nd Falasha, strictly Orthodox and happily irreligious – but for Hamas none of that matters. Israel must be erased because it is the national home of the “Yahud”. Hamas are not seeking to fight a war of resistance against another nation but a war of elimination against Jewish existence. It’s there in their constitution. It was there in the gleeful messages their fighters sent home on October 7 when they gloried in the spilling of – specifically – Jewish blood.
The BBC have, of course, apologised for their mistake in broadcasting the documentary as it was. Which should be gracefully acknowledged. But this one programme was not broadcast in isolation. And the use of “Yahud” in this way was not a one off. Again and again the BBC, and its Arabic service, cover conflict in the Middle East in a manner not so much one-sided as wilfully morally blind. Every time they are found to have made a mistake – whether it’s over who bombed a hospital or who produces reliable statistics on casualties they apologise. Which is good. But what they have not done – yet – is acknowledge that all these errors, omissions, mistranslations, gullible repetitions and propaganda-relating is consistently anti-Israel.
I can’t think of a single occasion where the BBC, let alone its Arabic service, has made an identifiable editorial error by being too trusting of Israeli sources or too indulgent to pro-Israel voices. There’s a pattern here….
Their determination to whitewash Hamas, and paint the Israelis as the aggressors, requires that they refuse to acknowledge the antisemitism that drives Hamas, and, in particular, refuse to acknowledge the dominant role of Islam here. They're distorting the truth no less than Trump is distorting the truth when he talks about Ukraine and Putin.
Update: Starmer knows it's all about Islam.
Keir Starmer speaks at the first ever Ramadan Iftar event inside the British Parliament.
“…I know [this] has been a very difficult time for Muslims in the United Kingdom with the pain of the conflict in Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinians.”
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 4, 2025
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