Jeremy Bowen’s comments, should they be accurate, breach BBC guidelines on multiple levels, and the BBC’s conduct on this issue suggest that his leadership is materially damaging the BBC’s commitment to impartiality. His position at the BBC is one of significant power, and the BBC response to his actions will tell us a huge amount about the BBC’s commitment to its own standards.
For the second time since August, CAMERA prompts an AP correction after the wire service falsely reported that Hamas' Ministry of Health most Gaza fatalities are women and children. The English and Spanish corrections appeared in more than 100 media outlets.
In a country that has seen rampant antisemitic attacks, historical and October 7th revisionism, British broadcasters have a duty not to use passive constructions that obfuscate responsibility. They also have a duty not to platform, without due diligence checks, those on the “Palestinian side” who openly support and eulogise the very terrorist groups who committed the October 7th atrocities. If Sky News obsessively coalesces around “the other side” narrative and offers Jewish voices no reprieve, must we conclude that it was never on the side of massacred Jews at all?
Writing in JNS, CAMERA's Tamar Sternthal examines the implications of the fact that AP has twice corrected in the last two months after falsely reporting that the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza has found most fatalities are women and children.
Less than 12 hours after the FlyDubai plane landed in Saudi Arabia, pundits began speculating how the plane hijacking attempt could benefit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli elections. The immediate pivot to electoral consequences stripped the humanity from the 180 passengers, most of them Israelis, who had just narrowly escaped death.
On the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre, MS NOW featured an op-ed by reporter Ayman Mohyeldin, who has a history of peddling antisemitic tropes, prominently at the top of its website.
The Sudanese and Congolese people deserve our attention, they deserve our respect, they deserve support for the free democracies that they want to build, they deserve western demand for regulation on the trades that fund their subjugation, and they deserve to be treated with every bit as much seriousness as the Palestinian people do.
Perhaps the true tragedy of the Sudanese and Congolese people is that the BBC can’t blame Jews for their pain.
Pilots are under new or renewed scrutiny following the FlyDubai attempted hijacking. Navi Pillay's co-genocide accuser, Chris Sidoti, makes stunning admissions regarding flaws in the Commission's report. IDF and Shin Bet raided two terror organization offices operating as illegal "charities" in Judea and Samaria.
Tom Fletcher and the United Nations are entitled to their frustration with the IDF. Their missions do not exactly align. Both sides are also operating in an environment with no real historical precedents and are learning as they go. But Amanpour never engaged with the misaligned institutional imperatives.
