The August 18th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘World Have Your Say’ included an item about “the Israeli columnist who’s decided it’s time to call Israel an ‘apartheid’ society”. We will be discussing that programme in a future article but in this one we will take a look at the related post on the ‘World Have Your Say’ Facebook account on the same day.
As a reminder – the BBC uses social media and discussion boards as part of its interpretation of the public purpose remit titled ‘Global Outlook’, according to which it will “[e]nable individuals to participate in the global debate on significant international issues”.
“BBC Trust: “The BBC should inform conversation and debate, providing forums where its international audiences can debate issues they find important.””
The WHYS Facebook post the following question:”Apartheid”: right or wrong word?
![WHYS FB main](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-main.png)
Obviously anticipating the type of offensive comments not infrequently seen when Israel-related topics appear on such BBC discussion boards (see examples in the related articles below), the first comment on that post was posted by WHYS itself:
![WHYS FB warning](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-warning.png)
Below are examples of some of the comments the WHYS moderators apparently did not consider “abusive or inappropriate” seeing as they were left standing on the thread.
![WHYS FB c1](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c1.png)
![WHYS FB c10](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c10.png)
![WHYS FB c11](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c11.png)
![WHYS FB c12](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c12.png)
‘Powerful’ and ‘influential’ Jews:
![WHYS FB c13](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c13.png)
![WHYS FB c14](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c14.png)
![WHYS FB c15](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c15.png)
‘Ethnic cleansing’:
![WHYS FB c16](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c16.png)
Promoting the elimination of Israel:
![WHYS FB c17](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c17.png)
Nazi analogy:
![WHYS FB c18](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c18.png)
![WHYS FB c19](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c19.png)
![WHYS FB c20](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c20.png)
‘Jews are pigs’:
![WHYS FB c3](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c3.png)
![WHYS FB C4](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c4.png)
![WHYS FB c5](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c5.png)
Special demands of the BBC’s Jewish journalists:
![WHYS FB c6](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c6.png)
Nazi analogy:
![WHYS FB c7](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c7.png)
Nazi analogy:
![WHYS FB c9](https://bbcwatchdot.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/whys-fb-c9.png)
Once again we see that defamatory falsehoods, racial abuse and antisemitic tropes pass BBC ‘moderation’ with no problem at all. Perhaps the BBC would like to explain to its funding public how that can be considered as contributing to its mission of ‘informing conversation and debate’.
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BBC WS WHYS initiates discussion of the apartheid trope, moderation fails
The August 18th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘World Have Your Say’ included an item about “the Israeli columnist who’s decided it’s time to call Israel an ‘apartheid’ society”. We will be discussing that programme in a future article but in this one we will take a look at the related post on the ‘World Have Your Say’ Facebook account on the same day.
As a reminder – the BBC uses social media and discussion boards as part of its interpretation of the public purpose remit titled ‘Global Outlook’, according to which it will “[e]nable individuals to participate in the global debate on significant international issues”.
“BBC Trust: “The BBC should inform conversation and debate, providing forums where its international audiences can debate issues they find important.””
The WHYS Facebook post the following question:”Apartheid”: right or wrong word?
Obviously anticipating the type of offensive comments not infrequently seen when Israel-related topics appear on such BBC discussion boards (see examples in the related articles below), the first comment on that post was posted by WHYS itself:
Below are examples of some of the comments the WHYS moderators apparently did not consider “abusive or inappropriate” seeing as they were left standing on the thread.
‘Powerful’ and ‘influential’ Jews:
‘Ethnic cleansing’:
Promoting the elimination of Israel:
Nazi analogy:
‘Jews are pigs’:
Special demands of the BBC’s Jewish journalists:
Nazi analogy:
Nazi analogy:
Once again we see that defamatory falsehoods, racial abuse and antisemitic tropes pass BBC ‘moderation’ with no problem at all. Perhaps the BBC would like to explain to its funding public how that can be considered as contributing to its mission of ‘informing conversation and debate’.
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Nazi analogies and ‘apartheid’ defamation on BBC World ‘Have Your Say’ Facebook account
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