{"id":1761,"date":"2018-11-25T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T09:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2018-11-25T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T10:01:28","slug":"bbc-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"BBC &#8211; Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a headline that was in the I News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/bbc-to-tackle-fake-news-in-new-project\/\">&#8216;BBC to tackle fake news in new project The BBC is launching a new project called Beyond Fake News<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>The arrogance of the BBC is staggering.\u00a0 As that story broke the BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-46190571\"> reported\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018More than 460 rockets have been fired into Israel by militants since Monday night, while Israeli aircraft have hit 160 militant targets in response.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Seven Palestinians, several of them militants, died in the strikes on Gaza, while a Palestinian civilian was killed in a rocket attack in southern Israel.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you read the full story you can sort out cause and effect.\u00a0 Israel sent in an under cover special forces unit into Gaza.\u00a0 They were discovered.\u00a0 There was a flare up with Hamas soldiers.\u00a0 Israel used air power and tanks in order to extract their soldiers.\u00a0 Seven Palestinians and one Israeli infiltrator were killed.\u00a0 Hamas fired rockets into Israel in response to the killings.\u00a0 Israel responded to the rockets by demolishing a number of buildings which it claims were Hamas and Islamic Jihad.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC appears incapable of saying that Israel initiated the violence and Hamas retaliated.\u00a0 The BBC states that Palestinians die as a result of Israeli attacks but Hamas rockets kill one person (a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank).<\/p>\n<p>The BBC repeats that Hamas does not recognise Israel\u2019s right to exist, but never states that Israel\u2019s occupation and settlements have made a Palestinian state impossible.<\/p>\n<p>BBC please note:-<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli occupied territories are illegally occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is the aggressor, stealing land and water and it is establishing an Apartheid regime.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli armed attack is not an \u2018incursion\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Israel refuses to recognise Palestinian borders or rights.<\/p>\n<p>Boycott Divestment and Sanctions of Israel was asked for by Palestinian civil society.<\/p>\n<p>Israel kills Palestinians,\u00a0 they did not die in an attack.<\/p>\n<p>BBC misreporting was specifically pointed out in a report called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Labour-anti-semitism-and-the-news-EXEC-SUM-FINAL-PROOFED.pdf\">\u2018Labour, Antisemitism and the News- A disinformation paradigm\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the BBC has refuses to adopt honest reporting on the oppression of the Palestinians, we should take their offer to help us identify fake news with a kilo sized packet of salt.\u00a0 Both the salt and BBC reports on Palestine are indigestible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a headline that was in the I News &#8216;BBC to tackle fake news in new project The BBC is launching a new project called Beyond Fake News&#8216;. The arrogance of the BBC is staggering.\u00a0 As that story broke the BBC reported\u00a0 \u2018More than 460 rockets have been fired into Israel by militants since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=1761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BBC &#8211; Bias<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dicks-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}