BBC is Practising an Anti-Israel Bias

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Simon Wiesenthal Center’s head says ‘months of intense debate and discussion’ preceded ranking; cites alleged biased reporting, antisemitic staff.

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The BBC has been branded antisemitic by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and placed third on its annual “Global Antisemitism Top Ten” list, according to a Sunday report.

First and second place went to Iran and the Gaza-based Hamas terror group, respectively.

The head of the organization, Marvin Hier, told the Daily Mail that “people might be surprised to see the BBC on our list, but the decision to place the BBC at No. 3 came after months of intense debate and discussion.”

“We believe the BBC has been guilty of several incidences of antisemitism during the past year,” he said.

“People might assume we would put neo-Nazi groups on our list,” Hier told the paper, “but the BBC is there because when a globally recognized organization allows antisemitism to creep into its reporting, it makes it all the more insidious and dangerous.”

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs 

The BBC Ignores 99 Percent of Attacks on Israelis. - Jan Shure (Jewish Chronicle-UK)

There were 189 terror incidents against Israelis in June - more than six per day. These included 117 attacks with petrol bombs, 42 with pipe bombs, 16 arson attacks, 11 shootings and two stabbings. There was also a rocket attack directed at the city of Ashkelon.

 The BBC failed to report almost any of these, though it was very quick to record injuries or fatalities which result from Israel's counter-measures.

 BBC News reported just 1% of the terror attacks against Israelis, but it reported 89% of the resulting actions by Israel.  

 Few aspects of the BBC's editorial stance better illustrate its role in fanning the flames of anti-Israel feeling - and thus, indirectly, fanning the flames of anti-Semitism.

This cavernous imbalance in reporting damages Israel and harms Jews, because of the blowback on Jewish communities.

That Israelis experienced more than six terror incidents per day in June is the kind of context that is vital to enable BBC viewers to make a fair judgement on Israeli actions.

 Its omission massively manipulates reality in favour of Israel's enemies. That is immoral.

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Biden Scraps Israeli Flag in East Jerusalem

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For the full Article By Callie Patteson From NEW YORK POST 15-7-2022 - https://tinyurl.com/4y3yzje6

The Israeli flag was notably absent from President Biden’s limousine as he traveled to East Jerusalem Friday morning, a move critics said represented an insult to the Jewish state.

The removal of the Star of David flag — which was first reported by the Jerusalem Post — also undercut the administration’s insistence that Biden’s visit to the Augusta Victoria Hospital was not political in nature. The White House made the claim to justify turning down a request from the Israeli government that its officials be allowed to accompany Biden.

Since Biden’s arrival Wednesday, the presidential motorcade had flown the Israeli flag while traveling through Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, in keeping with traditional protocol. Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, recognized the latter city as Israel’s capital in 2017, and the current administration has not formally withdrawn that status.

On Thursday, the president said he was “honored to be back” in Jerusalem, which he described as the “capital of Israel” during a news conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid.

Later in the presser, Biden was asked about his trip to East Jerusalem, which has long been floated as the potential capital of a future Palestinian state.

“You’ll visit, tomorrow, East Jerusalem, and you won’t be accompanied by an Israeli official,” one reporter said. “Does this represent a change in your administration’s view regarding the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and if East Jerusalem is part of it?”

“The answer to your last question is no,” Biden answered, without elaborating.

Israel captured East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967 and formally annexed it in 1980. Successive governments have insisted that the entire city — sacred to Christians, Muslims and Jews alike — is part of Israeli territory and that partition cannot be part of peace talks with the Palestinians.

“Today’s pictures of his [Biden’s] limousine on its way to east Jerusalem, without the Israeli flag that has been flying at its helm until now, highlights the message he is trying to send; that the sovereignty of Jerusalem, Israel’s eternal capital, is on the table for negotiation,” Danny Danon, a member of the opposition Likud party and Israel’s former representative at the United Nations, said in a statement to the Jerusalem Post.

“On this, I say to the President; President Biden, this move only spreads false hopes and sows discord instead of peace,” Danon added. “Just as no leader would request that Washington or any world capital be divided, so too Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish people, will forever remain united.”

uring his trip, Biden has reiterated US support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling it the “best way” to ensure “a lasting negotiated peace.”

“Both states fully respecting the equal rights of their citizens; both people enjoying equal measures of freedom,” he said Thursday. “And any more that takes us further from that outcome — I believe — anything is detrimental to the long-term security of Israel.”

On Friday, the White House said Biden had insisted on the importance of negotiations to create an “independent, sovereign, viable and contiguous Palestinian state” during a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

However, Biden admitted to reporters following the meeting that “the ground is not ripe at this moment to restart negotiations.”

“I do believe in this moment, when Israel is improving relations with its neighbors throughout the region, we can harness that same momentum to reinvigorate the peace process between the Palestinian people and the Israelis,” he added.

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West Bank Security Fence - Israel's Lifesaver

Video Of The Week - Underground Barrier Stops Gazan Terrrorists - https://tinyurl.com/acrx3nvb

By HERB KEINON 9-7-2022

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Semantics matter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Is it the West Bank or Judea and Samaria? Are the areas Israel gained control over in the Six Day War “occupied” territories or “disputed” ones? Do Jews beyond the Green Line live in “settlements” or “communities?”

More often than not, the word selection reflects a worldview 

In the same vein, how one refers to the meandering fence built close to the Green Line at the height of the second intifada says much about a person’s politics. Call it the “separation barrier,” and you likely believe in a two-state solution and want to “separate” from the Palestinians. Call it the “security fence” or “security barrier”  and you likely see it as a defensive barrier meant to save lives.

