Thread by @jonsac

The BBC is so used to broadcasting bad faith antisemitic and anti-Israel material that it hardly surprises us any more. Here's a report about how they lied to a Rabbi before they interviewed him. I spoke with Rabbi Gideon Sylvester about his interview the day before and immediately after it, and I saw their invitation to him, so I know what happened.

This is not an isolated incident at all. It's part of a deliberate pattern.
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In 2021, Jewish children were attacked as they celebrated Chanukah in Oxford Street and had to flee. The BBC chose falsely to report that they had uttered an "anti-Muslim" slur. Jews had to carry out our own forensic analysis of the supposed 'slur' to prove the BBC's claim the children said "dirty Muslims" was entirely false. It was Hebrew for "call someone, it’s urgent."

The BBC was reluctantly shamed into a begrudging apology and Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, found that the BBC had committed "significant editorial failings".
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Four months ago BBC Radio 4's flagship @BBCr4today programme aired an inflammatory interview with Iranian academic Sayed Mohammad Marandi. Introduced as a professor and former adviser to the Iranian government, Marandi launched an unchecked tirade, calling Israel a “genocidal regime,” accusing the UK of supporting a “holocaust in Gaza,” and justifying resistance against Israel as the "only solution."

The BBC didn't challenge his racist nonsense, which included claims of Israeli "ethno-supremacism."

The BBC later issued a partial apology, admitting they should have "continued to challenge his language" during the live interview but stood by their decision to include him for a "broad perspective."
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In 2021, in a show I was on, the BBC falsely claimed Israel was responsible for vaccinating Palestinians against COVID19 under the terms of the Oslo Accords. I immediately called this out, clarifying that responsibility lay with the Palestinian Authority under the principles of self-determination outlined in the Accords.

Eventually, following viewer complaints, they BBC issued a public retraction, admitting the lie. They acknowledged the Oslo Accords explicitly give the Palestinian Authority oversight of public health.
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Last Ocotber, on Radio 4, Miriam Margolyes described Fagin as “Jewish and vile” on Radio 4’s Front Row, adding: “I didn’t know Jews like that then. Sadly, I do now.” The audience laughed and Kirsty Wark, the presenter, said nothing. The BBC edited out the remark from iPlayer after I and others complained, admitting she “should have been challenged.” But the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit eventually rejected allegations of antisemitism, claiming the comment wasn’t racist after all, since Margolyes is Jewish.
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Perhaps they should be called the IRBC — The Islamic Revolutionary Broadcasting Corporation. After all, they broke off from all other news to broadcast 40 minutes of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s sermon while leading Friday prayers. At one point the BBC's breaking news headline text said Hamas’s October 7 massacre was “logical and legal”. At least it's consistent with the BBC's refusal to call the brutal massacre terrorism.
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The BBC knows it has a problem. Only 10 months ago, the Director General of the corporation felt it was bad enough to write to ALL his own staff and warn them of "the importance of kindness" and not to be antisemitic.

However, the corporation shows no self awareness: never does it seem to consider the many ways in which it fosters anti-Jewish opinion and action nationally and internationally thanks to its own bias and antisemitism.
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And the BBC isn't just providing a platform and voice for Jew-haters in English. It's been doing so in Arabic for ages. Here's my 2021 investigation into what they do in Arabic using British license-fee payers' money.

It shows many examples of them systematically downplaying terror attacks on Israelis, repeatedly using Hamas-inspired language, showcasing extreme views without challenge, and publishing a map in which Israel was erased.

They told me then "BBC Arabic shares exactly the same principles of accuracy and impartiality as BBC News in English." So it seems...
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Then there's the time Jeremy Bowen (paid between £240,000 - £244,999) claimed Israel had "flattened" a hospital In Gaza, but the hospital wasn't flattened, and the Israelis didn't bomb it, Palestinians did. So wrong on every count. When challenged, he said "I was wrong on that… ummm, but… I don't feel particularly bad about that." He's their International Editor, so hardly a rookie reporter.
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Bowen is not a newcomer to this game. Back in 2009 he faced calls to quit after he was found to have breached the BBC's rules on accuracy and impartiality in two reports about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

His reference to "Zionism's innate instinct to push out the frontier" breached BBC guidelines, and even the BBC found his suggestion that Israel was "in defiance of everyone's interpretation of international law except its own" was "imprecise".
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Bowen isn't the only BBC blowhard to be getting this stuff wrong. The BBC’s "Chief international Correspondent" Lyse Doucet (paid between £205,000 - £209,999) tried gaslighting us Jews, too, just a few weeks ago. She stood in Damascus and told us: "Jewish, Muslim, Christian, they're all here, they want to believe they have a space now..."

Newsflash, Lyse: in the 1940s Syria's Jewish population stood at around 40,000. Today there are estimated to be only three Jews in the country.
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I could keep doing this all day and still have more examples for you. Yet the BBC constantly tells Jews (and non-Jews) who complain that we're wrong. They know better than us. I guess they think we're just being sneaky and manipulative when we complain about this stuff and we have some nefarious ulterior motive.
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If you're interested in this topic, feel free to follow me. And you should also follow the excellent work of @CAMERAorg and @mishtal among others. Or just watch the BBC yourself and keep an open mind: they do this constantly, so you can spot your own examples and add them to the ever growing list.
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