We'd have to be very naive to believe that these mistakes were not intentional. As the article pointed out, there was a willful blindness at the BBC. That statement is putting it mildly.
Britain, Canada, Ireland, Australia, these countries have been actively part of the Hamas disinformation campaign throughout the war.
I recall PM Trudeau in Canada saying the Israeli killing of babies must stop.
I hope that the bias at the BBC, proved by Abraham Wyner and others can be replicated in the United States and used to build a case by the FCC not to renew the broadcast networks' operating licenses. In my opinion, with all their political bias, they have long-ceased operating in the public good.
NPR all things considered....not anymore....only hamas propaganda considered. PBS newshour with its stable of reliable anti Zionists as "unbiased" journalist...Nick Schiffrin for one.
ABC Nightly News....Matt Guttman ......also "unbiased" James Longman their Brit, the same.
Thanks to both Carol and ryan for mentioning PBS and NPR! Despite having smaller audiences than the "Big 3", I think these 2 networks bias is even more egregious, considering we partially fund their existence. I hope this administration pulls all funding for them, as well as their licenses.
We cannot afford to be naive - frankly I have been speaking to American Jews about this since the begining. The western countries have been very slick when it comes to hiding the truth about Jew hatred, they have had plenty of years of practice - we are still uncovering distortion /misinformation today about the Shoah as well as Israel and Judah 3000 years ago.
That's for sure. You should also do some research about Christianity. I mentioned the New Testament Book of Acts 15 where the Jewish Church in Jerusalem exempted the Gentile Church from observing the Jewish law. To this day the context of that council, known as the Council of Jerusalem is distorted.
The sad fact is Shoshanna, much of the anti-Semitism is Jewish on Jewish.
The media coverage began at 6:30 AM on October 7, 2023, as Gazans took over an Israeli tank, photojournalist Ali Mahmud who was one of several photojournalists who traveled with the terrorists into Israel covered the attack.
What was he doing on the border with his camera at 6:29 am walking his dog?
Six freelance photographers, who had contributed to Associated Press and Reuters.. were identified as Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, Hatem Ali, Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Yasser Qudih.
It is believed that they were aware of the Hamas terror attack before it took place.
Ali Mahmud, who contributed to the Associated Press and accompanied the Hamas terrorists during the 7 October attack in Israel, won the Team Picture Story of the Year awarded by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, the award is handed out annually by the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in the United States. His photo? The young Shani Louk's body which was paraded around Gaza in the back of a pickup truck.
Several other photographs showing the aftermath of the Hamas terror attack and Israel’s military action in Gaza, mostly taken by AP Photojournalists, have been selected for the award.
Of course the terrorists documented their carnage on body cams as well.
CNN made a point of telling employees to use the term "militants" and not terrorists.
Honest reporting did quiet a bit of research on who did what.
When I tried to bring to the attention of a dear friend the reality of the deaths in Gaza I was subjected to hurtful and abusive shouting rhetoric. If the truth doesn't fit their political agenda - this is what happens
Wonderful essay....thank you so much......Definitely, with all this poisoning "propaganda" the world instead of being conscious about the horrific atrocities of October 7, 2023, the sympathy and compassion goes to the murderers jihadists.......As a result, a global Antisemitism!!!!!.....
The only way we can reach an approximate truth with respect to how the BBC covers news relating to Israel is to compare what occurred in this bit of propaganda passing as a documentary with the findings of the Balen Commission that the BBC spent hundreds of thousands of pounds to keep from public inspection.
The BBC must immediately and unconditionally release the full Balen Report. Given the decades since it was written, any supposed concerns of revealing journalistic practices should be moot.
If, as one may reasonably expect, the findings from that report were both alarming and damning and the BBC did precious little to change the manner in which it reports about Israel, that would go a long way to explain the serial failures in this current scandal.
And for what it’s worth, to suggest the BBC was naive is to let it off the hook. From my side of the pond, it seems the purest of hubris.
I’m not totally surprised. My husband and I visited the UK about two weeks after the October 7 massacre, and I was taken aback by the sympathetic treatment Gazans received by BBC News. Even Sky News. Especially when we were in London.
The sociopathic, psychopathic , pick your pathology, need to find the Jews as conducting criminal behavior on the level of genocide....so that Europe can relieve itself of any lingering responsibility and guilt for conducting actual genocide....add to that America and Canada and Australia and New Zealand ! it's a deep sickness. Add to that the Muslim world's blindness to its role in the Holocaust and dhimmitude.
Excellent info and sources. One point. I'm just an ultra pro-Israel senior citizen living in West Palm, Florida and following everything as much as I can. Now, I might be crazy but it seems to me that 40,000 (or slightly. more) casualties is what Hamas has been reporting for months - maybe a year. This in itself is suspicious, and kind of weird. Anyone else notice this?
