How far does bbc impartially go?

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Saw Giles Peterson live with Jamz super nova (well, we missed her unfortunately.)

They fill Saturday afternoons one after the other every week on BBC 6 music. It was not a bbc event though.

He played beautiful song which I then realised was about Palestine. And it specifically included the phrases “from the river to the sea.”several times. Much cheering and whopping afterwards.

I’m just querying if bbc impartially extends to DJs playing publicly but in their own capacity as an artist.

Why just them. What about the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, etc, etc. There are lots of entities that think Israel are genocidal maniacs.

Who decided that the weight given to Hamas casualty figures is unjustifiable? From the dossier:

In this war, Hamas has based its figures both on hospital records and on “media reports” from the Gaza Government Media Office. Hamas, which runs the GMO, has never explained how this number has been calculated but the majority of deaths from “media reports” are women and children.

Despite growing concerns that this new methodology was unreliable, the UN and media outlets, including the BBC, reported that 70 per cent of all those killed in Gaza were women and children. Eventually the UN reviewed and revised down the figure to 52 per cent.

In the report to the EGSC, we were warned that for too long the BBC had given “unjustifiable weight” to the 70 per cent claim, even though concerns about its credibility were well known.

Every time Israel mowed the grass in Gaza the figures were verified as correct and when they were questioned in this war, Hamas published the Israeli ID numbers and names of all the victims but you want us to believe the Israeli propaganda about not targeting civilians which has been shown to be absolute nonsense. What if I told you there was a whistleblower who said that the IDF were eating the cats in Gaza. Just because it was written down, would you believe it on that alone.

@Twiglets1 Bias is never justified in a news organisation that makes a big thing out of being neutral and impartial.

People don't seem to understand that the BBC does not need to be neutral in reporting a conflict such as the war in Gaza or the war in Ukraine. The only subject where it has to remain totally neutral is in reporting UK politics.

Nobody is suggesting it should be writing pro-Russian stories when covering the war in Ukraine.

This is why there is no point debating with you @Thedawnchorus

You're always asking for evidence of this and that but never believe anything that isn't anti Israel so it's a waste of time really.

Make your mind up. You keep saying you don't want to interact with me, which is fine as far as I'm concerned, but then you keep coming back. Please make up your mind.

No one is expecting them to write pro- Israel stories there is just an expectation that they should report stories factually and without obvious bias. They don't need to be pro Israel or pro Palestinian and they are getting into trouble for not being more neutral in their reporting of Gaza (especially BBC Arabic) as well as other issues.

it’s not a non story when some Jewish people believe the phrase to be anti Semitic and history records it as originally being so.

that’s the whole point of the thread.

as a teacher I wouldn’t be touching a song such as that with a barge pole; imho someone who is regularly on the bbc shouldn’t in their sets.

totally different if he was an independent D.J.

Sorry I meant to quote your post. I meant that I couldn't be bothered to comment on each bullet point.

So I read your first paragraph. Obviously
I mean seriously yes you stated the bleeding obvious. Yes. So to be honest I didn't read the rest.

Some people will deny it no matter who writes the report, even though its proven true and every news outlet is running with it. Doesn't confirm the bias they hold so deny, deny, deflect, etc...... yawn