This is why the BBC’s pro-Israel bias is worrying

[Dubious]

DECEMBER 15TH, 2015

OSO SABIO NEWS AND POLITICS

The BBC has been forced to apologise yet again for its biased coverage of the decades-long conflict in Israel and Palestine. And by taking a position of blatant support for the Israeli state, the corporation has shown once more that it cannot be trusted to put Palestinian lives on a par with Israeli’s.

Why has the BBC apologised?

The BBC’s Today programme aims to set “the agenda for the nation’s news every day”, according to James Harding, the BBC’s Director of News. Listeners sympathetic to the Palestinian cause were, therefore, particularly disturbed when a Today broadcast on 19 October saw John Humphrys and Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly imply that all of those who had been killed in that month’s violence had been Israeli – a suggestion that was untrue. According to Amena Saleem at The Electronic Intifada, this performance once again showed the BBC’s

tendency to convey only Israeli fears and perceptions.

In fact, she says:

the BBC’s own internal findings suggest an ingrained unwillingness at the program to challenge Israel’s spokespeople, even when they are telling blatant untruths, or to acknowledge Palestinian fatalities and their suffering under occupation.

This pattern of behaviour is precisely what led to the complaints that forced the apology from the BBC.

Why should we be so worried about the BBC’s pro-Israel bias?

There are countless reasons why the BBC’s failure to present an objective picture of the Israel-Palestine conflict is of concern. Here are just a few:

1. Human rights group B’Tselem has condemned the Israeli state for transforming police officers and armed civilians “into judges and executioners” by allowing them to kill Palestinians suspected of armed attacks without trial. One victim of such extrajudicial executions, a 17-year-old girl called Dania, was murdered by Israeli forces on 25 October in a case that Amnesty International later said was “absolutely unjustified”. Amnesty has called for Israel to bring its “pattern of unlawful killings” to an end.
2. Israel has allegedly been buying oil from Daesh (Isis). In fact, one industry official told al-Araby al-Jadeed that the country had “in one way or another become the main marketer of Daesh oil”.
3. Over 100 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces between October and December, while 19 Israelis were killed in the same period by Palestinians.
4. Palestinian families have claimed Israel has been killing people “in cold blood” in recent weeks. The number of Palestinian children placed in Israeli prisons during this period, meanwhile, has doubled. All of this in a territory where UNICEF has previously spoken of “widespread, systematic and institutionalised” abuse of youths who have been arrested by Israeli security forces.
5. Israeli police beat Palestinian journalists.
6. Israel plants stone throwers among Palestinian protesters.
7. Stabbings are sometimes invented by Israeli forces as cover for murder.

Considering these points, it is no wonder that even Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, has now claimedthat the country is on the “path to becoming [a] failed state” and that the word apartheid correctly describes the current situation. And these comments brought the paper in line with the likes of renowned Jewish scholar Noam Chomsky, who has said that Israeli actions in Palestine are in fact “much worse than apartheid” was in South Africa.

But in the UK, mainstream news sources like the BBC are slow to catch on. Palestinian acts of violence are covered outside of the apartheid context which has given birth to them. According to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian youths “feel desperate” because they “see no solution ahead of them”, but that type of evaluation is seldom seen on the BBC. Only the likes of Al Jazeera have sought to get into the mindset of these youngsters, speaking as it has about “the pressures of a life under occupation” which have driven them to violence.

The British state, meanwhile, even apologised for the recent arrest of an Israeli officer after the intervention of the Israeli foreign ministry. The soldier was questioned about his role in the war crimes committed in Gaza in 2014 – in which 519 children were murdered along with hundreds more civilians.

Defend those who speak out

Because of the unreliable coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the mainstream media, we should support forces that speak out equally against all the crimes committed in the territory.

In July, the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) think tank released a report claiming that many Jews around the world now “doubt that Israel truly wishes to reach a peace settlement with the Palestinians”, while “few believe it is making the necessary effort to achieve one”. They were also said to feel “troubled by the number of civilian casualties” created by Israeli military action. And a year before, dozens of holocaust survivors went a step further, condemning Israel’s destructive attack on Gaza which killed 2,220 Palestinians (most of whom were civilians).

