Why the BBC Acts as a Propaganda Outlet for Israel – An Insider View
[ 16 July 2019 ]
By Gilad Atzmon, reposted from
Gilad Online The
BBC’s Panorama channel ‘investigation’ into Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism’
was so blatantly one sided its broadcast as ‘news’ demanded an
explanation. In an attempt to grasp why the British national broadcaster
fails to fulfill its core mission to report the news in as unbiased a
manner as possible, I interviewed a former senior editor for the BBC.
The editor, a 35 year veteran of the BBC, reveals the culture that has
steered the BBC into its present position as a Zionist mouthpiece. In acting as a whistle blower, the former editor risks severe
consequences. In Britain leading journalists have been locked behind
bars and put under threat of extradition for reporting information whose
truthfulness has not even been challenged. Sadly, this danger is heightened under the present toxic
political atmosphere in Britain, as demonstrated by its purging of a
major political party and its tolerance for abuse of its judicial system
to deter and punish anyone who dares to question the Zionist narrative. Q: When did the BBC become openly biased?
Q: Who and what drove this cultural and political
direction within the corporation?
Q: What about political impartiality, supposedly a
core BBC value? Q: Does the broadcaster have the means or
inclination to fix itself ? Q: Some of the so-called Labour
‘Whistleblowers’ were exposed by
Al Jazeera as Israeli Lobby assets. Is it
possible that the BBC was so bold as to interview these characters
hoping that no one would notice or was it simply a matter of a clumsy
decision making? Can the BBC match the journalistic dedication of
organisations such as RT or Al Jazeera?
Q: You worked in the corporation for 35 years, did
you notice a deterioration in the quality of people hired? Was there a
change in employees’ attitudes and their willingness to express
themselves freely and critically?
Gilad Atzmon is a former Israeli citizen who writes frequently on
Israel-Palestine and the pro-Israel lobby.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745329789/more-bad-news-from-israel/
More Bad News From Israel
Arch-Zionist gets top BBC strategy job – Redress Information & Analysis In his new post at the BBC, he will be in charge of the corporation’s
policy, strategy, digital services, public affairs, communications,
marketing and audience research – in other words, pretty much everything
that matters in the BBC. That is why anyone who cares about fair and objective reporting of the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict should be gravely concerned, for Mr Purnell has
a rock-solid record as a stooge of Israel......... From 2002 to 2004 James Purnell served as chairman of
Labour Friends of Israel –
heading a Zionist lobby group, it would seem, is a prerequisite for high
office in Britain.................
BBC editor tells staff to be soft on Israel According to the report, Raffi Berg [ A Jew? - Editor ], the
editor of the BBC News website’s
Middle East section, has been sending his staff emails advising them to
write more favourably about Israel. Berg was promoted to his current position earlier in August, having
already worked as a journalist on the Middle East desk. He replaces Tarik
Kafala, who has moved over to head the BBC’s Arabic Service............. The Electronic Intifada relates that in an email exchange in the
last week of August with a British-Palestinian activist, Berg admitted that
the emails were his. The activist drew Berg’s attention to the fact that neutral sources agree
that Israel’s assassination of Hamas commander Ahmad Jabari was the trigger
for the assault which followed, and asked why Berg was requesting BBC
journalists to de-emphasize this fact............. However, as the Electronic Intifada points out, in the days
preceding the execution of Jabari,
Israel killed seven Palestinians in Gaza, including five teenage boys,
in just 48 hours. But rather than report impartially on the scale and
regularity of lethal Israeli aggression in Gaza, “BBC
journalists stuck doggedly to the line, pushed by Berg, that Israel’s
eight-day pounding of the besieged Strip was about Israel defending
itself........
