BBC biased against Israel? C'est impossible!
Israeli aircraft bomb Gaza City, August 9, 2018 © Ahmed Zakot / Reuters
An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman left diplomatic niceties aside, heading straight to Twitter to accuse the BBC of lying in a story headlined “Israeli airstrikes ‘kill woman and baby.’”
Emmanuel Nahshon angrily tagged BBC World and informed them that his tweet constituted a “formal complaint by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.”
@EmmanuelNahshon
.@BBCWorld this is a formal complaint by @IsraelMFA .This title is a deliberate misrepresentation of reality ( that’s the polite equivalent of “ this is a LIE”, if you don’t get it). Israelis were targeted by Hamas and IDF acts to protect them.Change it IMMEDIATELY!!! @IsraelMFA
Nahshon was angry at what he perceived to be a lack of context because, while the headline used was not strictly false, he was upset that it didn’t explain that Israel’s airstrikes came in response to over 100 rockets being fired into southern Israel from the Gaza strip, injuring a number of civilians.
The BBC caved in to Nahshon's demand and changed the headline of the story.
Media Lens
@medialens
So, @BBCNews capitulated to @BoardofDeputies, thus:
1. Obfuscating the fact that *Israel* had killed a woman and toddler
2. Implying that Israel was merely 'retaliating' in response to attacks from Gaza (the standard Israeli narrative)
Shame on the BBC.https://twitter.com/boardofdeputies/status/1027447441438789637?s=21 …
Media Lens is a media watchdog that purports to hold media reporting to a higher standard, and yet, here, they chastise BBC for capitulating to Israel and actually reporting the facts. They seem more comfortable with only one side of a story being told. Not an effective way to be a watchdog.
Board of Deputies of British Jews
Since our complaint, @BBCNews has made its headline a bit better, but it’s still an inversion. Israel’s cities were struck by 150 rockets, sending tens of thousands in to shelters. Surely the headline should reflect this. #IsraelUnderAttack #StopBBCBias
The Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman is on his way to becoming the scourge of nervous headline writers everywhere with his Twitter tirades. He used the same method to hit out at CNN late last month, again demanding that a headline be rewritten.
Emmanuel Nahshon
Replying to @cnni
No @cnni !!! You got it wrong and not for the first time - an Israeli soldier was killed by #Hamas and #IDF retaliated, protecting its country and citizens against murderous terrorists. By misrepresenting the facts you manipulate against #Israel! @cnni- STOP YOUR MANIPULATION !
Of course, if MSM were not so antisemitic in their presentations they would not be so criticized. Nahshon is not asking for favouritism, just balance, something that is sorely missing and one of the main reasons why few people trust mainstream media anymore.
Nahshon’s main claim, often repeated, is that the Israeli Defense Force only ever strikes in retaliation and to suggest otherwise is a manipulation of the facts.
He told Ynetnews in July that: “We in the Foreign Ministry are on guard 24 hours a day. We would not let international media deliberately distort the events taking place in Israel and in our region. We will respond to every distorted headline and demand its immediate correction.”
When the United Nations overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning what it called Israel’s “use of any excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in June, Nahshon was back on Twitter to label the resolution “one-sided” and “anti-Israel.”
Are you, RT, suggesting that it was not one-sided and anti-Israel? Have there been any UN condemnations for Saudi Arabia's excessive and disproportionate use of force against Yemeni civilians. They have killed more civilians, especially children in the past 2 weeks than Israel has in the past 2 years. How then is it that Israel draws all the criticism and Saudi Arabia draws very little?
One rocket gets fired into Saudi Arabia and 50 people, mostly children are killed in retaliation. No condemnation from the UN or MSM. 150 rockets injure several Israelis, 2 civilians are killed in retaliation and the media goes nuts on Israel. Someone please explain to me how MSM is not a propaganda tool used to beat Israel over the head with.
One rocket gets fired into Saudi Arabia and 50 people, mostly children are killed in retaliation. No condemnation from the UN or MSM. 150 rockets injure several Israelis, 2 civilians are killed in retaliation and the media goes nuts on Israel. Someone please explain to me how MSM is not a propaganda tool used to beat Israel over the head with.
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