I’m out of words for how vile the BBC is. This is sickening.
I’ve noticed a couple of BBC journalists have followed me in the last few days. I hope you see this and feel ashamed.
Israel is (again) bombarding a mass concentration camp full of refugees living in literally “unliveable conditions” with no way out and the BBC portrays Palestinian resistance as the aggressor. It’s evident there’s nothing Israel can do that the BBC won’t justify or support.
The situation since this interview has only gotten more dire.
Crucial historical context that is rarely mentioned:
As several people have now pointed out, one of the sickest things about this reporting is that the image used is of Israeli attacks on Gaza but the headline implies the reverse. The BBC is truly shameless.
The constant use of “militants” serves a distinct purpose.
Its crucial to keep in mind that although the BBC’s coverage of Palestine is disgusting, it is not unique in its deception, on the contrary in fact, Its reporting on virtually all other issues whether Syria, Venezuela, China or elsewhere is equally as dishonest and distorted.

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14 May
The reason "Israel is surrounded by enemies" as Zionists like to say, implying it's the victim, is because in addition to the Palestinians themselves, the populations of *every* single country it borders, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt & Jordan, have all suffered repeatedly at its hands.
Countless thousands have been massacred, displaced & wounded by Israel in all of those countries (and beyond) in manifold forms of violence including aerial bombardments, invasions, occupations and assassinations. The damage that Israel has inflicted on West Asia is incalculable.
Of course, those countries all host millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants, so many of whom Israel has destroyed the lives and homes of again and again and again.
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12 May
If you've recently found out about Palestine & are outraged by injustice Palestinians suffer. Don't let anyone chip away at that with ideas of 'complexity' or 'intractable, age-old conflicts'. It is a simple case of oppressor/oppressed, & there's only one just side to be on.
Education often instils within us an aversion to taking resolute & definitive positions - as though the truth *always* lies somewhere between 2 ostensibly extreme points. This prism pushes us away from our humanity & ability to see clear injustice & oppose it without reservation.
The Palestinian cause reveals the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of that prism:
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10 May
I expect the worse from the BBC but this is absolutely disgraceful. Each line more ahistorical, insulting and misleading than the next.
International law itself says the settlements are illegal under international law, not just the Palestinians, you shameless ghouls @BBCNews
Whole disgusting article is here, truly a masterclass in propaganda and distortion: bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-…
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8 May
The framing of US “complicity” in Israel’s violence against the Palestinians actually obscures the extent of its responsibility. Israel is enabled & maintained in every conceivable way by the US - militarily, economically, diplomatically & politically. It’s just as responsible.
Kwame Ture:
Nasrallah: “Who bears the primary responsibility for all of Israel’s crimes, it’s massacres, the occupation & what it is doing in Jerusalem, the al-Aqsa mosque, the West Bank, Gaza Strip & inside Palestine before Netanyahu & the terrorist army of Netanyahu? It is America...”
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29 Apr
In May 2003, Dr David Kelly told a BBC journalist that Alastair Campbell had personally added the invented ‘45 minute’ WMD claim to the infamous 'dodgy dossier' on Iraq. Two months later, after being exposed under pressure from Campbell and subsequently harassed, Kelly was dead.
Campbell’s reinvention as a celebrity mental health advocate is grotesque.
It should never be forgotten that people like John McDonnell and Owen Jones have been central to Campbell’s rehabilitation/transformation into a respectable elder statesman type figure.
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18 Apr
This Super League is a reflection of broader changes already underway/accelerating: increasing monopolisation, widening inequality, lack of transparency, voice of the people/fans ignored.. I hope it makes fans connect the dots & see this is happening in every area of their lives.
Depressing as it is, this move is the inevitable result of the capitalist economic/poltical system under which the public good, including our enjoyment of sport, is readily sacrificed for the profits of a handful of unaccountable, unelected billionaires who do as they please.
“JP Morgan will underwrite the project, with $6 billion distributed as loans to the teams” google.com/amp/s/www.espn…
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