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BBC News website editor strikes again for Israel – Redress Information & Analysis
A robust message from Palestine’s foreign minister and an attempt at Israeli propaganda from BBC Israeli hasbara asset Raffi Berg
I’m not a reader of the BBC News website. Long ago I came to distrust the
BBC’s reporting of Middle East affairs, so I tend to ignore it. Berg’s line
of questioning prompted me to look deeper and I found
this piece from 2013 by Amena Saleem in Electronic Intifada
titled “BBC editor urged colleagues to downplay Israel’s siege of Gaza”, in
which she reports that Berg, during Israel’s eight-day assault on Gaza in
November 2012 which killed nearly 200 Palestinians, emailed BBC staff to
write more favourably about Israel. He urged them, allegedly, not to blame
Israel for the prolonged onslaught but to promote the Israeli government
line that the “offensive” was “aimed at ending rocket fire from Gaza”,
despite the fact that it was Israel which broke the ceasefire.
Is Danny Cohen fit to be director of BBC TV? – Redress Information & Analysis
[ NO! ] Danny Cohen, the director of BBC Television, asserted this week
that rising anti-Semitism has made him question the long-term future
for Jews in the UK. Speaking at a conference in Jerusalem, Cohen
said: “I’ve never felt so uncomfortable being a Jew in the UK as in
the last 12 months.” The ultra Zionist Times
of Israel reported that, in a conversation with Yonit Levi
on Israel’s Channel 2 TV station, Cohen acknowledged that Britain
might not be his “long term home”. “And it’s [being a Jew in the UK] made me think about, you know,
is it our long-term home, actually? Because you feel it. I’ve felt
it in a way I’ve never felt before actually.” One may wonder whether a person who thinks that Britain may not
be his “long term home” should run the biggest and most important
British media outlet. Might it be more appropriate for such a powerful job to be left
to a person who is primarily loyal to Britain and see this country
as his home?
Former head of BBC TV joins Zionist onslaught on Jeremy Corbyn – Redress Information & Analysis In his first interview since leaving the BBC under a dark cloud in
November last year, Cohen
told
The Times that being Jewish and voting for the British Labour Party
under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership would be like being a Muslim and voting for
Donald Trump.............. Cohen, a prominent figure in London’s Jewish community, joins a chorus of
Zionist lobbyists within Labour who claim that the party is tolerating
“anti-Semitic” behaviour. On 21 March Michael Levy threatened to resign from Labour unless Corbyn
makes a speech denouncing “anti-Semitism” immediately. Levy is a staunch Zionist and was principal fundraiser for war crimes
suspect Tony Blair’s New Labour Party.
https://www.redressonline.com/2015/03/bbcs-lame-interview-with-israels-defence-minister/
Sarah Montague’s interview with Israel’s defence minister, Moshe Ya’alon,
BBC’s lame interview with Israel’s defence minister – Redress Information &
Analysis
https://www.redressonline.com/2014/09/anthony-reuben-bbc-journalist-serving-israel/
https://www.redressonline.com/2014/09/anthony-reuben-bbc-journalist-serving-israel/
Anthony Reuben, BBC journalist serving Israel – Redress Information &
Analysis
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https://www.redressonline.com/2014/07/bbc-lets-right-wing-israeli-write-for-its-website/
https://www.redressonline.com/2014/07/bbc-lets-right-wing-israeli-write-for-its-website/
BBC lets right-wing Israeli write for its website – Redress Information &
Analysis
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Al Jazeera as Israeli Lobby assets.
Al Jazeera as Israeli Lobby assets.
http://tinyurl.com/yad6fslm). Th
https://www.redressonline.com/2017/01/watch-israels-penetration-of-the-uks-political-system-exposed/
https://www.redressonline.com/2017/01/watch-israels-penetration-of-the-uks-political-system-exposed/
Watch Israel’s penetration of the UK’s political system exposed – Redress
Information & Analysis
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contact@ifamericansknew.org
A 35-year-veteran of the BBC says the BBC has always been biased
toward Israel. He reports that a small number of hardline Zionists
occupy key positions at the top and middle levels of the corporation, as
well as at the shop-floor level – the people who select what to
broadcast on a daily basis
A: The BBC has always been biased towards Israel, and its
bias has been well documented. The reasons for this bias have long been
the subject of serious academic studies, the best known of which is
Greg Philo’s and Mike Berry’s More Bad News from Israel. In
fact, in 2006 an independent report commissioned by the BBC’s own
governing body concluded that the BBC’s coverage of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict “does not consistently constitute a full
and fair account of the conflict but rather, in important respects,
presents an incomplete and in that sense misleading picture.”