Refer to it as the “Apartheid Wall,” and it is abundantly clear where you stand. Roger Waters calls it the apartheid wall, as does – most likely – the chairperson of Ben & Jerry’s board of directors.

Numbers are useful in deflating claims  and the numbers are straightforward.

There were more than 3,000 attacks that originated from Judea and Samaria from September 2000 until the end of 2006 that resulted in the deaths of 1,622 people killed inside the Green Line in terrorist attacks.

From 2007, when most of the existing fence was up, until today, he says there have been 141 attacks from Judea and Samaria inside Israel, that led to the killing of some 100 people.

Those numbers tell the whole tale. The fence wasn’t set up as a border or as a means of suppressing the Palestinians, but rather to save lives. And the numbers show it succeeded in fulfilling that objective.

The decision to build the fence was part of three pronged approach to the wave of terror.

The first prong was a military operation – Defensive Shield. This was an offensive military campaign that brought the IDF back into the Palestinian cities from which it had withdrawn under the Oslo accords.

The second prong was to prepare a security barrier as a defensive tool.

And the third prong was to prepare a political horizon, which culminated in a speech by then-president George W. Bush delivered at the end of June 2002, in which he said that if the Palestinians changed their leadership, reformed their institutions and fought error, then the US would work toward the creation of a two-state solution.

There were hardships , but great efforts were made to ease the hardships. Also, he notes, not one Palestinian home was demolished in building the barrier.

“The fence is only a temporary security route that will be changed the minute we sit and negotiate and agree on a border,” he says. “Israel has always said, even after negotiations with the Palestinians after the fence was built – at Annapolis [in 2007] – that the fence is not a border, but a defensive measure.

The fence, like the other obstacles, is a security measure. It does not establish a border, political or otherwise.”

Some 470 km. of the barrier has been erected. Various routes of the fence have been proposed, with the original route planned to be some 740 km. The route was modified several times over the years by the High Court of Justice following petitions from human rights groups representing Palestinians.

For most of its length, the barrier is a chain-linked fence with sensors, surveillance cameras, barbed wires and patrol roads. Only some 5% of the barrier is actually a 9-meter tall concrete wall, and most of that is in urban areas – such as Jerusalem – where a wall takes up much less space to build.

Tellingly, the mini-wave of terror earlier this year, during which 19 people were killed in six weeks starting in late March, led to a decision to repair the barrier where it had been damaged, and plug holes through which some of the terrorists who carried out those attacks moved across the Green Line.

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BDS Licked!!

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Lessons of Ben & Jerry's: Boycotting Israel isn't Low-Risk

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This past week the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever, made a major announcement effectively nullifying the 2021 decision by the board of Ben & Jerry’s to boycott Israel (and Palestinians) in the West Bank. But while this was absolutely the right economic and moral decision by Unilever, and really should have happened much sooner, it doesn’t mean the war, even over ice cream, is won.

The official response of Ben & Jerry’s again confirmed its opposition to its parent company’s decision, in a stunning display of hypocrisy. The ice cream brand wrote in a tweet, “We are aware of the Unilever announcement. While our parent company has taken this decision, we do not agree with it.... We continue to believe it is inconsistent with Ben & Jerry’s values for our ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”

Values?  Ben & Jerry’s sells ice cream, not defense technology. Its self-righteous statement also neglects the fact that both Israelis and Palestinians pay the price for the ridiculous policy of boycotting the West Bank. Even more absurd, Unilever operates in Iran, heavily in China, and as of April 2022 was still selling ice cream in Russia while Putin’s forces were committing war crimes on a daily basis.

Ben & Jerry’s has always presented itself as a progressive company, taking positions on many issues within the US, such as police conduct. But Ben & Jerry’s also openly supported the Iran deal – while being silent on the violent oppression of Iranian dissidents.

The company hasn’t issued any statement of condemnation or boycott of China for its ethnic cleansing of Uighur Muslims, its illegal organ harvesting, its oppression of journalists, or its antidemocratic takeover of territories such as Hong Kong. In fact, the company sells ice cream in China. Most recently, Unilever even invested $112 million in a new ice cream factory in China.

Why?  Because Unilever cannot risk upsetting the Chinese Communist Party with how deeply entangled they are. But Israel? Low risk, high social reward – at least in some progressive circles that believe Israel is the be-all and end-all of everything wrong with society.

What Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s have now learned, however, is that attempts to boycott Israel are not as low-risk as they may have thought.  In the months following Ben & Jerry’s announcement to boycott selling ice cream over the Green Line, lawsuits were filed over the illegal termination of their contract with Ben & Jerry’s Israel. Additionally, multiple US states, including New York and Illinois (where boycotting Israel is illegal), began divesting pension funds from Unilever in response. Unilever’s stock also paid a heavy price, dropping 25%.

And that is the most important lesson for companies considering taking similar steps to selectively target Israel: It is no longer low-risk to promote antisemitic ideologies in the name of social justice, nor should it be. The economic pressure on Unilever worked because it was forced to, literally, pay the price.

Unfortunately, this won’t be enough to stamp out the antisemitic sentiment behind the BDS movement and the attempts to sanitize and repackage Jew hatred by companies like Ben & Jerry’s. The ice cream manufacturer’s response to the entire ordeal demonstrates that it has learned nothing, and will continue to promote misleading ideas of what’s happening in Israel.

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