Maggie Dods

This framing is now happening in almost every @BBCNews story which involves antisemitism. This one is about the @metpoliceuk asking ‘pro Palestine’ protestors not to stage a celebration march around London universities on October 7. What is missing is the other side of this apparent expression of fact and that is where BBC journalist bias comes in. 🔴 when the number of war dead is listed the 640 IDF soldiers who were killed mainly in Gaza since October 7 are not mentioned. This is a serious omission. 🔴 when they talk about the number of dead in Gaza they have stopped saying that the figures do not differentiate between Hamas fighters and civilians. 🔴 when they talk about the independent UN report finding ‘genocide’ they do not say that this report is not only controversial because of who it was written by but also because the UN has not accepted it. Only the ICJ can make a finding of genocide which it has not done. 🔴 when they quote ‘the International Association of Genocide Scholars’ they do not discuss how anyone (you don’t even have to be a scholar, let alone a specialist) could join this organisation and the vote was taken only by 28 per cent of the organisation. Or that 6000 genocide experts and scholars have denied the finding. I say this as someone who has worked closely with the BBC for many years: this bias is making life more dangerous for Jews. This is not neutral reporting. This is antisemitic activism.