State Broadcaster BBC Coming Under Pressure For Refusing to Call Hamas ‘Terrorists’

Breitbart ^ | October 11 2023 | OLIVER JJ LANE

[knighthawk]

Conservative lawmakers are calling out the country’s own state broadcaster, the BBC, for sticking to its legacy guidelines to not call attacks on Israel terrorism, despite recent developments.

The BBC has resisted calls to identify Hamas as a terrorist organisation in the wake of Saturday’s assault killed at least 1,000 Israelis and injured many more, sticking so far to its legacy terms like “militants”, “fighters” despite the major step-change in levels of Hamas violence. Individual BBC reports have featured the word “terrorist”, but apparently only where directly quoting the remarks of others.

A BBC article published on Tuesday titled “What is Hamas”, for instance, answers by calling them a “Palestinian militant group”.

[BenLurkin]

[marcusmaximus]

Tucker Carlson refuses to call them “terrorists” too.

[reasonisfaith]

The terrorist leaders should not be allowed to get away with these atrocities. Hamas operates only because the cabal facilitates them.

It would be stupid to miss this point.

[BBQToadRibs2]

When you have a world wide audience and want to keep a world wide audience, you are very selective in language. Moral cowardice keeps the money rolling in.

[Babsig]

They are an elected government. Not just random terrorists. Now they found an Isis flag in Kibbutz. I’m surprised MSM are calling them terrorists because that’s usually a word not spoken about Muslims.

[HighSierra5]

He needs to be horse whipped.

[Living Free in NH]

Tucker Carlson refuses to call them “terrorists” too.

What's he calling them?

[marcusmaximus]

“Criminals”.

[Living Free in NH]

“Criminals”

That really sucks.

[gibsonguy]

don’t bother to respond to trolls, its a waste of time.

[EinNYC]

The British have been antisemites since the 11th century. One notable example is the massacre of 150 Jews in the British city of York in 1190. As the Crusaders were about to leave. for the Middle East (where they killed Jews as well as muzzlimes), the people of York were caught up in a "religious" fervor. They drove the city's Jews into a structure called Clifford's Tower and locked them in. They demanded they convert. Rather than convert, the Jews committed suicide, each man killing his family, rather than convert. The town then set the tower on fire, killing any remaining Jews.

Therefore I am not surprised at this.

[minnesota_bound]

The BBC is still not sure what to call killing millions of Jews in WW2.