It’s very difficult to characterize this as an isolated incident of anti-semitism by the BBC considering it’s far from their first incident, and considering further that the BBC has spend 20 years and well over £300,000 keeping the 20,000 word Balen Report into their perceived anti-Israel bias buried.

How can we be expected to believe that there is no anti-semitism at play when the BBC claim that they refuse to call Hamas a terrorist organization because ‘Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn […] We don’t take sides. We don’t use loaded words like “evil” or “cowardly”. We don’t talk about “terrorists”.’ despite the fact they actually do that constantly, and have for decades?

Rajib Karim: The terrorist inside British Airways

Brussels: Epicentre of the terrorist threat in Europe?

Built at a time when IRA terrorist attacks were a constant threat, High Point was built to be bomb-proof

Securing and maintaining reliable funding is the key to moving from fringe radical group to recognised terrorist organisation

Eighteen years after the Brighton bombing, former IRA terrorist, Patrick Magee, has continued to defend his role in the blast

[Lisa] Smith was, however, found not guilty of financing terrorism by sending money to a man for the benefit the terrorist group.

Sudesh Amman: From troubled schoolboy to terrorist

Between 1969 and 2001 over 3,526 people were killed in terrorist violence in the UK. ↑ this one is from BBC Bitesize, educational material the BBC writes for children. I guess editorializing to children doesn’t count as taking sides.

The BBC clearly has no problem naming and shaming terrorism when Jews aren’t the target. This assertion of “Jewish wealth” isn’t only an obvious Elders of Zion appeal, it’s the latest in a long, long line of Isolated Incidents of the BBC suddenly altering its established reporting standards for only the situations where they address the one country in the world full of Jewish people.

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    Just for clarification, in case anyone is in the same situation as me…

    Clicking on that link just takes me to the MSN front-page for some reason… The French version, because I live in France. This article is from The Jerusalem Post and the lead is:

    The BBC’s Spanish-language service released a program claiming that “Jewish wealth and influence” in the United States is the reason behind the United States’ ongoing support for Israel, according to a translation produced by Jewish News on October 20.

    If you speak Spanish you can see the program in question here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G16Mnq93qL0

    Article: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-769435

    Conclusion is that of OP: BBC are in hot water.


    As a Canadian, as much as I like it when news providers stick to their guns, I think the CBC will also probably need to make some updates to the way they use the “T” words in the future.