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Ron Ruthfield's avatar

A brilliant lexicon of unambiguous moral reasoning. This alphabetical essay is a definite keeper! 🤙

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Susan Sullivan's avatar

This is fantastic! The BBC is funded by the public! It’s disgusting we are expected to pay for this! The BBC is teaching the country to be antisemitic. I despise it.

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Susan Sullivan's avatar

I agree. It has never been as bad. These stupid people who know nothing about the situation behave like maniacs. Most normal Brits do not accept this vile filth.

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Dana Ramos's avatar

England has a long history of teaching antisemitism. A very long history.

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Jonathan Gordon's avatar

As Christoph Waltz says in Inglorious Basterds, “that’s a bingo”.

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Liora Jacob's avatar

Here’s another such list - summary of misleading terms - posted by an anonymous commenter soon after Oct 7:

"occupation": military presence

"Palestinians": Palestinian Arabs

"settlements": Jewish towns

"settlers": Jews living in their own country, on their homeland, on lands explicitly earmarked for Jewish sovereignty (see: League of Nations mandate i.e. international law)

"annexation": to extend Israeli sovereignty over lands to which Israel is the sole legitimate claimant as per int'l law and int'l customary law

"militants","fighters","gunmen": terrorists

"settler extremism": blown out of proportion, literally less incidents per year than in Chicago on a single weekend

"apartheid": makes no sense, totally inapplicable, Area A&B ruled by Arabs, Area C by Israel, it's not racially motivated, it's not in-between citizens of the same country, it's in the middle of a 100 y conflict, which wasn't ever started or escalated by Jews, Arab citizens have equal rights in Israel, just like any other minority citizen

"ethnic cleansing": no such thing committed by Israel ever, including the meme nakba

"genocide": never committed by Israel, the main goal of Israel's enemies (Hamas, PIJ, Fatah, PFLP, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran)

"nakba": Arab failure to exterminate Jews, flight of population as a result of a war they themselves and their brethren started

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ryan's avatar

the last re "nakba" is spot on. Oct 7th....the beginning of extermination of the Jews.

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Ezekiel Detroit's avatar

Absolutely amazing. It uncovers language meant to deceive. It is a textbook of the working of propaganda and vilify a specific group. Unfortunately, that group is the Jews. It exposes a kind of language that is shaping the minds of people who are simple and those who are just learning how to think. It is an attempt to stupefy and cripple the ability to ask questions.

Don’t think this linguistic contortion is limited to antisemitism. We have a “beautiful” bill that will harm the sick and elderly in the US. We have a “beautiful clean coal industry” where miners are getting black lung and pulmonary silicosis while their safety and health care organizations are cut back. We have a decimated and demoralized federal government who are accused of “fraud and abuse” even when 90 percent of this accusation does not exist. And we have a revived and thriving antisemite movement rejuvenated by a language of disparagement and hate coming from the top. Don’t get me started on the massacre of federal health agencies amid claims they have deliberately harmed us for personal gain.

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Miriamnae's avatar

‘ …the UN towel salesman… ‘ what a line.

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Ezekiel Detroit's avatar

Impeccable academic writing. A mechaiyeh!

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Gilda Joffe's avatar

Brilliant, true and will unfortunately never be read or understood by the dismal dummies of this world. But thank you for your unerring surgery in extruding the slimy bile of the BBC vocabulary.

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Jonathan Farber's avatar

Great idea. another brillian column.

Small correction. Under "Alleged" I believe you meant crimes committed against Israel, not by Israel.

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Laura's avatar

All of this aptly describes BBC's (al Jazeera on the Thames) coverage. It is essentially hamas' PR wing as are most western media outlets. They are truly repulsive and have had no accountability for the blood on their hands over the past 21 months. In fact, the BBC should be considered a terrorist organization. Is it possible to sue it for defamation? There needs to be a reckoning for the western media almost all of which have acted as fronts for hamas.

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Marla Ganahl's avatar

Well done!

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Wonderboy's avatar

England has a long and not so honorable tradition of Jew hate put out in the most polite ways. Nothing new here to see. The leadership of the upper classes always had a problem with armed and self determined Jews. They were more comfortable with dead Jews or Jews with no power. Well those days are over. The Israeli's do not need England or the BBC to verify their right to exist .

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ryan's avatar

From Bevin to V. Wolf to former American and Jew Hater T. S. Eliot.....now including V. Regrave....Redgrave's children....annie lennox, tilda swinton, dawnie french...et al.

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ryan's avatar

This is applicable to NY Times/Wash Post/ CNN/ MSNBC

Oct 7th....a day of celebration when Gazans broke the chains of Zionist occupation and blockade and showed they are the legitimate people of Palestine. Soon to be a day on NYC School Calendar. as part of new UFT/NEA "Teach Palestine" ...replacing finally the detested Chris Columbus....crypto Jew of course. A day of reflection on systemic bullying of Arab Children as in NEA broadside. A day to reject as antisemitic all legit criticisim of Israel.

or did you include "legit criticism of Israel"...above....right of young white people to denounce Jewish supremacism....see Peter Beinart, et al.

Rape....a tactic used by Israel to dehumanize Palestinian women. Never used by hamas as it violates the Qu'ran. So impossible...the women were raped by Israel Zionist IDF and dumped in Gaza to false implicate hamas.

Otherwise perfect.

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Susan B Shulman's avatar

Excellent but horrifying definition of terms used by BBC, PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, The NY Slimes, AP, Reuters, Agent France, all other leftist pundits, left leaning Universities and ALL Leftist Governments and politicians.🤬

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