And Jewish criticism of Israeli actions has not stopped there. In May, Israeli group Breaking the Silence released a report which had complied over 100 testimonies from soldiers who has participated in the invasion of 2014. This investigation found that soldiers had been “briefed by their commanders to fire at every person they identified in a combat zone” – regardless of whether or not they were civilians. And because of behaviour like this, even lifelong Zionists have chosen to boycott Israel.

Outrage around the world has now seen the formation of a new international network of Jewish groups, which called in October for justice in Palestine and for an end to Israeli militarism and occupation.

In the UK, meanwhile, the Israel lobby tried its best to stop Jeremy Corbyn being elected as leader of the Labour Party earlier in the year. However, the Islington MP’s principled stance favouring a peaceful settlement to the conflict between Israel and Palestine actually proved to be very popular, and David Cameron’s attempts to label him as a terrorist sympathiser have backfired .

The Canary has been consistent in calling out the mainstream media for failing to criticise Israeli violence. At the same time, we must support the large sections of the Jewish community opposed to the Israeli apartheid system. And we must unmask the ugly propaganda attacks aimed at public figures who demand that the voices of the Palestinian people be heard. Because the BBC and other mainstream media outlets certainly won’t.

This is why the BBC's pro-Israel bias is worrying | The Canary

 

[Indika]

DECEMBER 15TH, 2015

OSO SABIO NEWS AND POLITICS

The BBC has been forced to apologise yet again for its biased coverage of the decades-long conflict in Israel and Palestine. And by taking a position of blatant support for the Israeli state, the corporation has shown once more that it cannot be trusted to put Palestinian lives on a par with Israeli’s.

Why has the BBC apologised?

The BBC’s Today programme aims to set “the agenda for the nation’s news every day”, according to James Harding, the BBC’s Director of News. Listeners sympathetic to the Palestinian cause were, therefore, particularly disturbed when a Today broadcast on 19 October saw John Humphrys and Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly imply that all of those who had been killed in that month’s violence had been Israeli – a suggestion that was untrue. According to Amena Saleem at The Electronic Intifada, this performance once again showed the BBC’s



In fact, she says:



This pattern of behaviour is precisely what led to the complaints that forced the apology from the BBC.

Why should we be so worried about the BBC’s pro-Israel bias?

There are countless reasons why the BBC’s failure to present an objective picture of the Israel-Palestine conflict is of concern. Here are just a few:

1. Human rights group B’Tselem has condemned the Israeli state for transforming police officers and armed civilians “into judges and executioners” by allowing them to kill Palestinians suspected of armed attacks without trial. One victim of such extrajudicial executions, a 17-year-old girl called Dania, was murdered by Israeli forces on 25 October in a case that Amnesty International later said was “absolutely unjustified”. Amnesty has called for Israel to bring its “pattern of unlawful killings” to an end.
2. Israel has allegedly been buying oil from Daesh (Isis). In fact, one industry official told al-Araby al-Jadeed that the country had “in one way or another become the main marketer of Daesh oil”.
3. Over 100 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces between October and December, while 19 Israelis were killed in the same period by Palestinians.
4. Palestinian families have claimed Israel has been killing people “in cold blood” in recent weeks. The number of Palestinian children placed in Israeli prisons during this period, meanwhile, has doubled. All of this in a territory where UNICEF has previously spoken of “widespread, systematic and institutionalised” abuse of youths who have been arrested by Israeli security forces.
5. Israeli police beat Palestinian journalists.
6. Israel plants stone throwers among Palestinian protesters.
7. Stabbings are sometimes invented by Israeli forces as cover for murder.

Considering these points, it is no wonder that even Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, has now claimedthat the country is on the “path to becoming [a] failed state” and that the word apartheid correctly describes the current situation. And these comments brought the paper in line with the likes of renowned Jewish scholar Noam Chomsky, who has said that Israeli actions in Palestine are in fact “much worse than apartheid” was in South Africa.

