> this appears, unsurprisingly, to have mutated into the idea that Muslims have a religious duty to deceive non-Muslims if it "furthers the cause" of Islam. And it works – not least because the Beeb, along with virtually all western media, are determined to downplay or ignore entirely the all-important Islamic element in the conflict.
Witness the case of BBC reporter Lucy Williamson's interview back in December 2023 with a teenager released from an Israeli jail, who claimed that he'd been regularly beaten and abused by Israeli guards, with the bones in his hands all smashed up. As I noted at the time, the Israeli prison service made public a film of the lad on his release, with hands – and everything else – absolutely fine. But our nice reporter sat with the family, boy with bandaged hands, and was clearly moved by the deep sincerity of these lovely down-trodden people. The claim was that the cruel Israeli guards not only beat the poor prisoners, but set dogs on them, threatened to rape the women, and tear-gassed inmates inside cells. All breathlessly reported, with only the minor caveat that the Israelis denied all this….and that film.
It happens all the time.
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