[Pongo]

Lord Grade said the report had implied “equivalence between Israeli victims of terrorism and Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli security forces in the act of carrying out terror attacks”.

BBC has shown 'inexcusable bias' on Israel

Lord Grade claimed that the BBC ‘directly misled’ viewers in a report
The reports was about the recent stabbing attacks on Israelis
Ex-BBC boss said it failed to show Palestinian groups praise the attacks
It is not the first time the BBC has faced criticism over its reports on Israel
See the latest news on the BBC and accusations of bias

By Katherine Rushton For The Daily Mail

Published: 00:15 GMT, 22 October 2015 | Updated: 11:53 GMT, 22 October 2015

Lord Grade claimed that the BBC ‘directly misled’ viewers in a report about the recent wave of stabbing attacks on Israelis

The BBC is facing a new row over its coverage of Israel, after former chairman Michael Grade accused the broadcaster of an ‘inexcusable’ bias.

Lord Grade claimed that the BBC ‘directly misled’ viewers in a report about the recent wave of stabbing attacks on Israelis, by failing to show militant Palestinian groups praising the attacks.

Over the last two months, seven Israelis have been killed and dozens have been wounded in a shooting, a stoning and a series of stabbings.

At least 40 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including several identified by Israel as attackers.

But in a letter to BBC director of news James Harding, Lord Grade accused the BBC of drawing unfair comparisons between the Israeli victims of terrorism, and Palestinians terrorists who had been killed by Israeli forces trying to stop them.

It created an ‘equivalence between Israeli victims of terrorism and Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli security forces in the act of carrying out terror attacks,’ he said.

Lord Grade also argued that the controversial report ‘directly misled’ viewers by telling them there was ‘no sign of involvement by militant groups’ in the latest attacks – then confusing them with footage of militants’ banners hanging outside the house of a known terrorist.

‘[It was] improper of the correspondent to claim that “there’s no sign of involvement by militant groups”, before immediately showing footage of Palestinian Islamic Jihad banners at the home of a 19-year-old terrorist who carried out a deadly knife attack at Lion’s Gate in Jerusalem on October 3.

‘Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a well-known Palestinian terror organisation and it has since claimed responsibility for the attack and been praised by Hamas, another internationally proscribed terror organisation. This directly misleads viewers,’ Lord Grade said.

He also savaged the BBC for failing to ‘fulfil its obligations to viewers’ by focusing too heavily on one side of the emotional story.

Over the last two months, seven Israelis have been killed and dozens have been wounded in a shooting, a stoning and a series of stabbings


The three-minute report featured an interview with the ‘grief stricken’ father of the 19-year old murderer, who was killed after he stabbed two Israelis.

However, it did not show the emotional toll the recent wave of violence has had on the other side of the political divide.

‘An emotional interview is conducted with the father of a dead Palestinian youth who had been killed committing a fatal terror attack. However, the report failed to show the emotional distress caused to Israelis by any of these recent attacks. This is inexcusable,’ Lord Grade said.

He said that the BBC’s failure to address ‘the wider context’ was limiting viewers’ ‘awareness and understanding of what is an undoubtedly complex issue’.

However, it did not show the emotional toll the recent wave of violence has had on the other side of the political divide


A BBC spokesman said: ‘We are committed to reporting all aspects of a very complex conflict in a fair and balanced way, reflecting a range of voices. We believe our impartiality is best measured by considering the full spectrum of the BBC’s reporting, rather than an individual story.

‘We will be sending Lord Grade a full response to his letter.’

It is not the first time that Miss Guerin has faced criticism over her reports on Israel. In 2004, the Israeli government accused her of ‘deep-seated bias against Israel’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Grade.html

[pugsville]

And how is this Man's opinion particularly relevant ? He didnt like Dr Who so he's pretty suspect.

The BBC is mostly pro-Israeli in it's coverage. Israel really does on the whole get a complete dream run in the Media.

[Pongo]

How exactly it's pro Israel?

Jerusalem Terror Attack: BBC Headline


Two Israeli men were fatally stabbed in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday evening. The Palestinian attacker was shot dead by security forces after he opened fire on them. The wife of one of the victims and their two-year-old baby were lightly wounded.

How did the BBC initially report on the attack?



Notice how the main focus of the headline is the death of the Palestinian perpetrator who is “shot dead,” effectively turning the terrorist into the victim.

And what is a “Jerusalem attack?” Cities don’t attack people. In this case, the BBC cannot bring itself to apportion responsibility to a Palestinian. Nor does it state that the actual victims of the attack were Israeli Jews.

