Well, BBc does have a bias and internal memos have surfaced in the last week or so in which they admit as much.
However, I don't think the bias is as much antisemitic as socialist-progressive. What we call the left on this side of the pond. Where Israel runs afoul of is that the BBC buys the propaganda machine of the anti-Israeli Muslim world hook-line-and-sinker and is airing that rubish uncritically. The BBc doesn't ask the hard questions, such as, Why haven't the surrouding nations taken in the refugees who heeded their call to leave Israel in 1948 and treated them like the "brothers" they claim them to be. Instead, they confined them to the so called "refugee camps" and treated them like vermin. And that in was done in some cases by the very countries which claimed soverignty over the so called land of Palestine!
The surrounding countries lost that war and every other war which followed. Their failure was complete until they hit upon the strategy of labeling the Israelis as invaders and started charging them with mistreating the "palestinians" still living in the "occupied territories." Leftists, who always want to be seen as having sympathy for the oppressed jumped on that bandwagon and have uncritically supported the Arabs every since, depsite evidence to the contrary. And that includes the BBC.
Tell me. Did the BBC devote as much time to and condemn the deliberate targeting of civilians by Hezbollah during the last altercation as they did reporting and condemning the so called "atrocities" by Israel? Did they condemn the invasion of Israeli territory and kidnapping of her soldiers as harshly as they condemned Israel's response? Be honest now. I don't have access to their audio and video reporting, but I sure noticed a wide disparity on these issues in their written coverage on the net. If I had that to go by, then I would've concluded that Israel had attacked Lebanon with absolutely provocation and had acted like Ghengis Khan's hordes. I would've also concluded that they'd been roundly defeated as the BBc didn't report that Hezbollah's agreement to the cease fire came when the Israeli's switched tactics and were overuning the territory under Hezbollah control.
Time and again, all I saw reported were Arab charges that Israel was targeting civilians indescriminantly. When the BBC joined in condemning the shelling of the UN facility, the BBC conveniently forgot to mention that it sat right next to a Hezbollah facility which was targeting Israeli troops. and I can go on and on. But then, the BBC was not all alone in uncritically reporting the Arab side of the story.
In my onpinion, the bias is socialist-progressive. Right now, it is cool among those folks to be anti-Israel, anti-US. And the old saying about "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is the dynamic at work here. As I said, internal memos admitting that left-wing bias have surfaced. You might not like the messengers (your so called right-leaning papers), but I think the memo's prove the point.
Ironically enough, I think it can truthfully be said that the "palestinians" in the "occupied territories" were far better off than they've been since Israel was forced into the idiotic solution of giving Arafat and his cronies political control over most of those territories. Those folks have proven corrupt and have either stolen or squandered all the money given to them for the benefit of the people. Instead of building a thriving democracy, they've made everyone miserable. And still, the BBC, Rueters, CNN, and most of the western media blame Israel for the squalor and misery of those poor people! How moronic!
Forscher
