In recent years, one of the most common ways for BBC Arabic editors to keep their audience inside the echo chamber of Palestinian propaganda has been the service’s cultural programmes. From folk music to wildlife, equestrianism to local cuisine, human interest items emerge as an easy method of introducing hateful or violent perspectives, without the need to balance them with alternative views from the Israeli side.
British license fee payers are growing more impatient with BBC Arabic’s evident failure to challenge this choir of incitement where ’proper’ news is concerned. Culture programmes, on the other hand, are still a realm in which the BBC does not feel as pressured to include the broader context of the conflict to counter contributors who, for example, deny Jewish history or make unfounded speculations about Israelis.
Read the rest of CAMERA Arabic’s report at the Jewish News.
