#EndBBCBiasAgainstIsrael
Dear Secretary of State,
I am writing to you about the BBC.
As a licence payer, I am concerned about the BBC bias and the misreporting on Israel.
It is ironic that the BBC, which prides itself on top quality investigative journalism, has spent huge sums of licence payers’ money refusing to comply with FOI requests to publish the Balen report.
The report, commissioned in 2004 by the corporation, examined accusations of bias against Israel. Perhaps the reason it was not published is because bias was found, and that bias persists to this day.
There are many examples I could offer but for reasons of brevity I will mention just two.
In May 2021, the terror group Hamas launched thousands of rockets into Israel.
The conflict arose after Fatah had cancelled elections and the terror group Hamas sought to make political capital from that decision.
However, the JERUSALEM bureau of the BBC sought to frame the source of the conflict around Sheikh Jarrah, a decades long property dispute.
The BBC offered no historical analysis of Sheikh Jarrah and did not explain the connected issues of the elections and the dispute between Fatah and Hamas. Instead, they offered the following reports (information compiled by CAMERA-UK) that were factually inaccurate and centred around the Hamas terror group’s narrative:
https://camera-uk.org/2021/05/18/bbc-news-channel-confuses-viewers-on-sheikh-jarrah-property-dispute/
https://camera-uk.org/2021/07/01/bbc-ws-radios-newsday-does-ngo-report-churnalism/
https://camera-uk.org/2021/08/19/another-chapter-in-bbc-campaigning-on-silwan/
My second example is the RECKLESS reporting by the BBC’s Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen.
On 24 May he reported that seven children and one young adult were killed by an air strike.
The IDF told the BBC before Bowen’s report aired that Israel did not fire the rocket. Despite this, and despite the evidence of three NGOs that confirmed that the deaths were caused by a Hamas rocket, the Bowen piece sought to equivocate and give viewers the opposite narrative.
Mr. Bowen referenced a piece of shrapnel given to him by a Palestinian source who suggested it was evidence that it was an Israeli strike, however, even though there was no verification of that shrapnel being related to that incident, Bowen used it to imply that Israel was responsible for the strike.
Here is a further dissection of his report provided by CAMERA-UK: https://camera-uk.org/2021/05/27/bbcs-jeremy-bowen-rewrites-the-beit-hanoun-shortfall-rocket-incident/
This BBC journalism that I have quoted is neither accurate or impartial, nor does it educate or inform its audience.
It is inaccurate, emotionally charged and irresponsible.
Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, recently stated, “The BBC is responsible for inciting hatred against Israel — not just in Britain but globally. Its agenda helps to ensure continued aggression against the Jewish State; fuels violence by Hamas and other terrorist groups; feeds the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement; encourages distorted condemnation of Israel by human rights groups and international bodies; and provides material to be exploited by activist university professors and students.
“All of this not only seriously harms the reputation of the State of Israel and stimulates antisemitism around the world, it also worsens the suffering of Palestinians by uncritical coverage of the leadership that is responsible for their plight.”
He concludes, “There is little likelihood, without firm intervention by the British government, that the BBC will relinquish its leadership of the global anti-Israel movement that has contributed to so much suffering, misery and bloodshed. "
See Colonel Kemp’s full article here: https://richard-kemp.com/bbc-leading-the-world-against-israel/
The BBC is bound to provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.
The examples I have provided demonstrate that the BBC does not do that.
UK taxpayers should not be expected to fund a public news organisation that has partial views.
When you have your discussions with BBC management about the corporation’s future, can you please raise these matters with them and seek answers.
I have copied this letter to my constituency MP.
Yours sincerely,
MR & MRS SOLOMON-OLUWASEYI ADELEYE & FAMILY
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