BBC Arabic Service “Boosts Terrorists”

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Via The JC: British solicitor Trevor Asserson, who set up a website to monitor the BBC’s coverage of events in the Middle East, released a report on Wednesday claiming that the BBC’s Arabic-language radio programing provided a platform for terrorist organizations who hate Israel. Asserson presented his report, “The BBC Goes Native,” co-written by Deena Pinson, at a conference held by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Asserson studied the Arabic radio station’s main news-analysis program, Hadeeth Al-Sa’a, over a four-week period during the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbullah. “We identified 17 spokespeople for Hizbullah and Iran among program

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Reuters Mistake Triggers Israel “Holocaust” Libel

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Via National Review: A Reuters mistranslation of remarks by Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai this morning has triggered an international news libel against Israel. Among the news outlets jumping on the bandwagon are those that have previously been accused of deliberately attempting to stir up anti-Semitism through false and inflammatory coverage of Israel. They include several British-owned or British-based media. For example, at the present time the following headlines can be found on these websites: Reuters: Israel minister warns Palestinians of “shoah” The BBC: Israel warns of Gaza ‘holocaust’ The Guardian: Israeli minister warns of Palestinian ‘holocaust’ The Times

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Fundamentalists Threaten Israel from All Sides

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The Telgraph is too cowardly to use the term “Muslim”, so they choose the term “Fundamentalist”. Cowardly pukes. From Fundamentalists Threaten Israel from All Sides: Hamas makes no secret of the fact that it now receives most of its financial and military support from Iran. The Iranian government signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hamas leadership in June last year in which it agreed to fund the militant group to the tune of £400 million. In addition, Iran provides military training to Hamas members by sending them to camps in Lebanon and Iran run by the elite Quds Force

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BBC Apologizes to Muslims for Stating Jerusalem as Capital of Israel

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It is outrageous to the extreme that the global community would dare to tell a sovereign nation what is – or is not – its capital. What a bunch of pandering cowards the BBC is. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) issued an apology this week to Muslims for having referred to Jerusalem as being the capital of Israel in one of its broadcasts. The apology came in response to complaints by four Muslim-British organizations:Arab Media Watch,Muslim Public Affairs Committee,Friends of Al-Aksa and,the Institute of Islamic Political Thought. The reference to Jerusalem that drew the complaints occurred on March 24th, when

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Who is Julie Burchill?

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From RadioRote: The maverick British journalist Julie Burchill, who is a veritable household name in the UK, has decided to quit ‘The Guardian’ because of what she perceives as its biased views on Israel. As you might have heard, I’m leaving the Guardian next year for the Times, having finally been convinced that my evil populist philistinism has no place in a publication read by so many all-round, top-drawer plaster saints. (Well, that and the massive wad they’ve waved at me.) Once there, I will compose as many love letters to the likes of Mr Murdoch and Pres Bush as

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