But in the UK, mainstream news sources like the BBC are slow to catch on. Palestinian acts of violence are covered outside of the apartheid context which has given birth to them. According to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian youths “feel desperate” because they “see no solution ahead of them”, but that type of evaluation is seldom seen on the BBC. Only the likes of Al Jazeera have sought to get into the mindset of these youngsters, speaking as it has about “the pressures of a life under occupation” which have driven them to violence.

The British state, meanwhile, even apologised for the recent arrest of an Israeli officer after the intervention of the Israeli foreign ministry. The soldier was questioned about his role in the war crimes committed in Gaza in 2014 – in which 519 children were murdered along with hundreds more civilians.

Defend those who speak out

Because of the unreliable coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the mainstream media, we should support forces that speak out equally against all the crimes committed in the territory.

In July, the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) think tank released a report claiming that many Jews around the world now “doubt that Israel truly wishes to reach a peace settlement with the Palestinians”, while “few believe it is making the necessary effort to achieve one”. They were also said to feel “troubled by the number of civilian casualties” created by Israeli military action. And a year before, dozens of holocaust survivors went a step further, condemning Israel’s destructive attack on Gaza which killed 2,220 Palestinians (most of whom were civilians).

And Jewish criticism of Israeli actions has not stopped there. In May, Israeli group Breaking the Silence released a report which had complied over 100 testimonies from soldiers who has participated in the invasion of 2014. This investigation found that soldiers had been “briefed by their commanders to fire at every person they identified in a combat zone” – regardless of whether or not they were civilians. And because of behaviour like this, even lifelong Zionists have chosen to boycott Israel.

Outrage around the world has now seen the formation of a new international network of Jewish groups, which called in October for justice in Palestine and for an end to Israeli militarism and occupation.

In the UK, meanwhile, the Israel lobby tried its best to stop Jeremy Corbyn being elected as leader of the Labour Party earlier in the year. However, the Islington MP’s principled stance favouring a peaceful settlement to the conflict between Israel and Palestine actually proved to be very popular, and David Cameron’s attempts to label him as a terrorist sympathiser have backfired .

The Canary has been consistent in calling out the mainstream media for failing to criticise Israeli violence. At the same time, we must support the large sections of the Jewish community opposed to the Israeli apartheid system. And we must unmask the ugly propaganda attacks aimed at public figures who demand that the voices of the Palestinian people be heard. Because the BBC and other mainstream media outlets certainly won’t.

This is why the BBC's pro-Israel bias is worrying | The Canary

BBC stands for biased british corporation an unofficial propaganda machine so whats new in it ?

 

[19887]

If BBC is pro israel-then I have wings.

 

[Bagha]

DECEMBER 15TH, 2015

OSO SABIO NEWS AND POLITICS

The BBC has been forced to apologise yet again for its biased coverage of the decades-long conflict in Israel and Palestine. And by taking a position of blatant support for the Israeli state, the corporation has shown once more that it cannot be trusted to put Palestinian lives on a par with Israeli’s.

Why has the BBC apologised?

The BBC’s Today programme aims to set “the agenda for the nation’s news every day”, according to James Harding, the BBC’s Director of News. Listeners sympathetic to the Palestinian cause were, therefore, particularly disturbed when a Today broadcast on 19 October saw John Humphrys and Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly imply that all of those who had been killed in that month’s violence had been Israeli – a suggestion that was untrue. According to Amena Saleem at The Electronic Intifada, this performance once again showed the BBC’s



In fact, she says:



This pattern of behaviour is precisely what led to the complaints that forced the apology from the BBC.

Why should we be so worried about the BBC’s pro-Israel bias?

There are countless reasons why the BBC’s failure to present an objective picture of the Israel-Palestine conflict is of concern. Here are just a few:

1. Human rights group B’Tselem has condemned the Israeli state for transforming police officers and armed civilians “into judges and executioners” by allowing them to kill Palestinians suspected of armed attacks without trial. One victim of such extrajudicial executions, a 17-year-old girl called Dania, was murdered by Israeli forces on 25 October in a case that Amnesty International later said was “absolutely unjustified”. Amnesty has called for Israel to bring its “pattern of unlawful killings” to an end.
2. Israel has allegedly been buying oil from Daesh (Isis). In fact, one industry official told al-Araby al-Jadeed that the country had “in one way or another become the main marketer of Daesh oil”.
3. Over 100 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces between October and December, while 19 Israelis were killed in the same period by Palestinians.
4. Palestinian families have claimed Israel has been killing people “in cold blood” in recent weeks. The number of Palestinian children placed in Israeli prisons during this period, meanwhile, has doubled. All of this in a territory where UNICEF has previously spoken of “widespread, systematic and institutionalised” abuse of youths who have been arrested by Israeli security forces.
5. Israeli police beat Palestinian journalists.
6. Israel plants stone throwers among Palestinian protesters.
7. Stabbings are sometimes invented by Israeli forces as cover for murder.

Considering these points, it is no wonder that even Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, has now claimedthat the country is on the “path to becoming [a] failed state” and that the word apartheid correctly describes the current situation. And these comments brought the paper in line with the likes of renowned Jewish scholar Noam Chomsky, who has said that Israeli actions in Palestine are in fact “much worse than apartheid” was in South Africa.

But in the UK, mainstream news sources like the BBC are slow to catch on. Palestinian acts of violence are covered outside of the apartheid context which has given birth to them. According to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian youths “feel desperate” because they “see no solution ahead of them”, but that type of evaluation is seldom seen on the BBC. Only the likes of Al Jazeera have sought to get into the mindset of these youngsters, speaking as it has about “the pressures of a life under occupation” which have driven them to violence.

The British state, meanwhile, even apologised for the recent arrest of an Israeli officer after the intervention of the Israeli foreign ministry. The soldier was questioned about his role in the war crimes committed in Gaza in 2014 – in which 519 children were murdered along with hundreds more civilians.

Defend those who speak out

Because of the unreliable coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the mainstream media, we should support forces that speak out equally against all the crimes committed in the territory.

In July, the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) think tank released a report claiming that many Jews around the world now “doubt that Israel truly wishes to reach a peace settlement with the Palestinians”, while “few believe it is making the necessary effort to achieve one”. They were also said to feel “troubled by the number of civilian casualties” created by Israeli military action. And a year before, dozens of holocaust survivors went a step further, condemning Israel’s destructive attack on Gaza which killed 2,220 Palestinians (most of whom were civilians).

And Jewish criticism of Israeli actions has not stopped there. In May, Israeli group Breaking the Silence released a report which had complied over 100 testimonies from soldiers who has participated in the invasion of 2014. This investigation found that soldiers had been “briefed by their commanders to fire at every person they identified in a combat zone” – regardless of whether or not they were civilians. And because of behaviour like this, even lifelong Zionists have chosen to boycott Israel.

Outrage around the world has now seen the formation of a new international network of Jewish groups, which called in October for justice in Palestine and for an end to Israeli militarism and occupation.

In the UK, meanwhile, the Israel lobby tried its best to stop Jeremy Corbyn being elected as leader of the Labour Party earlier in the year. However, the Islington MP’s principled stance favouring a peaceful settlement to the conflict between Israel and Palestine actually proved to be very popular, and David Cameron’s attempts to label him as a terrorist sympathiser have backfired .

The Canary has been consistent in calling out the mainstream media for failing to criticise Israeli violence. At the same time, we must support the large sections of the Jewish community opposed to the Israeli apartheid system. And we must unmask the ugly propaganda attacks aimed at public figures who demand that the voices of the Palestinian people be heard. Because the BBC and other mainstream media outlets certainly won’t.

This is why the BBC's pro-Israel bias is worrying | The Canary

BBC is neither pro Jew nor pro Christian nor pro Muslim nor pro Hindu.
It's pro British, geddit ?
It's propaganda machine of British Government and it spreads propaganda for the British Government.

 

[Zek]

DECEMBER 15TH, 2015

OSO SABIO NEWS AND POLITICS

The BBC has been forced to apologise yet again for its biased coverage of the decades-long conflict in Israel and Palestine. And by taking a position of blatant support for the Israeli state, the corporation has shown once more that it cannot be trusted to put Palestinian lives on a par with Israeli’s.

Why has the BBC apologised?

