Mick Hartley

Nicole Lampert at the JC on the BBC's anti-Israel bias:

The BBC regularly trumpets itself as the nation’s most trusted news brand. And if the nation"s most trusted news brand is intent on demonising Israel, focuses on stories about the bombing of schools in Gaza without explaining they are Hamas holdouts, never queries people when they call the Israel-Gaza war "genocide" and positions stories so that it seems that even when children in Israel are killed, somehow it is the fault of Israel for being there (and they are no longer children but young people) doesn’t it stand to reason that the people who support this "genocidal baby-killing" must be monsters?

And isn't it then practically incumbent on good caring people to despise these Israel-supporting Jews who turn out to be just as bad as everyone said?

I don't know a single Jewish person who isn’t concerned about BBC bias. The people who are most critical of all, are the Jewish people who work at the Beeb. They have concern not only about the output but – for at least some of them – a hostile work environment. Mostly they whisper painfully, "It's an absolute sh*t show". A few are still wondering whether they can stay.

For some Jewish BBC staff, the corporation has an unconscious bias to always see Israeli as the aggressor, and the Palestinians the victims.

No surprise, then, that the BBC is lost for words at the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh. Why would the Israelis do such a horrible thing? Haniyeh was "moderate and pragmatic"; he was  "involved in the ceasefire and hostage release talks", which of course were going so well. Yes, he had $4 billion to live on in his life of luxury in Qatar while he happily sacrificed the people of Gaza as martyrs in the cause – "we need this blood so that it will ignite within us the spirit of revolution". – but no need to mention any of that when they have the bad guys, the Israelis, clear in their sights.