Mick Hartley

I posted last week about the BBC tackling antisemitism in Panorama, noting the disgraceful if predictable failure to make any mention of Islam. Josh Howie at Spiked calls them out – The BBC asks why Jews are afraid – it should look in the mirror:

The closest mention of Islam is the presenter saying ‘Islamophobia’. The mention of which is, of course, compulsory whenever anyone raises the racist targeting of Jews.

This is an unforgivable failure. What links the four suspects arrested for setting fire to four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green last month? What about the father and son who carried out a mass shooting, murdering 15 Jews at a Bondi Beach Chanukah celebration in December? Or the three men jailed in February for planning a mass shooting of Jews in Manchester? Or the seven men arrested this week for allegedly planning more attacks on British Jews? What belief system connects them all? All of them were Islamists.

The BBC has been culpable in this explosion of anti-Semitism. When two Jews were murdered last October, what did the Islamist attacker scream? ‘This is for killing babies’ – that’s what he said. Only months before, the BBC broadcast to the world the lie that the Jewish State would soon be responsible for killing 14,000 babies in Gaza. Not one baby starved, yet still the article remains on the BBC website.

Documentaries narrated by the children of Hamas officials, the broadcasting of ‘death to the IDF’ (Israel Defence Forces) chants during coverage of Glastonbury, false reports of Israel blowing up hospitals – if BBC producers wanted to make a real documentary about why Jews are afraid, they already own most of the copyright. In the meantime, they can shove this weak-ass attempt at playing defence for Islam, while covering their own failures, up their hole.