Is the BBC anti Israel and/or antisemitic

Interesting as I would argue the opposite.

If you say anything against Israel you are anti-semitic so following that argument, then yes they are.

No I usually take any media with their editorial viewpoint in mind

The BBC is different however as it is by licence fee and also claims to be impartial unlike others

Although I do find the world service better and if it were subscription I’d likely pay for that and R6 music

Is there any other media organisation which you think does?

Can you bring any actual evidence of these claims?

I don’t think it does try that hard tbh

No organisation will ever be totally impartial. But the BBC tries a lot harder to be impartial than any other news organisation.

I'm not Jewish nor particularly pro Israel but yes, BBC is clearly biased against Israel (and in general has become more overtly left wing). They are no longer impartial and the licence fee should be scrapped.

Thanks for the article. They seem to have moved very hard right in the last few years though they still had prominent left wing writers who have now resigned. They have been found guilty of over 40 breaches in their reporting with several journalists simply making things up. Not knowing who owns them hardly helps.

Well, yes. It's been making stuff up for a while.

Amongst many others was this by Luke Akehurst, former Israel lobbyist & current leading light of the JLM (although not Jewish himself)

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/press-regulator-finds-jewish-chronicle-guilty-of-multiple-breaches-of-editors-code/

Hasn't the JC been found to be making stuff up about the conflict?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnn153zg1o.amp

So Robbie Gibb, the front for the owners of the Jewish Chronicle, who sits on the board at the BBC and has responsibility for impartiality (he's the one who tried to block appointments on political grounds) is somehow overseeing anti-Israel bias in their news?

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jewish-chronicle-scandal-editor-robbie-gibb-b2613454.html

Bear in mind I didn't vote because I believe the BBC is biased in general. There was no option for that

It doesn't matter what you think, or what a poll suggests, if the actual evidenced research suggests otherwise. For all we know it could be Team Jorge or the Israeli-Egyptian bot farms at work again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Jorge

It was a very reasonable question to ask as, for me, I'd already seen how the BBC's news coverage could be slanted. Their reporting of the second Gulf war became very Gung Ho once the conflict actually started and the coverage of Corbyn convinced me that BBC news could, if it wished, dismiss objectivity and follow an agenda.
As for the current conflict, I think with one or two exceptions, it's been pretty fair in that it's done its best to outline the horrors and their perpetrators. In addition to that it has attempted to give context. Its analysis has also, on the whole, been impartial, though there have been a few occasions when I have questioned this.

Just last week there was the headline on a Bowen piece ( now removed) that said West are powerless to influence Israel (or words to that effect ) which I believe to be a falsehood as it implied that we should just shrug our shoulders and let them get on with whatever they want. The west isn't "powerless".
Apart from that, Bowen has been OK. a bit waffly at times but generally gets it right. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he speaks arabic, which would be a hindrance.

It's very disturbing though, that Journalists have not been allowed into Gaza without being under strict supervision and disgraceful that so many journalists have been targeted and worrying that Al Jazeera has been prevented from having journalists in Israel. I know there's a war going on, but people might think that Israel has got something(s) to hide.

Yes there have. They've found their news to be biased in favour of Israel, as I referenced earlier.

They've also been found to favour Conservatives, Eurosceptics & Business.

https://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-how-biased-is-the-bbc-17028

Also, found biased against Corbyn in both Birbeck and LSE studies. https://theconversation.com/media-bias-against-jeremy-corbyn-shows-how-politicised-reporting-has-become-71593

It's pretty obvious that perception and reality are two very different things, as evidenced by the results in the poll in this thread.

I said theres a difference between caring about civilians and mealy mouthed excusing of terrorism.

I didn’t say everyone on the left I said so many.

It’s like Iran, that time during the revolution where the communist got into bed with the Islamists and then got murdered by them. Theres a naivity on the part of much of the left is astounding. If these groups were christians they would have no problem identifying them as extremists, if the were Jewish, no problem as identifying them as extremist, present them with hamas, hezbollah and the houthis and they turn a blind eye to absolutely everything they do.

“In Yad Vashem’s Hall of Names, images of the dead. Young soldiers troop in to share in the binding tragedy of the Jewish people. The state of Israel is now a regional power. For decades, it has occupied Palestinian territories. But some here will always see their nation through the prism of persecution and survival.”

I'm struggling to find an untruth in that quote.

It says they have a different opinion to you.
From the results so far, the majority think the BBC is balanced.
38% think BBC is biased against Israel
22% think BBC is biased pro Israel

Very occasionally the BBC World Service will have some balanced reporting but as a whole the institution is to Jewish people and Israel as the Metropolitan Police are to people of colour.

@Newbutoldfather , 62% believe that the BBC are either balanced in their reporting of Israel or positively biased in favour of Israel. What a joke! The BBC has been investigated in this respect and found to be biased AGAINST Israel. What does this say about the prejudice of that 62%?

I think there is adequate coverage of both perspectives. Part of the problem is that some of the far right Israeli government/IDF spokespeople come across so incredibly badly that they paint Israel in a very negative light, and the BBC probably gets blamed for the negative portrayal.

They also said lefties .. isn’t that generalising a bit too much ?