I naively assumed that there were significant numbers of Jews who were journalists, and that they would be naturally resistant to the wholesale importation of antisemitic lies in their organisation's stories. What part did I get wrong? Are there no longer significant number of Jews who decide to become journalists? Has the move away from print journalism greatly diminished the influence of the Jews who are there? Are the Jews in journalism themselves hostile to Israel?
I suspect many of the Jews in journalism know they need to go along to get along. They want to keep their jobs, or they leave the field. I also suspect the Jews that gravitate towards working for outlets like AP, UPI, etc. tend to have political leanings that agree with those of the outlet.
You're right on both counts, mostly the latter. I would phrase it more bluntly: the Jews who choose to work for these anti-Israel media outlets are themselves Anti-Semites. Some are OK with being a so called rootless cosmopolitan. None can align with a traditional nation state formulation
You are correct on the final question, hence Yuval Abraham et al. Most of the Jews who work for Western media outlets are themselves anti-Semites. They wouldn't be so candid about it of course. They believe that being anti-Semitic will create a utopia of pluralistic humanity.
And behold the moron @SharKid arrives to demonstrate for us the low IQ of those that swallow and regurgitate the media/Hamas lies. Thanks for the demo @SharKid.
Hilarious. See how deep the stupid and lunacy goes with these ignorant pro-Islamist anti-Palestinian Western poseurs who have swallowed a "truth" that is purely fictional? Their arrogance is inversely proportional to their knowledge. It's hilarious. (Does he/she even realize they prove my point with every nonsense post?)
If we are lucky, this moron thinks Jesus was Palestinian and all Israelis are all "white colonizers" were all parachuted into Israel from Poland in 1948 by the Capitalists. If we are not, this moron also believes October7 was a "false flag operation" and paradoxically that "rape is resistance." LOL.
Why are all Islamists and pro-Islamists such dishonest delusional ignorant low IQ mentally ill poseurs and fantasists? It's a universal law, like gravity.
We'd have to be very naive to believe that these mistakes were not intentional. As the article pointed out, there was a willful blindness at the BBC. That statement is putting it mildly.
Britain, Canada, Ireland, Australia, these countries have been actively part of the Hamas disinformation campaign throughout the war.
I recall PM Trudeau in Canada saying the Israeli killing of babies must stop.
I hope that the bias at the BBC, proved by Abraham Wyner and others can be replicated in the United States and used to build a case by the FCC not to renew the broadcast networks' operating licenses. In my opinion, with all their political bias, they have long-ceased operating in the public good.
Add PBS to the list of biased broadcast networks...
NPR all things considered....not anymore....only hamas propaganda considered. PBS newshour with its stable of reliable anti Zionists as "unbiased" journalist...Nick Schiffrin for one.
ABC Nightly News....Matt Guttman ......also "unbiased" James Longman their Brit, the same.
Thanks to both Carol and ryan for mentioning PBS and NPR! Despite having smaller audiences than the "Big 3", I think these 2 networks bias is even more egregious, considering we partially fund their existence. I hope this administration pulls all funding for them, as well as their licenses.
Amna Nawaz's husband used to work for Al Jazeera...
We cannot afford to be naive - frankly I have been speaking to American Jews about this since the begining. The western countries have been very slick when it comes to hiding the truth about Jew hatred, they have had plenty of years of practice - we are still uncovering distortion /misinformation today about the Shoah as well as Israel and Judah 3000 years ago.
That's for sure. You should also do some research about Christianity. I mentioned the New Testament Book of Acts 15 where the Jewish Church in Jerusalem exempted the Gentile Church from observing the Jewish law. To this day the context of that council, known as the Council of Jerusalem is distorted.
The sad fact is Shoshanna, much of the anti-Semitism is Jewish on Jewish.
The media coverage began at 6:30 AM on October 7, 2023, as Gazans took over an Israeli tank, photojournalist Ali Mahmud who was one of several photojournalists who traveled with the terrorists into Israel covered the attack.
What was he doing on the border with his camera at 6:29 am walking his dog?
Six freelance photographers, who had contributed to Associated Press and Reuters.. were identified as Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, Hatem Ali, Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Yasser Qudih.
It is believed that they were aware of the Hamas terror attack before it took place.
Ali Mahmud, who contributed to the Associated Press and accompanied the Hamas terrorists during the 7 October attack in Israel, won the Team Picture Story of the Year awarded by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, the award is handed out annually by the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in the United States. His photo? The young Shani Louk's body which was paraded around Gaza in the back of a pickup truck.
Several other photographs showing the aftermath of the Hamas terror attack and Israel’s military action in Gaza, mostly taken by AP Photojournalists, have been selected for the award.
Of course the terrorists documented their carnage on body cams as well.
CNN made a point of telling employees to use the term "militants" and not terrorists.
