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Tuesday 30 November 2010

Complaining to the BBC about anti-Israel bias

Further to this from this earlier today I decided to make a formal complaint, not that I expect a particularly illuminating reply:
'I note that you report that :

'Israeli orthodox rabbi stirs up racism debate

From a pine-covered mountaintop in the far north of Israel, the Sea of Galilee is just visible through the mist below.

This is the idyllic setting for Tzfat, as it is known in Hebrew, or Safed, as Arabic-speakers call it, a holy place for Jews. It is said to have been founded by a son of Noah after the great flood.

In the past few weeks it has also become famous for a decree made by its chief rabbi who instructed residents not to rent rooms or houses to Israeli Arabs.'

And on and on and on.


Oddly I do not remember the BBC ever reporting on the Palestinian Authorities Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's statement pre the resumption of peace talks that:

"I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land,"


How come when a minor 'Chief Rabbi' makes a statement about non-Jews that at most will apply in one town in Israel, the BBC report the news, but when the head of the Palestinian Authority makes a similar but anti-Jews statement that affects the whole of the Palestinian Territories that is not deemed to be news?'

1 comment:

Davieboy said...

Thanks for taking the trouble. Of course you'll get nowhere, but at least you're doing something...