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For some reason, Ha’aretz has chosen to revisit the report that came out last year about how the BBC is too pro-Israel.

It came as something of a jag to the eyes, therefore, when an independent inquiry commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation’s board of governors criticized the BBC for turning a blind eye to the hardships of Palestinians under occupation. The panel, chaired by the president of the British Board of Film Classification, Sir Quentin Thomas, concluded that BBC coverage was marked by “failure to convey adequately the disparity in the Israeli and Palestinian experience, reflecting the fact that one side is in control and the other lives under occupation.” … “The portrayal of the BBC as independent and impartial public broadcaster is sadly misleading,” wrote online commentator Ghali Hassan. “The BBC is a global instrument of Zionist propaganda.

Which makes this as good a time as any to link to the Times Online article that out and out mocked the Board’s absurd conclusions. Listen, the BBC lies about Israel. There’s a useful, albeit truncated, catalog of mindbendingly insane anti-Israel bias.

But you really don’t have to be well-versed in BBC bias to get a sense for the degree to which they are institutionally anti-Israel. The BBC lies about Israel. When they’re not telling outright lies, they’re lying by omission. And even when they’re not lying by omission, they just can’t stop sounding anti-Israel. It’s a reflex. It goes all the way down.

References:
* Is the BBC too pro-Israel? Is The NY Times? [Ha'aretz]
* The BBC pro-Israeli? Is the Pope Jewish? [Times Online]
* Strange, Vaguely Anti-Israel BBC Headlines Make Them Seem Almost… Reflexively Anti-Israel [MR]
* The BBC Can’t Even Write Coherent Anti-Israel Propaganda [MR]
* Strange, Vaguely Anti-Israel BBC Headlines Make Them Seem Almost… Reflexively Anti-Israel [MR]

Previously:
* Reporting Palestinian War Crimes And Israeli Responses, The BBC Way
* No Seriously, You Blithering BBC Idiot, Explain to the Poor Sheltered Pope How Islam Works
* BBC Misleads in Article, Clarifies in Sidebar, Regarding Israeli Settlements