The BBC’s Today programme aims to set “the agenda for the nation’s news every day”, according to James Harding, the BBC’s Director of News. Listeners sympathetic to the Palestinian cause were, therefore, particularly disturbed when a Today broadcast on 19 October saw John Humphrys and Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly imply that all of those who had been killed in that month’s violence had been Israeli – a suggestion that was untrue. According to Amena Saleem at The Electronic Intifada, this performance once again showed the BBC’s



In fact, she says:



This pattern of behaviour is precisely what led to the complaints that forced the apology from the BBC.

Why should we be so worried about the BBC’s pro-Israel bias?

There are countless reasons why the BBC’s failure to present an objective picture of the Israel-Palestine conflict is of concern. Here are just a few:

1. Human rights group B’Tselem has condemned the Israeli state for transforming police officers and armed civilians “into judges and executioners” by allowing them to kill Palestinians suspected of armed attacks without trial. One victim of such extrajudicial executions, a 17-year-old girl called Dania, was murdered by Israeli forces on 25 October in a case that Amnesty International later said was “absolutely unjustified”. Amnesty has called for Israel to bring its “pattern of unlawful killings” to an end.
2. Israel has allegedly been buying oil from Daesh (Isis). In fact, one industry official told al-Araby al-Jadeed that the country had “in one way or another become the main marketer of Daesh oil”.
3. Over 100 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces between October and December, while 19 Israelis were killed in the same period by Palestinians.
4. Palestinian families have claimed Israel has been killing people “in cold blood” in recent weeks. The number of Palestinian children placed in Israeli prisons during this period, meanwhile, has doubled. All of this in a territory where UNICEF has previously spoken of “widespread, systematic and institutionalised” abuse of youths who have been arrested by Israeli security forces.
5. Israeli police beat Palestinian journalists.
6. Israel plants stone throwers among Palestinian protesters.
7. Stabbings are sometimes invented by Israeli forces as cover for murder.

Considering these points, it is no wonder that even Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, has now claimedthat the country is on the “path to becoming [a] failed state” and that the word apartheid correctly describes the current situation. And these comments brought the paper in line with the likes of renowned Jewish scholar Noam Chomsky, who has said that Israeli actions in Palestine are in fact “much worse than apartheid” was in South Africa.

But in the UK, mainstream news sources like the BBC are slow to catch on. Palestinian acts of violence are covered outside of the apartheid context which has given birth to them. According to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian youths “feel desperate” because they “see no solution ahead of them”, but that type of evaluation is seldom seen on the BBC. Only the likes of Al Jazeera have sought to get into the mindset of these youngsters, speaking as it has about “the pressures of a life under occupation” which have driven them to violence.

The British state, meanwhile, even apologised for the recent arrest of an Israeli officer after the intervention of the Israeli foreign ministry. The soldier was questioned about his role in the war crimes committed in Gaza in 2014 – in which 519 children were murdered along with hundreds more civilians.

Defend those who speak out

Because of the unreliable coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the mainstream media, we should support forces that speak out equally against all the crimes committed in the territory.

In July, the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) think tank released a report claiming that many Jews around the world now “doubt that Israel truly wishes to reach a peace settlement with the Palestinians”, while “few believe it is making the necessary effort to achieve one”. They were also said to feel “troubled by the number of civilian casualties” created by Israeli military action. And a year before, dozens of holocaust survivors went a step further, condemning Israel’s destructive attack on Gaza which killed 2,220 Palestinians (most of whom were civilians).

And Jewish criticism of Israeli actions has not stopped there. In May, Israeli group Breaking the Silence released a report which had complied over 100 testimonies from soldiers who has participated in the invasion of 2014. This investigation found that soldiers had been “briefed by their commanders to fire at every person they identified in a combat zone” – regardless of whether or not they were civilians. And because of behaviour like this, even lifelong Zionists have chosen to boycott Israel.

Outrage around the world has now seen the formation of a new international network of Jewish groups, which called in October for justice in Palestine and for an end to Israeli militarism and occupation.

