Comments on: BBC slams “racist” Jewish settlers on West Bank while continuing to censor Arab and Palestinian anti-Semitism

By: Peter Burman

Peter Burman — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:15:52 +0000

Thank you for your support of Israel. The level of hypocricy and outright hatred for Israel in Britain is frightening. Thank you for confronting that with truth and facts.

By: Shlomo USA

Shlomo USA — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:11:57 +0000

Robin, the bloggers here, and other British critics of the BBC’s Middle East coverage perform a valuable service. The BBC still enjoys considerable prestige abroad, well-deserved for its cultural exports. But, unfortunately, here in New York, anglophiles may get all their Middle East news and views from the Beeb (yes, we can see BBC World on public TV), the Economist, and the Financial Times. Of the major American pro-Israel organizations, only Camera.Org is paying serious attention to the BBC’s game.

By: Snigger

Snigger — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:28:33 +0000

Teddy Bear/Khartoumi, you SEEM to be a reformed character but many of us are not fooled.

By: Clap Hammer

Clap Hammer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:32:26 +0000

Pamela said: The sad thing is that the beeb used to have a reputation for telling the truth. Whatever happened to that organisation?

It is sad. The only thing that I can trust them with now are some documentaries about nature and even then, I wonder if there is some subtle agenda that they are pushing there trying to manipulate me.

By: Proud Zionist

Proud Zionist — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:28:58 +0000

Turns out there was no Hebrew writing on the gravestones, and B’tselem admitted the photos used in the media were “misleading”. Did the BBC report this followup?
Everyone please email the BBC these links and ask them to report the updated story.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/179089?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135650?

By: Pamela Monks

Pamela Monks — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:29:11 +0000

This is about the level of reporting that I’ve come to expect from the DBC (Dhimmi Broadcasting Corporation). As J Isaacs says, their anti-Israeli bias goes back for decades. I’ve noticed it myself as far back as the Yom Kippur war in 1973.
The sad thing is that the beeb used to have a reputation for telling the truth. Whatever happened to that organisation?

By: Adam B.

Adam B. — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:15:48 +0000

The BBC stinks. Is it not time to ask whether this organization is now pumping out blatant antisemitism?

By: J. Isaacs

J. Isaacs — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:09:47 +0000

The BBC has been regularly pumping out this kind of malicious agitprop about Israel since before the Six Day War in 1967. This period of near-monopoly is sufficiently long to inculcate two generations with anti-Israel sentiments. But the BBC’s problem is that we now have the internet and blogs like yours, Robin, breaking the mainsteam media’s control on the widespread dissemination of information.

Inquiring minds can now freely learn of the BBC’s perfidy in its broadcasts on Israel. The internet has shown this tearcherous bias to the world and especially the Americans, whose views matter in the peace process in a way that Britons’ views increasingly do not. Thus, one only has to read your incisive blog or Tom Gross’s middle east dispatch archive to see the BBC’s propagandising dismissed for what it is.

Egyptian Copts have just demonstrated in the streets against the BBC’s biased coverage of the murders of their co-religionists outside Church. Unfortunate licence fee payers like me can now make our views of this coerced television tax known to our Members of Parliament and felt by Jonathan Ross among others, by demanding the repeal of the BBC charter. Moreover, the internet is the tool with which to do it.

By: eddie

eddie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:43:23 +0000

I think that this sort of blatant bias must come from a BBC that has amongst its news staff people from cultures that are not compatible with the normal British sense of balance.

By: Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:46:00 +0000

A minor incident of hooliganism, that if it happened in this country would probably go unreported by the MSM, yet because the implication is that Israelis were responsible the BBC is happy to not only report it, but put it on the main Middle East headline news page. The Daily Mail felt this story was worthy of covering Saudi girl, 13, sentenced to 90 lashes after she took a mobile phone to school, but of course you won't find any mention of it on the BBC. When it comes to militant or extreme Islam, much goes unreported by them, as can easily be confirmed by going to Jihad Watch. This clearly shows the blatant and insidious bias of this weasel cowardly corrupt corporation