A report published on the BBC News website’s ‘England’ and ‘Bradford’ pages on September 6th purports to inform readers about a legal case.
Titled “Pro-Palestine activists sentenced over protest”, that uncredited article tells BBC audiences that: [emphasis added]
“A group of pro-Palestine activists who staged a seven-hour protest on the roof of an aerospace and defence firm has avoided immediate jail sentences.
Earlier this year, the three women and one man were found guilty by a jury of causing almost £60,000 of criminal damage at Teledyne Defence and Space Ltd in Shipley in May 2024.
Sentencing them at Bradford Crown Court on Friday, three of the four were given suspended jail sentences, while the fourth was given a community order.”
The report also states:
“Passing sentence, Judge Smith said the four had been convicted by the jury of involvement in a concerted effort to seriously damage commercial premises.
“You were seeking to demonstrate your support for the Palestinian people. You sought to do so by committing serious criminal offences,” he told them.”
Notably, the BBC’s account does not inform readers that the group known as “the Bradford four” committed those acts of criminal damage on May 15th 2024 as part of a series of incidents “marking the Nakba” that were organised by the now proscribed group ‘Palestine Action’.
However, sixteen months earlier, on May 17th 2024, a journalist at BBC Yorkshire online had published the following report:
In other words, the writer of this latest report should have been capable of informing the BBC’s funding public that the four offenders that are its subject matter acted on behalf of an organisation that was proscribed in July. The failure to provide that relevant context – and to properly explain the anti-Israel agenda of ‘Palestine Action’ – will however not surprise anyone who has been following the BBC’s serial avoidance of reporting fully, accurately and impartially on that group over the past five years.
Related Articles:
WHY DOES BBC NEWS CONTINUE TO UNDER INFORM ON ‘PALESTINE ACTION’?
MORE UNCRITICAL BBC AMPLIFICATION FOR ISRAEL DELEGITIMISATION CAMPAIGNS
THE BBC’S SELECTIVE EDITORIAL POLICY ON ‘PALESTINE ACTION’ CONTINUES