In the UK, meanwhile, the Israel lobby tried its best to stop Jeremy Corbyn being elected as leader of the Labour Party earlier in the year. However, the Islington MP’s principled stance favouring a peaceful settlement to the conflict between Israel and Palestine actually proved to be very popular, and David Cameron’s attempts to label him as a terrorist sympathiser have backfired .

The Canary has been consistent in calling out the mainstream media for failing to criticise Israeli violence. At the same time, we must support the large sections of the Jewish community opposed to the Israeli apartheid system. And we must unmask the ugly propaganda attacks aimed at public figures who demand that the voices of the Palestinian people be heard. Because the BBC and other mainstream media outlets certainly won’t.

This is why the BBC's pro-Israel bias is worrying | The Canary

LOLED, So Israelies shouldn't be able to defend against knife attacks and terrorist attacks?
Let's take a scenario, someone comes toward u with a knife and u got a gun, u got couple of options:
A) let him stab u.
B) run and then he'll stab other people.
C) shoot this person.
Now most sane people will find that defending urself is the right choise, but not when it comes to palestinians and Israelies?
Israelies got the right to think what they want and comment on Israeli actions, unlike middle eastern countries, and u post only what suits u.
Abbas calls those who commit terror actions against Israeli civilians Heroes and contribute money and fame to their "contribution" to the palestinian society, so as an Israeli I don't care what ever he sais.
As for BBC, clearly takes the path of anti Israeli news media.
Here's some headline in BBC
"Palestinian shoot dead after Jerusalem attack kills two"
What they didn't mention in the headline is the attacker is the palestinian, he attacked those people, and then shoot dead by police.
those bias headlines find themselves every day to the international society.
If BBC would coverage the french terror attack the same it'd look like that.

 

[PurpleButcher]

This sums up the bias.

 

[Post Colonnial]

The 7 reasons cited in OP are mostly if not fully plain bullcrap. Israel has to defend itself and no country can tolerate constant attacks in the form of rockets fired. The PLO and Hamas has used terrorist tactics and Islam to hide its greed and hatred. They have a huge population of muslims erroneously believing that Israel is occupying alien land and conveniently manage to forget history.

In the bargain innocent palestinians suffer. It is the PLO, Hamas and the islamic world that supports these organizations that have palestinian blood in their hands. Not Israel.

 

[Kaniska]

Guys who do not like BBC, watch something which you like..Go for any Muslim channels and get yourself happy by getting the news which you will like it...They are ultimately Gov mouthpieces.They follow Gov instruction..If we have option to ignore, then just do it..

Any way, i do not watch BBC...I find it very slow and boaring...Al Jazeera is one of the few channels i like to see apart from CNN..

 

[Indika]

Guys who do not like BBC, watch something which you like..Go for any Muslim channels and get yourself happy by getting the news which you will like it...They are ultimately Gov mouthpieces.They follow Gov instruction..If we have option to ignore, then just do it..

Any way, i do not watch BBC...I find it very slow and boaring...Al Jazeera is one of the few channels i like to see apart from CNN..

Its the same case every where, ppl need to apply their brains to separate grain from the chaff.

 

[Steve781]

BBC pro Israel? That's a good one

 

[VCheng]

Its the same case every where, ppl need to apply their brains to separate grain from the chaff.

Or they could just change the channel to RT or Al-Jazeera or whatever. Click! Done.

 

[Steve781]

Or they could just change the channel to RT or Al-Jazeera or whatever. Click! Done.

I have many problems with the BBC but it is an editorially independent organisation. To compare it to Al Jazeera or RT or PressTV is nonsense.

 

[VCheng]

I have many problems with the BBC but it is an editorially independent organisation. To compare it to Al Jazeera or RT or PressTV is nonsense.

My point is that BBC is fine as it is. Anyone who does not like it can go elsewhere for their news.

 

[mike2000 is back]

BBC pro Israel? That's a good one

THESE PEOPLE SEEM TO BE EITHER NAIVE OR DUMB WITH ALL DUE RESPECT. BBC pro srael?
This is the first time i have heard this.

Who cares anyway? Israel has the right to defend itself from radical Islamic extremists terrorist groups who don't spare any civilians for their 'cause'. PERIOD.

 

[UKBengali]

Jewish state is morally wrong and will never be legitimate.