Readers can now find the submission made to the DCMS consultation on the BBC charter by UK Lawyers for Israel at the tag titled ‘2016 BBC Charter Review’ on the menu bar above or here.
COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
What are the chances of the BBC and the rest of the MSM reporting that the IDF have found yet another entrance to a tunnel?
The BBC boasts about its neutrality and impartiality and uses this excuse to explain why they refuse to call Hamas a terrorist organisation – implying that they know better than the UK government and other countries who have designated it a terrorist organisation – although they had no problem about referring to the Manchester Arena bomber and the Muslims who carried out the London bombings on 7th July 2005 as terrorists.
But if it is impartial why do they give only occasional passing reference to the rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli civilian targets which have been a permanent feature since Hamas gained control of Gaza in 2006?
I can’t remember ever hearing about or seeing any coverage of the deaths and destruction caused by these attacks in the past fifteen years whereas the BBC apparently has no problems about broadcasting information provided by Hamas – often through its intermediaries like the Red Cross or some branch of the UN in an attempt to give it some validity – and broadcasting footage provided/supervised/sanctioned/approved by Hamas.
We’ve even seen footage of Jeremy Bowen refusing to criticise his colleague Jon Donnison for his false report on the Al-Ahli Hospital where he suggested that Israel had most likely bombed the hospital and killed 500 patients, or to apologise for this false reporting and correct the record.
And another example of the BBC’s neutrality and impartiality is the way they accept without question every claim made by Hamas but ‘require’ independent verification of everything that Israel claims. A prime example of this was when Israel reported finding weapons in the tunnels under Gaza hospitals and the ‘suggestion’ by the reporter that these did not belong to Hamas but were for the medical staff of the hospital to defend themselves if attacked by Israeli forces.
As far as I’m concerned I’m merely skimming the surface of the BBC’s duplicity in its coverage of the Hamas-Israel War. If you agree – or even disagree – please share far and wide and encourage others to do the same; and feel free to add other examples of the bias of the BBC and other MSM.