Honest reporting did quiet a bit of research on who did what.
https://www.opindia.com/2024/03/photographer-who-accompanied-hamas-terrorists-during-7-october-attack-wins-prestigious-award/
When I tried to bring to the attention of a dear friend the reality of the deaths in Gaza I was subjected to hurtful and abusive shouting rhetoric. If the truth doesn't fit their political agenda - this is what happens
Wonderful essay....thank you so much......Definitely, with all this poisoning "propaganda" the world instead of being conscious about the horrific atrocities of October 7, 2023, the sympathy and compassion goes to the murderers jihadists.......As a result, a global Antisemitism!!!!!.....
It’s crazy, especially 🇳🇴 NRK News has become a propaganda channel for Hamas. Espen Barth Eide our foreign minister, one of the worst antisemit ever.
Very sad!
The only way we can reach an approximate truth with respect to how the BBC covers news relating to Israel is to compare what occurred in this bit of propaganda passing as a documentary with the findings of the Balen Commission that the BBC spent hundreds of thousands of pounds to keep from public inspection.
The BBC must immediately and unconditionally release the full Balen Report. Given the decades since it was written, any supposed concerns of revealing journalistic practices should be moot.
If, as one may reasonably expect, the findings from that report were both alarming and damning and the BBC did precious little to change the manner in which it reports about Israel, that would go a long way to explain the serial failures in this current scandal.
And for what it’s worth, to suggest the BBC was naive is to let it off the hook. From my side of the pond, it seems the purest of hubris.
I’m not totally surprised. My husband and I visited the UK about two weeks after the October 7 massacre, and I was taken aback by the sympathetic treatment Gazans received by BBC News. Even Sky News. Especially when we were in London.
The sociopathic, psychopathic , pick your pathology, need to find the Jews as conducting criminal behavior on the level of genocide....so that Europe can relieve itself of any lingering responsibility and guilt for conducting actual genocide....add to that America and Canada and Australia and New Zealand ! it's a deep sickness. Add to that the Muslim world's blindness to its role in the Holocaust and dhimmitude.
Excellent info and sources. One point. I'm just an ultra pro-Israel senior citizen living in West Palm, Florida and following everything as much as I can. Now, I might be crazy but it seems to me that 40,000 (or slightly. more) casualties is what Hamas has been reporting for months - maybe a year. This in itself is suspicious, and kind of weird. Anyone else notice this?
I naively assumed that there were significant numbers of Jews who were journalists, and that they would be naturally resistant to the wholesale importation of antisemitic lies in their organisation's stories. What part did I get wrong? Are there no longer significant number of Jews who decide to become journalists? Has the move away from print journalism greatly diminished the influence of the Jews who are there? Are the Jews in journalism themselves hostile to Israel?
I suspect many of the Jews in journalism know they need to go along to get along. They want to keep their jobs, or they leave the field. I also suspect the Jews that gravitate towards working for outlets like AP, UPI, etc. tend to have political leanings that agree with those of the outlet.
You're right on both counts, mostly the latter. I would phrase it more bluntly: the Jews who choose to work for these anti-Israel media outlets are themselves Anti-Semites. Some are OK with being a so called rootless cosmopolitan. None can align with a traditional nation state formulation
You are correct on the final question, hence Yuval Abraham et al. Most of the Jews who work for Western media outlets are themselves anti-Semites. They wouldn't be so candid about it of course. They believe that being anti-Semitic will create a utopia of pluralistic humanity.
https://unwatch.org/legal-actions-worldwide-against-unrwa-for-complicity-with-terrorism/
This is ZioNazi propaganda
And behold the moron @SharKid arrives to demonstrate for us the low IQ of those that swallow and regurgitate the media/Hamas lies. Thanks for the demo @SharKid.
Point to on the doll where Hamas touched you. Because you jerk off to dead Palestinians
Just because you don’t like the truth doesn’t mean you can call reality propaganda, you mindless petulant tool.
Hilarious. See how deep the stupid and lunacy goes with these ignorant pro-Islamist anti-Palestinian Western poseurs who have swallowed a "truth" that is purely fictional? Their arrogance is inversely proportional to their knowledge. It's hilarious. (Does he/she even realize they prove my point with every nonsense post?)
If we are lucky, this moron thinks Jesus was Palestinian and all Israelis are all "white colonizers" were all parachuted into Israel from Poland in 1948 by the Capitalists. If we are not, this moron also believes October7 was a "false flag operation" and paradoxically that "rape is resistance." LOL.
Why are all Islamists and pro-Islamists such dishonest delusional ignorant low IQ mentally ill poseurs and fantasists? It's a universal law, like gravity.
You’re projecting your inadequacy and stupidity and arrogance, you colonizer windowlicker.
The only ones defending rape are you Isn’tRaeli’s
The only rape that happened is by you fascist stormtroopers and crakkkers against Palestinians.
You need a tire iron acquainted with your skull a few hundred times