Is the BBC anti Israel and/or antisemitic

@Newbutoldfather no don’t see anyone as opposites or unequals etc it was very much a generalised comment, maybe I should have written it as some Jewish or Muslim people or parts of society etc.

Scirocco · Today 12:51

MrsSkylerWhite · Today 12:36
BBC can’t win, can it?
They could. They could choose to give equal weight to reporting, show the human costs with compassion and consideration, use equally respectful language. They choose not to

The documentary on BBC about Nova Music Festival and the aftermath was all of those things.

I would say you read it as bias leaning because of your connection to Israel through your religion. Same as I think if a Muslim wrote your post I think overwhelmingly they would be saying the bbc are being bias against Muslims. I think when you have more of a connection your judgement can be clouded, so you read into more detail or question the intention as it seems an attack against your religion etc. As someone neutral I don’t think they are being biased at all and are actually leaning more pro Israel but that’s my opinion

They could. They could choose to give equal weight to reporting, show the human costs with compassion and consideration, use equally respectful language. They choose not to.

My experience of British media is that it tends to be significantly biased against Muslims and creates narratives that skew perceptions of Muslims.

For example, the coverage of the death of Nasrallah has shown footage of sad and angry (mostly) men who are unhappy that he's dead, and talked about how this increases the threat posed to people by predominantly Muslim groups. This reinforces a narrative of Muslims presenting a threat and supporting terror. There was minimal coverage of the far more complex range of experiences that people have actually had - including relief, fear of what comes next, grief for people harmed, even happiness that he and others are gone.

I think, like many Western media sources, there is a tendency to criticise and stereotype the 'other', while emphasising how great Western interventions were/are. For example, talking about how it was US bombs that 'got him', while conveniently skipping over that bit while reporting on the children in critical condition in paediatric intensive care. I don't think the BBC or other sources treat Israel as they would the US or UK, but Israel is not alone in that - people with loved ones dying in Palestine and now Lebanon barely get their loved ones' deaths mentioned as statistics.

BBC can’t win, can it?

The BBC have also been accused of being 'pro-Israel' and minimising the damage inflicted on the Palestinians. They have been accused of bias by commentators on both sides of this conflict which is probably true to some extent.

BBC has been criticised for the way they’ve described many of Israel’s actions and being quite anti Palestinian as well.

there is no unbiased newspaper

Thank you for the article. It's obviously a very divisive issue but the article says this:

The Centre for Media Monitoring, set up by the Muslim Council of Britain, published its own report in March. It listed examples where it accused the BBC of failing to properly challenge “Israeli claims” about the war; of using more “emotive” terms to describe Israeli compared to Palestinian casualties; and of devoting more coverage to antisemitism than to Islamophobia.

David Jordan, the BBC director of editorial policy, told MPs at the time that complaints were evenly split, noting: “We had just under 4,000 people complaining that our … coverage was biased against Israel and over 4,000 that it was biased in favour.”

So it seems as though both sides are accusing the BBC of bias which can be interpreted as they're somewhere in the middle.

This.
BBC are absolutely biased.

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Remember this is about BBC bias only, not your overall view on Israel or the ‘Axis of Resistance’.
Good luck with that. I'll give it until the fifth post.

All I know for sure is that pretty well everyone on the left in politics is convinced that the BBC is in the pocket of the Tory party, and everyone on the right is convinced that the BBC is staffed exclusively by woke lefty activists who want the UK to be taken over by a coalition of hostile foreign powers as soon as possible. Simply on that basis I think they're probably doing a pretty good job navigating between the two. I don't know of any other news organisation that is as transparent about how it operates or as able to critique itself.

Everyone with a position on any (geo-)political issue has confirmation biases and will feel uncomfortable when opposing views, or neutral views that include things that they have chosen to ignore, are put in front of them. This goes for all sides in any conflict. It helps keep us all honest. I'm a huge supporter of Ukraine, but I know that there is corruption there too and I'm glad the BBC reports on it sometimes.

They say what they see. Isreal should stop bombing the shit out of civilians all over the place then whining when it's talked about, and god forbid, objected to.

They report what they see.

Orla Guerin was reporting from a hospital in Beirut last night. Child with brain damage from Israeli rocket.

Should they not report what they see?