By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
The BBC is once again in the spotlight for its anti-Israel bias, this time being forced Monday to investigate one of its own reporters after an Israeli media watchdog group discovered a background of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel tweets.
Jerusalem-based Honest Reporting published a string of social media postings by BBC reporter Tala Halawa, including her support for Hitler’s quest to commit genocide against the Jewish people.
The vile comments were first found by the anonymous British Twitter account GnasherJew, known for exposing anti-Semitism, including many incidents in Britain’s Labor Party.
“After a horrendously slanted video report titled ‘Israel-Gaza: What Bella Hadid’s Stance Says About Changing Conversations’ was posted to the BBC website, it emerged that the presenter, Tala Halawa, has made a number of clearly anti-Semitic and genocidal statements on social media,” said Honest Reporting researcher Emanuel Miller.
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May 11, 2021
To read any of the reports by The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, Washington Post, Reuters or Associated Press, one could be forgiven for thinking that Palestinian worshipers were severely mistreated by heavy-handed Israeli security forces.
On Friday, thousands of Muslim worshippers chanted violent slogans while rioting on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, also location of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest place. Over 200 Palestinians and 17 Israeli police officers were wounded in resulting clashes.
But that wasn’t how the media reported the story.
To read any of the reports by
Such a representation is not only a distortion of the facts, but also blurs the bigger picture.
Emanuel Miller is a Jerusalem-based writer who has previously worked for the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel, and helped establish the English media department of My Truth, an organization that documents the experiences of Israeli soldiers while facing an immoral, cynical enemy. He regularly speaks about Israel, media bias, and Israel s geopolitical complexities to audiences including Birthright groups, student leaders visiting Israel, and for those seeking to get a more nuanced understanding of Israel.
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