Disturbing, yes. Surprising, no. The BBC has a history of publishing headlines where Palestinian terrorists are sanitized to the point that inanimate objects such as bulldozers are held responsible for killing Israelis.

http://honestreporting.com/jerusalem-te ... e-shocker/

What if the media reported the Paris terror attacks like they often report terror attacks on Israelis?

The headline would look like this




If it's wrong in Paris, it's wrong in Jerusalem.

[Noelnada]

Ridiculous zionist talking point.

Take your fallacies elsewhere

[skinster]

The BBC is...pro-Israeli in it's coverage.

Of course it is, that people think otherwise is laughable.

[Hong Wu]

I can only lol at people who say the media isn't biased these days. Hillary's latest email leak showed how media people were cooperating with her and Chelsea Clinton to make them look good, we have debate moderators arguing with candidates, it's a joke. Honor died at some point.

[quetzalcoatl]

I can only lol at people who say the media isn't biased these days. Hillary's latest email leak showed how media people were cooperating with her and Chelsea Clinton to make them look good, we have debate moderators arguing with candidates, it's a joke. Honor died at some point.

When you have candidates lying quite openly about verifiable facts, with the full knowledge that they will never be called to account, what is an honorable journalist's obligation?

[Hong Wu]

When you have candidates lying quite openly about verifiable facts, with the full knowledge that they will never be called to account, what is an honorable journalist's obligation?

Honor is following your role, not moralizing. We could argue about who allegedly did what all day and it would not be the point.

[quetzalcoatl]

Honor is following your role, not moralizing. We could argue about who allegedly did what all day and it would not be the point.

'Your role' being, in this case, an unquestioning mouthpiece for whatever entity is paying your salary. We truly do live in a post-modern world where facts just don't matter. But I'm being a bit optimistic, actually. Fact-checkers are regarded as agents of the enemy.

[Heinie]

"Lord" Grade is a Jew.

[Pongo]

Ridiculous zionist talking point.

Take your fallacies elsewhere

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[skinster]

The headline is factually correct, but offence was caused to Israel’s PR machine because the killing of 19-year-old Muhannad Halabi took precedence in the headline over the killing of two Israelis.

How Israel exerts its influence on the BBC

[Heinie]

The headline is factually correct, but offence was caused to Israel’s PR machine because the killing of 19-year-old Muhannad Halabi took precedence in the headline over the killing of two Israelis.

How Israel exerts its influence on the BBC

A good article. I doubt anyone with a passing knowledge of the Israelis and how they act did not already know the BBC does whatever is necessary to keep the Jewish state happy.

[skinster]

Yup. Which is why it's especially amusing to hear zionists claim that the BBC is biased against Israel. It's laughable.

[GandalfTheGrey]

Two Israeli men were fatally stabbed in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday evening. The Palestinian attacker was shot dead by security forces after he opened fire on them. The wife of one of the victims and their two-year-old baby were lightly wounded.

How did the BBC initially report on the attack?

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Notice how the main focus of the headline is the death of the Palestinian perpetrator who is “shot dead,” effectively turning the terrorist into the victim.

And what is a “Jerusalem attack?” Cities don’t attack people. In this case, the BBC cannot bring itself to apportion responsibility to a Palestinian. Nor does it state that the actual victims of the attack were Israeli Jews.

Seriously WTF??

The clutching at straws here is just pure comedy.

[wat0n]

"Lord" Grade is a Jew.

The horror!

[Pongo]

Seriously WTF??

The clutching at straws here is just pure comedy.

Another example is a headline in British newspaper The Independent about stabbing attack near Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, in which two Jewish men in their 60s were wounded. The attacker, Ishak Badran, 16, was shot and killed by police who rushed to the scene.

The paper used the headline "Israeli security forces kill boy, 16, after stabbing in Jerusalem as violence continues," ignoring the fact that the boy was the one who carried out the stabbing attack.

The article described the attacker as "the seventh Palestinian shot dead by Israeli security forces in just 24 hours."

Only in the second paragraph of the article was the stabbing attack described.

Independent’s anti-Israel bias shines through in comically misleading headline
BY ADAM LEVICK ON OCTOBER 10, 2015

Two elderly Jewish men were victims of a stabbing attack on Saturday in Jerusalem. The perpetrator of the attack, a 16-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by police shortly after the stabbing.

There has now been more than a dozen Palestinian or Arab terror attacks against Israelis, involving knives, in the past eight days.

Here’s how The Independent chose to frame the story.





After complaints to Indy editors, they changed it to this:

indy headline





Despite the minor improvement, they still lead with the death of the perpetrator, and the text leaves readers unsure whether the boy killed by police was one responsible for the stabbing. Further, the Israeli victims are not mentioned.

