Anti-Israel rhetoric is part of the BBC’s DNA

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There are numerous sources one can check to verify that antisemitic incidents in the UK are currently at record levels and peak during heightened tensions between Israel and the Palestinians. This pattern of Jew hatred is replicated in the United States and across Europe for Jews unlike any other racial or religious group are subjected to unprecedented hostility simply via a racial, religious connection to a country involved in a conflict.

When Muslims kill Christians in Nigeria as they have been doing for decades, the Muslim population within the UK or within any other nation state are not subjected to an increase in Islamophobia. When Buddhists butcher Rohingya Muslims and Hindus in Burma (Myanmar), no anti Buddhist protests develop on the streets of London, New York or Dublin.

Only when Israel, given saturation, negative media exposure is at odds with the Palestinians, Jews suffer in Europe and the USA.

When news on the Palestinian issue hits the headlines there is a sea change in opinions and direct actions from the Jew hating mob. British Muslims chant ‘death to Jews’ from car convoys driving through London and attack Jewish children on buses. Organized protests with an anti-Jewish State rhetoric are organized by a variety of Muslim, trades unions and left-wing organizations. Muslim MPs spew anti-Jewish State vomit from Parliamentary pulpits. Antisemitism conveniently hides behind the shield of pro Palestinianism.

The Israel, Palestinian phenomenon which exacerbates antisemitism is very well understood by Jews, Muslims, the pseudo intellectual, anti-racist (but truly racist) left and by the media. Indeed, the bias of the media has been responsible for facilitating Jew hatred for decades and the most prominent and obvious facilitator in the UK is undoubtedly the BBC. Perhaps CNN facilitates a similar role in the USA as undoubtedly Al Jazeera does in the Arab and Muslim geographies.

No other country than Israel is subject to such overwhelming, negative and rabidly hostile exposure from the BBC. A report on the BBC’s bias, the Balen Report commissioned in 2004 has never been released to the license fee payer who funds the BBC and the cowardly BBC spent hundreds of thousands of pounds and man hours ensuring the report will never be published. Oh, where are the whistle blowers when you need one. One can only assume that the report would expose the BBC and their Middle East journalists unfavorably and endorse the obvious – that the BBC’s anti-Jewish State agenda is part of its DNA.

The BBC has enormous influence over a global audience who believe the brand is trustworthy and balanced. No morally decent nor intellectually competent person maintains that view on the BBC’s Israel – Palestinian reporting. It is not only their direct reporting that is at fault but certain flagship, political TV and Radio programs such as the weekly Question Time and Any Questions with an invited guest panel and audience participation.

Both these programs were at one time hosted by the Dimbleby brothers whose father Richard was one of the first correspondents to enter a post war concentration camp. For twenty or more years these programs had an invited panel and audience participation and invariably one or more of the panels and certainly the studio audience were rabidly hostile to Israel and obsessively pro-Palestinian. This naturally was closely aligned to the BBC’s agenda which for decades has indoctrinated and provided disproportionate hostile news reports alluding to Israel whilst cultivating sympathetic news exposure to the Palestinian cause. Anti-Jewish state public hostility influenced by the BBC undoubtedly assisted in creating the antisemitism we are witnessing within the UK currently. The Dimbleby brothers were either knowingly or unknowingly aware of the inherent bias within their programs.

If the former they should have been sacked for such bias and if the latter they should have been sacked for professional incompetence. Their father must be turning in his grave witnessing the behavior of those reared from his loins. I have always wondered how these two publicly school educated toffs managed to be the face of BBC news and current affairs programs and quite unbelievably missed reporting, during their watch, at least  four genocides in Africa (Rwanda and the DRC as just two examples) responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of indigenous black Africans. It is always a source of amazement to me how they even managed to excessively report on the Israel Palestinian issue and never once mention the Palestinian charters and manifestos demanding Jew extermination. Incompetence and bias, I would suspect.

I have been barred by the BBC from their complaints procedure for continuously complaining about a news story which will highlight and validate my claims on BBC bias. Some years ago, a minor event morphed into a major news item simply because of the time and effort BBC Middle East news editors, journalists, commentators and reporters devoted to the incident. A teenage girl who claimed to be Palestinian but in fact was Bosnian I believe, slapped an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint border crossing. Unsurprisingly a TV crew was on hand to film the incident, as like so many Pallywood productions it was a stage-managed event. The soldier at first did not react but after several slaps form the ‘Palestinian’ slapper she was arrested. This story was not only reported on primetime tv news by the BBC and on numerous BBC radio programs but appeared every day for six months on the BBC global news online website. Naturally, this story was on average one of three anti-Israel stories out of six or seven news items reported on the website which supposedly covered global news. Moreover, the BBC reported this story on its other non-English speaking websites similarly to ensure a global audience was reached.

I diligently noted all this and started to complain to the BBC and received three brush off replies. On the fourth complaint they wrote back informing me that I was a serial complainer and that the BBC will no longer respond to any complaints on their news output from myself.

So just take this in. A stage-managed story of such minor importance is given overwhelming global significance over an excessively extended time period simply because the victim was Palestinian. It defies logic except if one considers the anti-Jewish state bias entrenched within the BBC and those working within it. As a comparison in multiples of time and space devoted to this story compared to the genocide committed on nearly one million black Africans in Rwanda the maths are staggering. My back of the envelope statistics calculated that for every 10,000 Rwandans killed the BBC devoted less than one second but for every slap on an Israeli soldier during a stage-managed event, the BBC devoted two months.

Jew hatred runs through the veins of mainstream media and voices of dissent are obliterated just as the Rwandans.

The only chink of light were recent statistics identifying that the BBC is drastically losing audience viewers on its tv news output and current affairs programs. I hope this downward; spiraling trajectory continues.

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Peter Baum
Peter Baum, Editor (International Political Affairs) to Blitz is a research-scholar, who writes extensively on Israel, Holocaust, Zionism, Middle East, Anti-Semitism, and other issues. Peter Baum has worked for four decades in the International Financial Markets specializing in the Capital Market. He held directorships at large International Financial Institutions and ended career as consultant to an Investment Management company. Baum is a member of the Institute of Directors. He has worked extensively abroad in the Asia, Africa, the USA and Europe and after retirement spends his time as a political researcher, activists and columnist. In addition to his engagement with Blitz, Peter Baum has also been writing for the Gatestone Institute, Conservative Woman and Decisive Liberty and has appeared numerous times on TV and radio mainly talking about Israel and the Middle East.

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