1/ The @BBC wants us to know that Palestinian rioters in Gaza—remember their swastika kites?—didn't really mean "Jews" when they said "Jews." Because in the BBC's apparent view, they're too primitive to know the meaning of the word "Jews." (A thread.) bbcwatch.org/2019/05/15/bbc…
2/ I'm being too generous. BBC didn't really "want" us to know. The mistranslations (e.g. from "rip a Jew’s head off" to "rip an Israeli's head off") were surreptitious. But BBC was called out and had to defend its decision to conceal anti-Jewish language. jpost.com/Middle-East/BB…
3/ The @nytimes once tried a similar stunt. After a Palestinian boy murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl in her sleep, his mother called him a "martyr" and a "hero." The NYT posted that video, but doctored the words to conceal her approval: camera.org/article/new-yo…
4/ Unlike the BBC, the NY Times at least corrected its subtitles after the mistranslations were called out. (An aside: I could be wrong, but a quick Google search suggests that the BBC never reported on the swastikas that flew during the Gaza riots.)
5/ So the sophisticated journalists at the BBC insist they know what Palestinians mean better than the Palestinians themselves, who in fact are quite capable of choosing their words.
BBC policy is meant to hide Palestinian antisemitism. Imagine that happening in other contexts:
6/ For example, Netanyahu's ugly comment that "Arabs are voting in droves," which the BBC has repeatedly cited. Imagine the BBC instead reporting:
"Netanyahu tried to inspire his base by telling them, 'My political opponents are voting in droves.'"
7/ I mean, clearly Netanyahu wasn't opposed to those Arabs who voted Likud, the higher-truthers of the BBC might say. (Which, at least, would be more plausible than "Gazans are incapable of differentiating between the words Jews and Israelis, or of anti-Jewish language.")
8/ When reporting on racist mourners chanting "Death to Arabs!," the BBC didn't translate it as "Death to terrorists!" or "Death to Islamists!" Why? Are these people more sophisticated than Palestinians? Are Gazans less capable of linguistic nuance than others?
9/ Of course not. But for Gazans who speak ill of Jews, the BBC does its best Salieri-in-Amadeus impression:
10/ Don't worry. All this time they were just talking about Israelis!
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The online campaign to blame Jews for what attackers characterized as a "Jew hunt, which included miscaptioned video that spread on X, made its way to mainstream media.
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⇝ The New York Times insisted it had video of Israelis chanting that there are no children in Gaza. Were they duped by the widely circulated miscaptioned video?
After initially stonewalling, the paper informed @CAMERAorg it had no such video, and published corrections. 🧵
⇝ The Media Line claimed it had video of the same chant. After @CAMERAorg called for substantiation, it admitted it had no such video. It quietly corrected its piece to refer to a "reported" chant.
⇝ Same claim, and same stealth correction from the Jewish Chronicle. 🧵
1/ Among those hired by the @nytimes to cover Israel-related topics:
* The "How great you are, Hitler" guy
* Someone who denied Hamas murders civilians
* Someone who said she can't even look at Israelis and that her “objectivity got thrown out the window"
And now introducing…🥁
2/ Another radical anti-Israel hire by the @nytimes.
Bora Erden, an anti-Israel activist, who was hired days after the Oct. 7 massacre to cover Israel and anti-Israel activists.
Who is Erden?
3/ In May 2021, after a round of fighting prompted by Hamas's launch of indiscriminate rockets into Israel, Erden signed a letter to support the so-called "Palestinian struggle against Israeli colonial rule and its apartheid system." socialtextjournal.org/free-palestine…
1/ The @nytimes regularly sanitizes anti-Israel protests.
Its coverage of Saturday's protest in D.C. conceals that demonstrators held a banner supporting Al Qassam—Hamas's armed branch behind the Oct. 7 slaughter—while chanting that Hezbollah should "kill another Zionist now."
2/ Also ignored by the NYT is a sign that said "stand with Hamas."