Even worse, here’s the opening paragraph, in the report by Lizzie Dearden, which clearly inspired the original headline:

A 16-year-old boy has become the seventh Palestinian shot dead by Israeli security forces in just 24 hours as a wave of violence continues.

In the second paragraph, we finally learn that the boy was shot after stabbing two Jews.

Moreover, you’d have to read the entire article to even get a hint that seven Palestinians were “shot dead by Israeli security forces in just 24 hours” in response to a wave of terror attacks against Israelis.

Even by British media standards, this represents an especially egregious example of anti-Israel bias.

http://ukmediawatch.org/2015/10/10/inde ... -headline/

This is the face of Jew-hate the West supports

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By Tuvia Brodie
10/11/2015, 8:10 PM

Tuvia Brodie


Arabs are not the only ones who marinate in vicious Jew-hate. Much of the Western Press is guilty of the same hate, though expressed with more nuance. Take a headline from England’s The Independent: “Israeli security forces kill boy, 16”. It leads into a simple, clear story that portrays that teenage boy as victim. It’s an anti-Israel story that only obliquely references some connection to stabbings in Jerusalem (William A. Jacobson, “Israeli security forces kill boy, 16″. Legal Insurrection, October 10, 2015).

Israeli security forces killed that 16 year-old because he was stabbing elderly Jews. He was no ‘innocent’ victim of ‘Israeli brutality’. He was shot while in the act of attempting to kill Jews.

Here are the pictures that that anti-Israel story wouldn’t show you (pictures courtesy Legal Insurrection):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs ... .aspx/7595

Israel: biased reporting on the killing of Ishaq Badran, a 16-year-old Palestinian
by Paul Sorene | 11th, October 2015

Israel is back on top of the news cycle. But how is the UK media covering the story? Let’s look at one incident.

The Independent tells us:

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The Israelis have killed a boy. There have been stabbings in Jerusalem.

Lizzie Dearden reports:

A 16-year-old boy has become the seventh Palestinian shot dead by Israeli security forces in just 24 hours as a wave of violence continues.

The boy is dead. The number of dead Palestinians is rising.

He had launched a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem’s Old City, and then tried to attack officers on Saturday morning, according to police.

The boy was armed, then. He was on the offensive.

“Two men stabbed lightly are receiving medical treatment,” said police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld. “Police officers shot and killed terrorist at the scene.”

It came hours after militants in Gaza fired a rocket into Israel overnight.

But the “boy” is the headline. Does that alter your sense of what occurred? Does it play to prejudices?

Fear has gripped Jerusalem in the aftermath of a number of Palestinian stabbing attacks targeting Israeli security forces and civilians, leading the city’s mayor, Nir Barkat, to call on citizens with gun licences to carry their weapons at all times.

Taking a knife to a gun fight. Who wins?

In other news sources, we learn who the boy stabbed, something Dearden does not mention.

The AP begins its report:

Palestinians carried out two stabbing attacks in Jerusalem on Saturday before being shot dead by police, while another two Palestinians were killed during a violent demonstration near the Gaza border fence, as a weeklong bout of violence showed no signs of slowing…

In the third paragraph we learn:

In the first stabbing on Saturday, a 16-year-old Arab attacked two Israelis who were walking from the Old City toward the city center, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. Police opened fire, killing the attacker. The two victims were lightly wounded, Rosenfeld said.

Sources say the two Israelis were returning from prayers. They were unarmed. the BBC notes: “Police said Saturday’s first stabbing had been carried out by a 16-year-old Palestinian. Two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in their 60s were wounded, police and medics said.”

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[GandalfTheGrey]

Another example is a headline in British newspaper The Independent about stabbing attack near Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, in which two Jewish men in their 60s were wounded. The attacker, Ishak Badran, 16, was shot and killed by police who rushed to the scene.

The paper used the headline "Israeli security forces kill boy, 16, after stabbing in Jerusalem as violence continues," ignoring the fact that the boy was the one who carried out the stabbing attack.

Yes because actually stating the facts in a headline is simply outrageous.

Clearly the Independent should be running headlines like:

"Saintly jews viciously attacked by hellish horned demons".

After decades of blind subvervience by the west to Israeli imperialism - I guess it would come as a bit of a kick in the teeth when western media actually start reporting facts with something approaching objectivity.

[Pongo]

After decades of blind subvervience by the west to Israeli imperialism - I guess it would come as a bit of a kick in the teeth when western media actually start reporting facts with something approaching objectivity.

Knee jerk reaction.

[Tailz]

Western Media is anti-jewish?? Have you seen CNN?