not so much.


6 posted on 04/04/2022 11:42:53 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: CaptainPhilFan

“Because England / Great Britain has been islamicized. It’s as simple and awful as that.”

Been that way since Sir Lawrence was buggered by Arabs — and liked it.


7 posted on 04/04/2022 11:43:41 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca

Like what the Brit’s did when they left the former land area called Palestine when it when Israel was reborn.


8 posted on 04/04/2022 11:44:59 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: nickcarraway

Didn’t the BBC portray Hitler in that very positive light back in the 1930s?


9 posted on 04/04/2022 11:48:41 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Jewbacca

“ There’s only a couple of clues left: parents being dentist (a very Jewish English profession), the hair, and the bookish know-it-all personality.”

Dentistry is a jewish profession in England? I never knew that. With the epidemic of English teeth being the envy of heroin addicts everywhere, the jew hatred in England finally makes sense


10 posted on 04/04/2022 12:04:55 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: nickcarraway

BBC is just a front for the Globalist Cult of Hatred and Death.

They report only what furthers the Agenda, same as MSDNC and the rest of America’s FakeStream alphabet media.

Making hatred of Jews fashionable and hip. Enabling the next Holocaust.

The Great Reset will be televised.

Hail Hydra.


11 posted on 04/04/2022 12:11:19 PM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: nickcarraway

What was the BBC coverage towards the end of WWII when the German death camps were liberated?


12 posted on 04/04/2022 12:15:25 PM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: SkyDancer; Jewbacca
The Brits hate Jews and Israel.

I don't think it's universal. Even in his own party, there was a lot of push back against Corbyn.

Corbyn succeeded Ed Miliband, a Jewish MP, who was the Leader if Labour for 5 years. And his brother was an MP for a long time.

Michael Howard was Leader of the Tories from 2003 - 2005, and he held various ministerial positions under Thatcher and Majors.

There are actually over 20 MPs, and more before that. I think almost all of them are either Conservative or Labor, I don't recall any in LibLab or UKIP. Also, in the House of Lords.

I don't think the BBC's policies reflect all British people.

13 posted on 04/04/2022 12:20:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Quentin Quarantino
I believe George Orwell/Eric Blair said the BBC was Big Brother from 1984.
14 posted on 04/04/2022 12:21:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: CaptainPhilFan

There are too many Mooselimbs that live in England.

Israel is the birth place of the Israelites and the Mooselimbs started in the 7th Century A.D. and Mohammad started this religion in the 7th centrury.

There were no Palestinians in present Israel during the Savior's time.

I have said before that the Mooselimb religion is not a religion at all.

Mohammad perverted this religion.

You can practice polygamy under the Mooselimb religion and many other things are just not right.

Actaully, the Israelis tried to convince Mohammad to joint their religion but Mohammad rejected this religion so he succeeded in perverting this religion as his own.

This is main reason I reject this religion as a religion of God.

15 posted on 04/04/2022 12:26:44 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: nickcarraway

Never. Heard. About. It. Here.


16 posted on 04/04/2022 12:50:06 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nickcarraway

Why? See Tagline.


17 posted on 04/04/2022 1:18:03 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: dsrtsage

Private dentistry; orthodontics, in particular.

Not gumbmint teeth.


18 posted on 04/04/2022 2:12:22 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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19 posted on 04/04/2022 2:43:04 PM PDT by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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20 posted on 04/04/2022 7:47:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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