A good point from the Elder of Zyon:
To me, the clearest proof of anti-Israel bias in Western media doesn’t come from what they report, but from what they choose not to report. Every major media outlet has Arabic speakers who read Al Ahram and Al Masry Al Youm daily, but I have not seen any articles about mainstream Arabic media antisemitism in many years, even though it is published literally every day in respected news outlets. It is a crime of omission, a deliberate silencing of the reality of the Middle East – that the hate of Israel isn’t based on Israeli actions but on age-old hatred of Jews that is systematic through their media, their schools and their politicians proudly spouting Jew hate in their parliaments.
MEMRI and MEMRI TV go some way to filling the gap, but yes, the idea of the BBC, say, doing a Panorama-style documentary on the blatant antisemitism to be found across Arab media is laughable. It’d be easy enough to do, god knows, but they wouldn’t touch it. Too busy demonising Israel.
Mick Hartley 