Why would the BBC operate as an anti-Israel propaganda parastatal?

By Ezra Ben-Shalom

1 February 2010

Often, crime escapes public notice the most when it occurs in plain sight of everyone. Likewise, when a guilty party produces a near-infinite mountain of evidence, sometimes the sheer complexity of the ensemble offers an escape window, allowing the culprit to demand of the accuser, “Have you even analyzed all of the material? No? Then how can you accuse?”

Despite this excuse for its Middle East coverage, the BBC clearly espouses a radical pro-Palestinian, if not martyr-commemorating, position. To get a snapshot of the BBC's position on the Jewish State, just refer to, well, their snapshot overview, which they call their expert “Country Profile”.

Now, the BBC's web host has sufficient space for the news organization to publish a separate “Country Profile” for each of nineteen independent Muslim states, counting only the ones in the “Middle East” sub-section of the BBC site.

Unfortunately for the Jewish people, the hosting space apparently got tight when time came to upload the “Profile” for the Children of Israel. Indeed, space must have proved unexpectedly short; the story of Israel could not be noted outside of the prism of the Palestinian perspective. Surely with regret, the BBC would not allow Israel to exist as an independent and sovereign Jewish State, at least not within the “Country Profile” section of its site.

Enter “Israel and Palestinian territories [sic]”, a fictitious entity to which the BBC concedes a “Country Profile”:

Summary of 1^st paragraph of the “Overview” : Israel and surrounding states had many wars. Many Palestinians were displaced.

Summary of 2^nd paragraph of the “Overview” : Palestinians have had to live under Jewish Occupation for many decades. The International Community considers Jewish presence in disputed territories to be verboten and illegal.

Summary of 3^rd paragraph of the “Overview” : Israel finally retreated from Gaza; Hamas took over. Israel has waged a strangulating blockade of the Palestinians there ever since.

What the BBC includes in this rifle-butt blow to the Jewish State hardly compares to what they omit. By depriving Israel of its own “Profile”, the BBC facilitates its self-assigned task of ignoring Israel's real, pertinent background information:

In 1947, the U.N. traced boundaries for the Jewish State providing for small and indefensible territories, hardly visible on a map.

The Jews accepted their trivial allotment of land; however, the surrounding Arab states decided to kill them and advised the Arab civilians in the land to evacuate the area until the “work” was done. However, the Jews resisted and proved victorious in that war, as well as in subsequent defensive wars of survival.

The people that the BBC refers to as “Jewish setters” are actually no more than five million peace-loving Jews on a small coastal strip, surrounded by hundreds of millions of largely hostile and intolerant Muslims. These few Jews proudly continue 3,000+ years of continuous presence, as recorded by one of the world's most remarkable collections of written and archaelogical heritage. Furthermore, Israelis celebrate their indigenous Hebrew culture, which flourishes within the context of a state that remains the region's only liberal democracy.

The BBC passes silently over the persecution and expulsion of Jews living in Arab states at the time the State of Israel declared its independence.

Of course, being Israel, the Jewish State has always given back almost all of the conquests which resulted from its wars against aggressive, génocidaire armies, even if Realpolitik dictated the imperative to hold onto these strategic lands.

Unfortunately, ever since their initial war of genocide against Israel in 1948, most Arabs have never recognized Israel. Aside from the governments of Egypt and Jordan, most other states in the region openly dream of and work toward a future without Israel in it. Thus, Arabs ensure that Jews live within "disputed" borders, helping to delegitimize the national aspirations of Israelis. The BBC seizes on the doubt created by undefined borders to label Jews as "settlers", as if the Hebrews living in their Eternal Homeland could be equated with Britons colonizing Rhodesia.

Sans surprise, the BBC “Profile” also never mentions that Arabs living in Israel have far more rights in Israel than they would in any Arab country, the most important among them being the right to grow up without nursing on Jew-bashing propagande génocidaire.

When a public news organization in a self-respecting European democracy turns its antennas, its Web site, and its broadcasts over to Jew-murdering Jihadists, people who teach their children that Jews are pigs, as evidenced by their school books, what can one say? Has the British government and its subsidiaries perpetrated one of the most reprehensible of all scandals upon the British people? Or has the population, perhaps already dumbed down to a certain extent by omnipresent state control and bureaucratic inefficiencies, simply swung in a bizarre anti-Jew, pro-Arab irredentist direction? Perhaps not all that bizarre in view of the history of the sojourn of Jews in the UK and in Europe?