Israel & South Africa

A discussion on Biased-BBC set me thinking and I posted the following in the comments:

"Two groups of people can do no wrong in the eyes of the BBC: black South Africans and Palestinians. The former being the people whose cause so many of the BBC grew up demonstrating and organising boycotts for, the latter the people they have adopted as they need a cause after the "good guys" won in South Africa. The use of the phrase "apartheid state" to describe Israel is no accident, it helps bind the new cause to the old. As a result, two groups can do no right in the eyes of the BBC: white Afrikaners and Israelis."