Mick Hartley

The indefatigable David Collier takes a look at the BBC’s latest exciting new venture, The Global Story.

The episode that took my eye was titled ‘Why Netanyahu gets what he wants from the US’.

As the title implies, the programme set out to suggest that successive US Presidents are little more than puppets of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The claim that Israel secretly controls America is a classic antisemitic trope rooted in centuries-old conspiracy theories about Jewish power and manipulation. It recycles the same false narrative once used in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion- that Jews operate behind the scenes to dominate governments, media, and finance. In modern form, it disguises traditional antisemitism in political language but serves the same purpose: to demonise Jews as a hidden, malevolent force….

Worth a read. It’s the by-now familiar story of the BBC allowing political activists to shape its coverage of Israel – in predictable ways.