It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn, writes the BBC's World Affairs editor.

I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion.

Mods, feel free to remove if this is not newsy enough.

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
    29·
    1 year ago

    BBC news has a super Israel bias, … The UK will always pretend Israel can do no wrong because they created them.

    I went on the BBC’s news site just now and looked at the top stories from the middle-east.

    Here’s a BBC article which suggests that Egypt warned Israel days before Hamas struck, despite Netenyahu denying it:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67082047

    Here’s an article which features the video diary of a (crying) Palestinian girl. “Gaza: Children screamed in the street”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67077224

    Here’s another video. Title: “Gaza: ‘I wish I could be a normal child living with no war’”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-67058592

    Does the BBC have a ‘super Israel bias’?

    Or are you biased which makes you mistakenly think the BBC is ‘super’ biased in favour of Israel and claim the UK ‘will always pretend Israel can do no wrong’?

    • drekly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well that’s good, perhaps the guy having a go at them had an effect. There was literally nothing about the first counterattack shelling by Israel when it happened and I thought it was very strange.