A: There are a number of drivers behind
this biased BBC culture. The most important is the fact that a small
number of hardline Zionists occupy key positions at the top and middle
levels of the corporation, as well as at the shop-floor level, by which
I mean the people who select what to publish or broadcast on a daily
basis and who provide editorial steer to journalists. This has been
widely publicised and has been in the public domain for some time — see,
for example, this http://tinyurl.com/ydhjzeek, these
(a) http://tinyurl.com/y7mjtkc6,
(b) http://tinyurl.com/y7k39vsh,
and (c) http://tinyurl.com/y3x9nktl.
Also see this http://tinyurl.com/y6ne4apn and
this http://tinyurl.com/y7l88zwl.
A: Unfortunately, there are many examples
of such pro- Israel hype, some blatant and others who slant the news by
use of emphasis and/or omission. For instance, there was
Sarah Montague’s interview with Israel’s defence minister, Moshe Ya’alon,
in March 2015, Head of Statistics’ Anthony Reuben’s reflection on
fatalities in Gaza (http://tinyurl.com/ycc9p8d4),
and the utilization of Gil Hoffman, an Israeli army reservist and chief
political correspondent for the Jerusalem Post to write for the
BBC News website (http://tinyurl.com/yanppk93)
to mention but a few.
A: In my opinion, the chances of the BBC
fixing itself is about zero. Apart from what I have said above, it is a
cowardly, spineless organisation. Not only does it always pursue the
path of least resistance by selecting to broadcast what is least likely
to upset the Zionist lobby, but it is also deadly afraid of what the Daily
Mail might say about its output. Very often, and by that I mean
almost on a daily basis, one would hear senior managers ask at the
morning agenda-setting editorial meetings, “What would the Daily
Mail say about that?” Invariably, they would choose what is least
likely to be picked up and criticised by the Daily Mail. Please
remember, this is a public broadcaster that is funded by taxpayers (yes,
the License Fee is a tax) and is supposed to “Educate, Inform and
Entertain”, not propagandise on behalf of Israel.
A: There is no chance whatsoever that the
BBC would do anything approximating Al Jazeera TV’s programme on Israeli
infiltration of the Labour Party (http://tinyurl.com/yad6fslm).
The BBC is institutionally pro-Zionist and institutionally spineless.
A: I
worked for the BBC’s English-language outlets as an editor and senior
editor for 35 years. Since the early 1990s there has been growing
intolerance of criticism of editorial management decisions, even in
internal forums which internal BBC propaganda claims are meant for staff
to speak freely. This applies across the board on all matters. But
certainly with regard to Israel and Zionism, any questioning of BBC
impartiality would attract accusations of anti-Semitism and would
certainly spell the end of one’s career, no matter how privately and
confidentially such criticism is conveyed.
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A Jew tells us about his brethren. Who am I to argue?
Was written by
Greg Philo, Professor of
Communications and Social Change (Sociology). telephone: 01413305983 email:
Gregory.Philo@glasgow.ac.uk
and Mike Berry.
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The incoming director-general of the BBC, Tony Hall, has
put a notorious Zionist apologist, James Purnell, in charge of strategy
at the corporation........
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The Electronic Intifada today published a
shocking report exposing the extent to which Israeli propagandists have
penetrated the BBC, Britain’s state broadcaster.Also see:
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The BBC News website’s Middle East section appears to have become all but
officially part of Israel’s propaganda machine, with one report after
another distorting indisputable facts to paint the best possible picture of
the Zionist state.
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Chatham House, the international affairs think-tank in London, recently
invited Dr Riad Malki, Palestine’s minister of foreign affairs, to
talk about the
future of Palestine ahead of the “Deal of the century” dreamed up by the
Trump administration. Malki is involved in shaping the Palestinian response
to that initiative when it is finally revealed.........
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Gilad Atzmon
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Cohen is an enemy alien.
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Like the contents of a poorly flushed toilet, Danny Cohen, the former
director of BBC Television, has resurfaced once again.
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