How many reports can the BBC write about agitprop perpetrated by a group of political activists without making any effort to explain that group’s agenda?
That question remains open as the BBC once again published articles about the activities of ‘Palestine Action’ while failing to provide its audiences with any background information on that group.
On January 14th a report by Trystan Jones appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘London’ page under the headline ‘Six held over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange’.
The majority of Jones’ report simply recycles a statement put out by the Metropolitan Police concerning arrests made following an investigation by the Daily Express newspaper.
The sole reference in Jones’ report to the group behind that plot reads as follows:
“The Met Police said information suggested activists from the Palestine Action group were intending to target the exchange on Monday.”
On January 15th another report was published on the same page of the BBC News website under the headline ‘Man in court over plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange’.
“A man has appeared in court charged in relation to plans to disrupt the London Stock Exchange.
Sean Middleborough, 31, of Woodlee Road, Liverpool, appeared at Wirral Magistrates’ Court charged with conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.”
Once again, readers found no information about the agenda of the group behind that planned stunt and no explanation of why it was intending to target that particular location.
“Activists from the group Palestine Action were allegedly plotting to target the London Stock Exchange on Monday, the Met said.”
In February 2021 CAMERA UK noted that:
“As its ‘constitution’ clearly states, ‘Palestine Action’ deals exclusively in the delegitimisation of one country alone. [emphasis in the original]
“Palestine Action seeks to bring together individuals and groups to use diverse tactics to end UK complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against the Palestinians. We demand real and dynamic action to end the complicity of organisations that support Israeli colonialism.
We demand all institutions end their links with Israeli apartheid until Israel stops its violations of Palestinian rights by:
1) Ending the occupation, the Siege of Gaza and dismantling the Wall
2) Ending systematic discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel
3) Recognising and implementing the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes
We are tired of the UK profiting from the colonisation of Palestine. We are tired of arms companies operating in the same streets that we live in. We are tired of the lack of repercussions for their actions. And this is exactly what we plan to change. Our actions expose, disrupt and destroy the companies which profit off the death and destruction of the Palestinian people and other oppressed groups across the world.
We view the Israeli occupation of Palestine as starting in 1948, and coming out of a history of colonial oppression. The Israeli state is a colonial and apartheid state, and so we view the struggle for Palestinian liberation as an anti-colonial struggle.”
Since then the BBC has continued to report on some of that group’s propaganda stunts but has serially refrained from informing its audiences about the antisemitic agenda of ‘Palestine Action’ which negates Israel’s existence.
BBC EAST MIDLANDS FAILS TO DELIVER IN FOUR REPORTS ON ANTI-ISRAEL EXTREMIST GROUP
SUMMARY OF BBC NEWS WEBSITE PORTRAYAL OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – AUGUST 2021
BBC NEWS AGAIN FAILS TO TELL THE FULL STORY ABOUT EXTREMIST ‘PROTESTERS’
BBC EAST MIDLANDS FAILS YET AGAIN IN ‘PALESTINE ACTION’ REPORT
BBC NEWS AIRBRUSHES EXTREMIST GROUP FROM VANDALISM STORY
In these two latest articles we once again see that the BBC chooses to airbrush extremism and hinder audience understanding by failing to provide the full range of information about the agenda of the group behind the agitprop it reports.
