Many British Jews see BBC as hostile to Israel, community leaders say
Jewish organisations back report that finds corporation has failed to cover Middle East conflict impartially
Many British Jews have come to see the BBC as “institutionally hostile to Israel”, community leaders have said, as they endorsed a report that concluded the broadcaster had failed to cover the Middle East conflict with impartiality.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council and the Community Security Trust, which monitors antisemitism and provides security for Jewish communities in Britain, said the broadcaster had also been defensive in its approach to complaints about the matter.
“Inaccurate media reporting on the conflict contributes to the delegitimisation of Israel in the public sphere, which in turn fuels anti-Jewish hatred, and has made British Jews and Jews around the world less safe and secure in their communities. As a global media leader, the BBC carries extra responsibility in these regards,” they wrote in a letter to the Times.
“This has led many British Jews to conclude that the BBC has become, in practical terms, institutionally hostile to Israel, eroding trust in the institution. At least until recently, the BBC’s response to the Jewish community’s legitimate concerns about its coverage has appeared to vary between defensive and dismissive.”
The organisations were responding to a report authored by the former BBC executive Danny Cohen and the former governor of the BBC Ruth Deech.
The report said: “Whenever the corporation is faced with the choice of whose account or narrative to believe, it seldom points in Israel’s direction. For Hamas in this war, proof is rarely necessary. For the IDF and Israel, proof is rarely enough.”
The authors cited several cases where its authors said the BBC had erred in its reporting or used language that demonstrated an anti-Israel bias.
They wrote: “We recognise that reporting complex stories in a war zone and verifying claims and counter-claims can be difficult, but it is clear there is systematic bias against Israel across all BBC platforms, with the vast majority of that bias pointing in the same direction.
“The seriousness of this failure to deliver content that is consistent with the BBC’s editorial mission and guidelines has fuelled anti-Jewish hate in this country and around the world and has seriously damaged the BBC’s reputation as an impartial provider of news and information.”
The Jewish groups, in their joint statement, said the broadcaster had a duty to “deliver news that is fair, balanced, impartial and, above all, accurate”. They added: “However, this new and authoritative report, which we have read and endorse, provides troubling evidence of repeated and systematic failures by the BBC to meet that duty, in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.”
They backed the authors’ call for an independent inquiry into the BBC’s coverage of the conflict.
A BBC spokesperson said: “The Israel-Gaza conflict is a polarising and difficult story to cover and we understand there are a range of views. The BBC has focused on reporting the conflict impartially, bringing audiences breaking news, insight and analysis, and reflecting all perspectives.
“While we do not recognise the overall characterisation of our journalism in this report, we will of course always look at anything raised with us with care and attention.”
Link to the "report" if you're out of toilet paper.
'The report said: “Whenever the corporation is faced with the choice of whose account or narrative to believe, it seldom points in Israel’s direction. For Hamas in this war, proof is rarely necessary. For the IDF and Israel, proof is rarely enough.” '
1) - the 'according to the Hamas-run health ministry' qualifier 2) - Hamas bases under hospitals 3) - Hamas blew up their own hospital 4) - systematic mass rapes on Oct 7 5) - beheaded babies, babies in ovens 6) - UNWRA full of Hamas terrorists 7) - 'Israel disputes this' 8) - no mention of the Hannibal doctrine
I could go on...
The beeb is relentlessly biased in favour of the genocidal apartheid regime and these lying f*s know it.
It's all part of the game to pretend bias against when it's all bias in favour. I heard a bit of Radio 4 earlier and thought I was at a Nuremberg rally.The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
... hostile to the US, hostile to Britain, hostile to Christianity, and hostile to the white race... Meanwhile, the BBC calls Yaxley-Lennon 'an anti-Islam activist', and uses the proud term 'pro-British' to describe rioting racists trying to immolate foreigners.
Me, I can't imagine that anyone can be so unutterably thick as to imagine that the BBC -- irreducibly an arm of state power -- could muster the level of intellectual and moral independence required to depart meaningfully from the strict pro-Zionist policy line laid down by Washington and Whitehall. 'Hostile to Israel'? They couldn't fucking do it if they tried.
I recall many years ago the Tories similarly creating a big brouhaha claiming the BBC was biased against them when in fact then as likewise with this case the opposite was true.
It is of course a ploy to gain even more leverage over output, but as the privileged consider themselves hard-served by anything other than complete submission or indeed zeal for their cause, they often end up believing their own bullshit. The BBC will of course cave in: just like Corbyn when the very same gameplay was used against him.
"Many Jews ..." - They're right! In their extremist supremacist world, BiBiC is far too humane to
the 'subhuman' Pakestinians, with no tv hosts openly laughing and cheering on mass murder as is 'normal'. Like that 'regular guy' Israeli tv host grinning ear to ear as he joked he "can't sleep without the bombs on Gaza. We need more! more! ..." BBC must be run by Hamas in comparison!
Here he is the grinning genocide-loving bag of shit and all the rest of the ghouls giggling along as he calls for more death and terror....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
If that's breakfast tv cheery chat, then it follows that even Israel-aligned BBC/Fraudian etc are all 'Hamas-run'.
Gideon Levy clip is spot on re the zion mentality: (facebook)
Gideon Levy spells out 3 key 'values' used by Israhellis about themselves: - 'Chosen people, so above international law.' - 'Victims - we're the only ones.' - 'Superior to subhuman Palestinians'
No level of loyalty is enough for those lunatics. In Canada they complain about the Liberal gov’t and the CBC, and I honestly can’t see how much further either of those entities could go in their absolute, steadfast support and promotion of Israel.
on September 30, 2024, 6:16 pm